Conniff, who won the kickoff event to the Borgata Spring Poker Open Festival - which included the WPT World Championship - would use those winnings to buy into the WPT season-ending event, posting the following on Twitter:
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Little did Conniff know that he would actually leave Atlantic City over $1.1M richer!
A total of 16 players won WPT tour events this year, including eventual WPT Player of the Year Anthony Zinno (GPI No. 14) and Darren Elias (GPI No. 18), who remarkably each won back-to-back events on the World Poker Tour this season! Here is a list of all winners from Season XIII on the World Poker Tour:
SEASON XIII WPT TOURNAMENT RESULTS
WPT Legends of Poker August 23-29, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA Winner: Harry Arutyunyan (ARM), $576,369
partypoker WPT Merti Classic North Cyprus September 5-10, 2014 - Cyprus Winner: Alexander Lakhov (RUS), $325,400
WPT Borgata Poker Open September 14-19, 2014 - Atlantic City, NJ Winner: Darren Elias (USA), $843,744
WPT Caribbean November 3-7, 2014 - St. Maarten Winner: Darren Elias (USA), $127,680
WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble November 7-11, 2014 - Jacksonville, FL Winner: Ryan Van Sanford (USA), $421,068
WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic November 14-16, 2014 - Johannesburg, RSA Winner: Dylan Wilkerson (USA), $147,509
parrtpoker WPT UK November 18-23, 2014 - Nottingham, UK Winner: Matas Cimbolas (LTU), $313,328
partypoker WPT Montreal November 20-26, 2014 - Montreal, QC Winner: Jonathan Jaffe (USA), $429,106
WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic December 15-20, 2014 - Las Vegas, NV Winner: Mohsin Charania (USA), $1,477,890
WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open January 25-30, 2015 - Atlantic City, NJ Winner: Aaron Mermelstein (USA), $712,305
WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open February 5-11, 2015 - Hollywood, FL Winner: Brian Altman (USA), $723,008
WPT Fallsview Poker Classic February 13-16, 2015 - Niagara Falls, ON Winner: Anthony Zinno (USA), $314,629
WPT L.A. Poker Classic February 28-5, 2015 - Los Angeles, CA Winner: Anthony Zinno (USA), $1,015,860
WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star March 9-13, 2015 - San Jose, CA Winner: Taylor Paur (USA), $1,214,200
partypoker WPT Vienna March 12-17, 2015 - Vienna, AUT Winner: Konstantin Nanos (GRE), $157,447
WPT Rolling Thunder March 14-18, 2015 - Lincoln (Sacramento), CA Winner: Ravee Mathi (USA), $266,857
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown March 16-22, 2015 - Hollywood, FL Winner: Griffin Paul (USA), $1,000,000
WPT World Championship April 25-29, 2015 - Atlantic City, NJ Winner: Asher Conniff (USA), $973,683
