Sean Winter Takes 2026 Poker Masters Event #10 for $620,000 While Adrian Mateos Secures Purple Jacket

Sean Winter won Event #10: $51,000 NLH at the 2026 Poker Masters, earning $620,000 by defeating Sam Laskowitz heads-up at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Winter entered the final table third in chips among seven players. Adrian Mateos claimed the Purple Jacket as series champion after Jeremy Ausmus finished fourth, the last result that could have overtaken him.

The final day featured multiple coolers, a money bubble and several decisive confrontations. As first reported by PokerNews, the action underscored the high variance at stake in these $51,000 buy-in events.

Final Table Coolers and Eliminations

Dan Smith ran ace-king into Chris Brewer’s pocket aces early, then busted first when his ace-eight lost to ace-queen. Brewer later ran pocket kings into aces in a six-bet pot before committing with ace-jack against Ausmus’ pocket aces, finishing sixth without a cash.

Start-of-day leader Marius Gierse exited fifth after his top pair and gutshot straight draw ran into Laskowitz’s pocket queens. Ausmus committed pocket fives blind-versus-blind against Winter’s ace-king; an ace on turn and river sent him out fourth. Igor Yaroshevskyy finished third when his flopped bottom two pair lost to Winter’s Broadway straight on the turn.

Heads-Up Battle and Player Perspectives

Laskowitz erased an early deficit in just four hands but never seized the lead. The final hand saw Laskowitz flop top pair against Winter’s two pair, with all chips going in on the turn. Winter credited a mid-series break for sharpening his focus. “I felt pretty locked in this tournament,” Winter said. “A couple other tournaments I wasn’t feeling the sharpest. I wasn’t executing how I wanted to, and so I took an event off, the 15K, to just reset, and I think it worked out.”

Mateos maintained a sizable lead through much of the series, including a win in Event #5, but missed the money in the final three events. “I had a big lead all the way, but in the last three events I wasn’t able to cash, so the sweat was real,” Mateos said. He described his five stone bubbles across ten tournaments as “completely unbelievable.”

Winter noted he had never previously played heads-up against friend Laskowitz despite sharing many tournaments. He expressed no immediate plans for upcoming stops in Cyprus or the Bahamas, citing a preference to stay near family.

Reporting: PokerNews

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