Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING AUGUST 2018 16 WYNN RESORTS EXECUTIVE Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Kim Sinatra has become the latest casualty of the Steve Wynn scandal, announcing her departure from the board as of 15 July 2018. Sinatra’s departure comes after she was MORE CHANGES AT WYNN RESORTS AS KIM SINATRA STEPS DOWN Thirty-three-year-old John Cynn has been crowned the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, earning a massive US$8.8 million payday after outlasting a field of 7,873 players over 10 days to claim poker’s most prestigious prize. But it took a marathon effort on the final day to do so, with his heads-up battle against eventual runner-up Tony Miles lasting an astonishing 10 hours and 199 John Cynn wins 2018 WSOP Main Event hands – the longest in WSOP history. Incredibly, Cynn’s victory comes just two years after he narrowly missed the final table in the 2016 main event, eliminated in 11th before returning this year to go all the way. “To make 11th is insane on its own,” said Cynn after more than making amends for his narrow 2016 miss. “Then to win, that’s literally something that you dream of, but just never expect to happen. Right now I feel pretty overwhelmed – all the emotions times 10.” The professional poker player and former logistics analyst, from Illinois, had 12 WSOP cashes to his name before this year’s main event with career live tournament earnings of $944,786. The 2018 WSOP main event was the second largest in history behind only the 2006 event which attracted a monster field of 8,773 players. targeted in a campaign by the company’s largest shareholder, Elaine Wynn, to refresh the board ahead of the recent board elections with Ms Wynn claiming that Sinatra was aware of an alleged 2005 incident involving Steve Wynn and a manicurist in a Wynn Resorts salon. Sinatra has denied any such knowledge. She represents the seventh change to the Wynn Resorts board since February. Sinatra remains a non-executive board member of Wynn Macau. Image by Joe Giron/WSOP