"It feels great, it was a long weekend of ups and downs but it's awesome to be able to close it out," McGlothlin told reporters after the win. "The first text I sent people today was telling them there were 71 players between me and $100k. I continued that all the way down to the final table, and was told not to come home until I get first place so ... I guess I get to go home now."
The $1,110 buy-in no-limit hold'em event drew a field of 672 entries across three starting flights, ending in a total prize pool of $650,340 for the $500,000 guaranteed event. The top 72 players all took home at least $2,146, and that's how many players returned for a long Day 2 that would see them play all the way down to a winner.
McGlothlin was one of six players to take more than 2 million in chips into the final table, but he stayed out of the way during the early going as Connor Burchwell fell in ninth place, and Kevin Stroud headed to the rail in eighth place. Lenny Pisano scored his second knockout in a row by sending Xayadeth Kayavong home in seventh place.
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