Zavorotnijs Wins Poker Masters Event No. 4
CardPlayer reported on October 17 that Zavorotnijs earned a $224,000 first-place prize, and a same-day Poker.org recap confirmed the result.
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According to an October 17 CardPlayer report, Vitalijs Zavorotnijs won the 2026 Poker Masters Event No. 4, earning a $224,000 first-place prize. A Poker.org post-event recap published on October 17 also confirmed that result. The event was held at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. For details on entry counts, the prize pool, hand histories, elimination order, and points changes, see the related event recaps.
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Vitalijs Zavorotnijs Wins Poker Masters Event No. 4; Nicholas Palma Takes Purple Jacket Points Lead
A final hand in which both players made full houses ended with Vitalijs Zavorotnijs winning Poker Masters Event No. 4.
Read story ↗- CardPlayer ↗ — CardPlayer, in an October 17, 2026 report, said the 2026 Poker Masters Event No. 4, a $10,000 buy-in event, had 80 entries, an $800,000 prize pool, and 12 paid places; Vitalijs Zavorotnijs won $224,000, Clemen Deng was runner-up for $144,000, Nicholas Palma third for $104,000, Dwan fourth for $76,000, and Andrew Lichtenberger fifth for $56,000. The article also documented hands involving Lichtenberger, Dwan, and Palma as well as the final hand of heads-up play, and listed Palma with 339 series points, Myles Mullaly with 274, and Zavorotnijs with 224 PGT points.
- Poker.org ↗ — Poker.org, in an October 17, 2026 recap, said the event ran October 15–16, drew 80 entries, and had five players remaining after Day 1, with Zavorotnijs leading; Palma came from a short stack to finish third, and the 104 points he earned in this event moved him past Myles Mullaly to the top of the Poker Masters Purple Jacket standings, with six events remaining in the series. The article also said the heads-up lead changed hands several times, and on the final hand both players made full houses, with Zavorotnijs winning.
Local reading context
Poker Masters is a high-buy-in series hosted by PokerGO at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas; the 2026 schedule includes multiple $10,000-level no-limit hold'em events. The series has a Purple Jacket points race, and event results also produce PGT points. The entries figure in coverage refers to registration count, not a confirmed count of unique participants; the event prize pool is formed by all entries and is a different concept from the payout to the champion or any other individual finish.
Source report dates: 2026-10-17