Millionaire Maker Champ Doomed

This past summer, the 2013 World Series of Poker $1,500 Millionaire Maker event attracted a massive field of 7,977 entries. In the end the $1.3 million first-place prize was captured by Jonathan Dimmig, a Buffalo, New York native that had relocated to Vegas in 2012 to pursue poker full time. Needless to say, it proved a fruitful expedition.

"It’s definitely changed my life for the future. I think it makes it a lot nicer for me options-wide to pick and choose what types of tournaments and cash games I want to play in," Dimmig told PokerNews in an interview after the win. "It’s not like I immediately jumped up into high stakes — I took some weeks off after the long grind of the summer — but I think I’ll be doing more traveling now and try to combine some vacations with good poker tournaments throughout the U.S. and maybe even the world eventually."

True to his word, Dimmig did do some traveling — to Melbourne, Australia for this 2014 WSOP APAC. Dimmig has been in attendance playing all of the preliminary event, but he was no doubt looking forward to making a splash in the Main Event. Unfortunately for him, any chance of that happening just came to an end courtesy of 2012 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia.

It happened when Dimmig opened for 525 from middle position and Sylvia called from the button. The big blind came along and three players saw a flop of . The big blind checked, Dimmig bet 700, and Sylvia raised to 2,050. The big blind folded, Dimming shoved all in for 9,025, and Sylvia wasted little time in making the call.

Sylvia:
Dimmig:

Sylvia had flopped top two pair while Dimmig opted to ride or die with his flush draw. The turn changed nothing, and neither did the river. Dimmig failed to find a heart and his 2014 WSOP APAC Main Event came to an end here in Level 2.