Will "The Thrill" Failla Accidentally Enters Wrong Tournament at NAPT and Wins It!
On Monday night, the 2024 NAPT Event #6: $360 NLH Unlimited Re-Entry attracted 89 players who rebought 17 times. The 106-entry field generated a prize pool of $26,700, and it was a familiar face coming out on top on Will “The Thrill” Failla, who claimed the Spadie trophy and $7,130 in prize money.
The real thrill of it all though is that Failla, who is in action in today's Day 1a field, didn’t even mean to play the tournament. He registered thinking it was a $360 satellite into the $5,300 NAPT Main Event.
"I bought into the $1,100 event but there were no more rebuys," he told PokerNews. "I didn't want to wait around until about six or seven for the next flight. I thought there was a satellite to it, and I said, 'What's the next thing going right now? The satellite?' And she goes, 'The $360.' So I give her the money and next thing I know I'm a half hour in, win a couple of hands, and a guy says, 'How many people are in the satellite?' Someone said what satellite? You're not in a satellite. Get the f*** out of here. He says, 'Will, you're in a $25K guaranteed tournament, not a satellite.'"
Failla continued: "I said, no f***ing way. I said, can you pick me up seriously? He said I played hands and had chips so they couldn't. I tried everything I could to go to dinner with my friends before the next $1,100 flight but I just couldn't lose a hand. It really f***ed up right in a way. I haven't played a $360 tournament since I was like four years old."
Event #6 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Will Failla | $7,130 |
| 2 | Veselin Dimitrov | $4,600 |
| 3 | Faramarz Ghorbani | $3,280 |
| 4 | Matej Gorba | $2,520 |
| 5 | Suhail Khader Khan | $2,020 |
| 6 | Richard Lee | $1,620 |
| 7 | Nick Jivkov | $1,290 |
| 8 | Fabian Hein | $1,030 |
Some others to cash the tournament were Liron Altman (9th - $830), Mahesh Lad (10th - $660), Vanderlai Alvino (11th - $660), Alberto Rodriguez (12th - $530), and Mandy Island (13th - $530).
