Kristen Bicknell became the first female poker player to win a Poker Masters event as she toppled Chance Kornuth heads-up to triumph in the $25,000-entry NLHE Event in Las Vegas.

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Posting one of the biggest titles of her career to date, the partypoker pro took down a final table that at one point looked set up to become a procession for Chance Kornuth’s first event win of the Series. Kornuth, who had already finished second in two other Poker Masters events in the past week to take an early lead in the race for the Purple Jacket, was to be denied, however, and in the most spectacular style.

With six players making the final table, British high roller Ben Heath would be the first player to be eliminated, running his pocket kings into the pocket aces of Andras Nemeth. Nemeth was back in the game, but with Kornuth using his monster stack to deadly effect, the other players battled to survive rather than mount a serious assault on the chip mountain the 33-year-old player from Denver, Colorado had accumulated.