In what he admitted felt like a validation of sorts, Ryan Riess won the World Poker Tour $10,000 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale for $716,088, triumphing over a field of 349 players.
It's by far the biggest cash he's had outside of his win in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event for over $8.3 million, after which he famously proclaimed himself the best player in the world.
"It was something I said in the moment," he said. "Now, I realize how bad I was four years ago [laughs].