$240 Mega Satellite Bubble Bursts — Four Left for a Landmark Seat

George Karmires just walked away from the Horseshoe with nothing.

The American, who carries $31,432 in lifetime tournament earnings and exactly one prior final table on his résumé, busted 9th in Event #400 — the $240 Daily NLH Landmark Mega Satellite — with four players still alive and seats on the line. Ninth place in a satellite pays the same as last: zero.

That's the cruelty of the format. A $240 buy-in. Hours of grinding through a field that started at 54-plus runners and collapsed to two tables by 3 a.m. And then the floor calls your name for the last time and you stand up empty-handed.

Who Else Fell Short

Karmires wasn't the only player with a real record to bust on the wrong side of the bubble. Ricky Robinson, a two-time WSOP Circuit ring winner with $174,963 in lifetime cashes and five career final tables, went out 12th. Enael Garrido ($7,130 lifetime) followed Karmires out in 10th. Julian Serruya, who traveled from Argentina with $2,100 lifetime to his name and one final table, exited 11th.

Ricky Robinson, a two-time Circuit ring winner with nearly $175K in lifetime cashes, couldn't survive to the seat — out in 12th.

Four Remain

The satellite is now four-handed. No chip counts have been reported for the survivors, and the remaining players' identities haven't surfaced in the data yet. What we know: whoever's left is playing for a Landmark seat worth multiples of their $240 investment, and every pot from here is effectively freeroll territory — everyone remaining is already in the money.

The field also included Chi-Tsun Chan, a Canadian with one WSOPC ring, $74,588 in lifetime earnings, and two final tables, who was among the last 14 players at the two-table redraw. Christopher Kojack ($124,135 lifetime, one final table) was also alive at that stage.

This one should wrap within the hour. Four seats. Four players. The math is clean — and it's too late for anyone else to feel the sting Karmires is feeling right now.