Samuel Panzica leaped up from No. 9 to grab a spot on the list after winning the 379-entry World Poker Tour bestbet Bounty Scramble this week. Panzica earned a first prize of $354,335 for his victory in the $5,000 buy-in event, and a bevy of POY points as well. Samuel Panzica live updates from poker tournaments. Level 19 Update: Samuel Panzica Eliminated in 9th Place. Level: 19 Antes: 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 8 out of 678 Average Chip. Poker Hand Matchup: Sam Panzica vs. Anthony Spinella: Samuel Panzica Win Pre-Flop Win Post-Flop Win Post-Turn; Starting Stack: 10,550,000 29.65% 29.7%.

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There were many great performances last week. Greece’s “geob000”won the PokerStars $215 Sunday Million for $149,332. The United Kingdom's Andy Hillsshipped the 2017 GUKPT Manchester Main Event for £46,987 as part of a four-way deal for £46,987. Italy's Federico Drassich securing three Cash Game Festival records in Slovenia including being the biggest winner on a feature table twice on the same day, three times in the same festival and three times across any Cash Game Festival.

Florida's Sam Panzica easily outshone them all. He won his second WPT title in the season and his second overall after he outlasted a record field of 806 players to win the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star $7,500 Main Event for $1,373,000 on March 11.

The American previously won the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble in October for $354,335 for his first WPT title.

The final table included one big name after another. In addition to Panzica, the final six included Anthony Spinella, Chino Rheem, Paul Volpe, Dennis Stevermer and Rainer Kempe.

All eyes were on Rheem who headed into the final table with a 3:1 chip advantage over Rainer Kempe in second place. Rheem was looking to become the first player to win four WPT titles. However, he was unable to parlay his big stack into a win and remains tied with last week's PokerNews Top Performace of the Week winnerDarren Elias, Anthony Zinno, Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen for winning three WPT titles.

After Kempe (sixth place - $188,460) and Stevermer (fifth place - $243,090) were eliminated from the tournament, Rheem's lead increased to the point where he held more than half the chips in play. Rheem then lost some chips before he eliminated Paul Volpe in fourth place for $349,610.

Panzica was the shortest stack in play with just 20 big blinds and his two opponents were north of 60 big blinds when he doubled up with pocket aces against Rheem's suited queen-jack.

Rheem lost another big pot to Panzica before his run to stand alone in the WPT history books ended. Spinella won a big pot off of Rheem in an all-in preflop hand where his king-jack outraced Rheem's ace-queen. Rheem, with just a few chips left after this hand, hit the rails in third place for $521,660.

Panzica headed into the heads-up battle with a 3:1 chip advantage. However, things were just about evened up when Spinella out-flipped Panzica's pocket sevens with king-jack. Spinella got most of the chips back the following hand.

Just two hands later, Panzica secured his second title after his ace-ten held against Spinella's ace-eight. According to the official records, Spinella collected $786,610 for his runner-up performance; however, according to figures Panzica mentioned on Twitter, Spinella walked away with an almost seven-digit haul after agreeing to a heads-up deal.

Chopped HU with @holdplz HU for 1.22M and then won HU for the 15k seat and watch. Weeeeeee

Panzica's victory was easily the largest of his poker career. Before this event, his biggest was about a year ago, when in February 2016 he won the EPT Event #54: €10,300 No Limit Hold'em High Roller - 8 Handed for €375,770 ($418,704).

According to The Hendon Mob, Panzica now has more than $3.3 million in live tournament cashes placing him in 17th place on the Florida All-Time Money List.

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The third and final day of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour €10,300 High Roller saw 13 hopefuls from a 185-entry field return to the tables at the Royal Dublin Society. With the top 27 spots reaching the money, the remaining field was well into the money with Sergey Lebedev in the lead, but the Russian wasn't the man walking away with the title. That accomplishment was fulfilled by American Samuel Panzica to the tune of €375,770.

Lebedev ultimately settled for third place after having already finished 10th in the €10,200 Single-Day High Roller a few days ago.

Panzica and Akin Tuna cut a deal before heads-up play started and left €65,770 and the trophy up for grabs. In the end it was Panzica who emerged victorious and shattered his previous biggest cash of $109,326.

Tuna finished second for €290,000 and more than quadrupled his live earnings to date.

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Diego Ventura was the shortest stack coming back for Day 3, and the Peruvian first doubled up with pocket aces against the pocket sevens of Ryan Riess before he saw his pocket queens getting cracked one hand later by the ace-ten of Lebedev when an ace appeared on the river.

EPT regular Sam Chartier finished 12th after defending his big blind with jack-six suited. The French Canadian found middle pair on a queen-high flop and check-raised all in. Tuna called with the superior pocket tens and held up to bust Chartier.

Christoph Vogelsang also fell victim to the early run of Tuna, who jumped into the lead by sending his fellow German to the rail in 11th place. Vogelsang defended his big blind with eight-five suited and found a five-high flop that prompted him to check-raise all in. Tuna had an overpair with pocket sixes, called, and won the hand.

The unofficial final table was set with the elimination of Jerry Odeen in 10th, and, wouldn't you know, he also sent his stack over to Tuna. The story was exactly the same with Odeen defending the queen-jack suited from the big blind and finding top pair on a jack-high flop, only to check-shove right into the pocket kings of his opponent.

Panzica then scored a huge double up after flopping a set of fours in a four-way pot. Lebedev paid off his check-shove with pocket tens and didn't get there. It was this pot that really helped propel Panzica forward, and he gained plenty of momentum.

It was then Rocco Palumbo who fell in ninth place when his three-bet shove with ace-king was snap-called by Panzica, who held pocket aces to jump into the top spot.

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Then it was William Arruda who exited in eighth place, Timothy Adams who finished in seventh, and Riess who took sixth.

For Riess, the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, he recorded his second high roller cash during the Dublin festival after finishing 13th in the €10,200 Single-Day High Roller. He was eliminated when his pocket sevens ran into the pocket eights of Davidi Kitai.

Despite scoring that knockout of Riess, Kitati was the next to go. He got his stack into the middle of the table by three-bet shoving with ace-seven. Tuna called with ace-six and made a straight on the river.

Emil Patel's run came to an end in fourth place. The American, now based in Finland, was at risk with ace-ten and had hopes of a comeback when Panzica turned over the ace-eight in the all-in showdown. However, an eight hit on the turn, and that was all she wrote.

Down to the last three, Lebedev was the shortest stack. After a passive start, the Russian then open-shoved for 24 big blinds from the button with pocket threes. Panzica called with pocket nines in the small blind, and no miracle happened for Lebedev.

After a quick discussion, the two remaining title contenders agreed to a deal that saw Panzica lock up €310,000 and Tuna €290,000. Tuna got off to an early lead, but then surrendered two bigger pots to become a 2-1 underdog.

On the final hand between the two, a board with three kings on the flop saw Tuna fire all three streets with jack-ten. A ten appeared on the river, and Panzica shoved over the third barrel from Tuna, who called it off with a full house only to get shown quads by Panzica holding king-five.

That's it from the PokerNews Live Reporting team reporting on the Dublin €10,300 High Roller, but there will be plenty more high-stakes poker action from the next stop of the European Poker Tour, the EPT Grand Final in Monaco starting at the end of April.

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