Making a living as a professional poker player can be accomplished in many ways, including grinding out a solid win-rate in what many would consider to be smaller games. One such big fish in a small pond is Connor Berkowitz, but he now has the bankroll to move up in stakes after taking down the penultimate event of the 2015 World Series of Poker.

Connor Berkowitz 'thehofffx' opened for 9,000 and Tanner 'bamatide88' Bibat defended his big blind to see a flop. Bibat check-jammed for 42,272 after 'thehofffx' continued for 20,000 and was called. Connor Berkowitz poker results, stats, photos, videos, news, magazine columns, blogs, Twitter, and more. $350+$50 Almighty Stack NLH $300,000 Guaranteed Level 35: Blinds 400,000/800,000/100,000 ante Total Entries: 1,052 Players Remaining: 4 Average Stack: 26 million Dan Buzgon opened-shoved from the cutoff and Connor Berkowitz, in the big blind, counted out his chips ( 12 million) and decided to call all-in. His was dominated by Dan’s. Connor Berkowitz won the penultimate event at this year’s World Series of Poker, the Lucky Sevens Event and in the process took home $487,784. The event drew a field of 4,422 players creating a prize pool of $3,095,400. This was the first ever Lucky Sevens Event at the WSOP and the top 468 players got paid.

Berkowitz won Event #66: $777 “Lucky 7s” No-Limit Hold'em, the first such event the WSOP has ever held. He won $487,784 for topping the 4,422-player field, not to mention the gold bracelet.

It isn't Berkowitz's first time scoring five figures or more, but you wouldn't know that looking at his poker stats. That's because Berkowitz makes a living playing online tournaments in his home state of New Jersey, where he can play legally with fellow residents.

Berkowitz hopes the market continues to grow and legislation continues to advance – he mentioned combining player pools with other states like Nevada – because “there's not that much money out there.”

The final table for the event included Matt Matros, who finished eighth, and Faraz Jaka, who was denied his first bracelet with a fifth-place finish. Berkowitz proved to be Jaka's downfall as he shoved for 1.5 million over a Jaka open for 260,000 and doubled when he hit a three-outer with the against Jaka's . A bit later, Berkowitz finished Jaka off with the against as neither player found any improvement on the board.

Berkowitz then continued to run hot, busting Jeffrey Dobrin with when Dobrin picked up . That gave Berkowitz half the chips in play three-handed and he made it a full four eliminations in a row by taking out David Yu in third and John Armbrust in second.

The huge score means Berkowitz can continue his newly-chosen profession by hopping in the Main Event, which still has Day 1c on Tuesday, which Berkowitz is now considering playing. He had a short-lived career as a banker after majoring in business but decided that wasn't the life for him and switched to the game he's been playing with friends since he was 12 years old.

Now, he has a life-changing score to show for it.

“It really is a dream come true,” he said. “It's everybody's dream, but for it to actually happen is insane.”

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