Michael Lavin won his first live World Series of Poker event Friday after racking up numerous tournament victories online.

But the professional poker player took home an even larger prize.

Lavin overcame a field of 1,299 entries in the $1,500 buy-in No-limit Hold’em Shootout at Horseshoe Las Vegas. By virtue of his win, Lavin earned a $1 million bonus from rival promotion ClubWPT Gold on top of the $267,373 first prize.

“It made the whole tournament so weird for me,” Lavin told Poker.org about the seven-figure payout that only he was eligible to earn. “I had to win, and second made no difference. The whole final table I had to play completely different. It was breaking my brain, and it was a lot.

“I’m happy it’s over. I’m happy I won. It’s crazy, a pipe dream, and it happened.”

Lavin

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