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Arizona State Poker Championship 2017
Tournament Info
Jason Wheeler is a poker veteran who has been around for a decade. The 40-year-old American pro has racked up nearly $8 million in online tournament winnings and has over $3 million in live cashes. From Chicago, Illinois, Wheeler's been a familiar face on the European live poker circuit for almost a decade, having relocated to Amsterdam years ago.
- Event Name
- AZ State Champ - Series Event - No Limit Hold'em - Day 1B
- Event Type
- Series Event
- Game Type
- NL Holdem
- Event Start Date
- Saturday, Aug 12, 2017
- Starting Flights
- 3
- Length of Event
- 4 days
Registration
- Start Time
- 9:00am
- Registration Closes
- 11:15am
- Each flight limited to 470 entries and 130 alternates.
Buy-In Details
- Tom Schneider, a.k.a. The Donkey Bomber, is one of the more colorful personalities in poker. Tom was the 2007 World Series of Poker Player of the Year, has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and has over $2.3 million in tournament winnings. He is the host of the Arizona State Poker Championship as well as a regular on Poker Night in America.
- For more details about the 11th annual Arizona State Poker Championship, visit www.TalkingStickResort.com or call (480) 850-7734. All participants must submit their $1,100 buy-in during the signup.
- Pimlott’s favorite poker memory is celebrating his victories with his three kids. “I usually come home, my pockets are fat with a bunch of cash,” he said. Pimlott has bought two cars for his kids with his poker winnings. His oldest is a college student at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University, a second-year aerospace.
- Total Buy-In
- $1,100
- Entry Fee
- $1,000
- Deductions
- $100
Format
- Starting Chips
- 16,000
- Starting Blinds
- 50/100
- Ante Type
- None
- Staff Bonus
- $30
- Staff Bonus Chips
- 10,000
- Re-Entry
- Unlimited
- Through first three levels.
Structure
- Level Time
- 40
- Break Length
- 15 min
- Break Frequency
- Every 3 levels. Day 1's have 1-hour dinner break between 5:45 - 6:45 pm.
- Blind Structure
- View
- Structure Notes
- Day 1's play until approximately 9PM. Semi-Finals resume 8/14 at 9AM. Finals (10 players) resume 8/15 at 10AM.
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This week, major tournament series’ in the U.S. took a breather as PokerStars Championship Barcelona took center stage. There is still plenty of U.S. poker tournament results to report on, though, as from Pennsylvania
to Arizona, there were events featuring four-figure buy-ins, record turnouts, and six-figure prize pools. Arizona State Poker Championship 2017 Results
Young Tames Parx Field
Parx Casino in Bensalem drew a strong field for their $1,600 Big Stax Main Event. Two starting flights and the ability to enter on Day 2 brought in 424 entrants and created a prize pool of over $650,000. Oregon’sMaxwell Young won the title in a three-way chop with Mike Lavenburg and Vinny Pahuja, to take home $120,930.
The talented final table included Chris Horter, Jason Rivkin, and Wade Meacham, with Christian Harder and former Big Stax Main Event Champion Brent Roberts among the players who cashed.
Massive Fields Out West and Down South
The Arizona State Poker Championship at the Talking Stick Resort drew a record-breaking crowd of 1,691 entrants for the $1,100 buy-in event. Rellie Sigua claimed the title and the $265,076 first place prize by beating Dylan Hortin heads up. WSOPCircuit Main Event Champion Jeff Fielder placed fourth and David “ODB” Baker made a strong run to make the final three tables.
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The RunGood Series made its first ever stop in Tunica, MS, opening their fall series in record fashion. A total of 582 entrants bought into the $560 event, almost tripling the $100,000 guarantee and setting the series record for entrants. David Troutman won the title and $58,797, beating bracelet winner Kyle Cartwright heads up. Local pro and former SHRPO final tablist Tim Burt finished in fourth place.
MSPT Awards Indiana State Poker Championship
The Mid-States Poker Tour traveled to the Tropicana in Evansville, Indiana for the $250,000 guaranteed MSPT Main Event. The $1,100 buy-in brought in a field of 320 entrants, putting the prize pool over $300,000. Satish Thakur defeated a final table featuring Kurt Jewell and Craig Welko to win the $71,047 first place prize.
The MSPT is on the road this weekend to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a $150,000 guaranteed main event.
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America’s Poker Tour Heads To Chicagoland
North of Evansville, the America’s Poker Tour was in Gary, In at the Majestic Star Casino. The $100,000 guaranteed event drew 183 entries with Bryan Skreens finishing on top. Skreens won $39,106 after making a heads up deal with Gary Herstein, who earned $30,000.
What’s coming up?
More American titles are up for grabs next week with the WPT DeepStacks heading to Reno and the WSOP Circuit Main Event playing out at Foxwoods.