$460 Mystery Bounty | 2025 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

2025-02-10 15:55 UTC-6

Unlucky Seat Sends Out Beard While Tokko Rockets into the Lead

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Nível 19 : Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

"Wait, can I have that chair please? It's my lucky seat," Samuel Beard said to Erin Parisien as the players were being redrawn into the final three tables. Parisien hesitated for a second but obliged and Beard took his lucky seat...

Then on the very first hand, Beard, who had around 1,100,000, got involved in a preflop betting war with fellow big stack Moe Tokko, which ended when Beard moved all in and Tokko called to put him at risk in a monster pot.

Samuel Beard: K♦K♠
Moe Tokko: A♦A♠

"Wow, what a cooler," Beard sighed and shook his head in disbelief as the board ran out 3♦10♥5♣6♦4♥ to give Tokko the win and Beard was sent to the rail.

"Sick seat change," someone said as Beard exited, getting a few chuckles from the table.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Moe Tokko	2,500,000 1,185,000	1,185,000
Samuel Beard	Eliminado

Tags: Erin Parisien Moe Tokko Samuel Beard

2025-02-10 15:56 UTC-6

Flashback: Tommy Zhang Wins Champions Club WPO $1,500 Main Event!

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Nível 19 : Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Last February. the 2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open $1,500 Main Event saw Tommy Zhang hoist the trophy after defeating Spencer Champlin in a lengthy heads-up battle. Along with the trophy and the title, Zhang took home $209,730, while Champlin was awarded the runner-up prize of $164,430.

“It honestly feels like I’m in a dream,” Zhang said after the grueling two-hour heads-up battle,” It’s kind of crazy, actually, because the only tournament I won was ten years ago in Macao, and I told myself at the end of last year that I really wanted to win another one before I die, and I just feel like I manifested this.” This was prevalent throughout all of the stages of the tournament, as he was heard saying that he could just feel like he couldn’t lose.

The UK-born Shanghai resident did not even plan on playing in the tournament, but the private equity broker just happened to be close in Missouri City, where he was tending to a property. “Yeah, 99% of the time, I just play cash, but I saw there was a $1 mil tournament going on, so I just decided to flick it in.”

2024 WPO Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tommy Zhang	$209,730
2	Spencer Champlin	$164,430
3	Andrew Esposito	$131,540
4	Jerry Yen	$78,750
5	Adam Hendrix	$59,910
6	Cedrric Trevino	$48,180
7	David Diaz	$40,000
8	Chris Staats	$31,920
9	Charles Sinn	$24,020

Read the Full Recap Here

Nível: 20

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 30,000

2025-02-10 16:23 UTC-6

Normand Wakes Up With Aces, White Exits

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Nível 20 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

After an open by Moe Tokko, Derek Normand three-bet to 195,000 but then Jake White moved all in for close to 500,000.

After some thought, Tokko decided to let it go but Normand quickly called to put White at risk.

Jake White: A♣10♦ All in
Derek Normand: A♠A♥

The flop of Q♦K♥2♦ gave White some hope with a gunshot straight draw and even picked up more outs as the turn 6♦ gave him a flush draw. Alas, the river was the brick Q♠ and White shook hands with Normand before he headed to the exit.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Derek Normand	2,300,000 1,640,000	1,640,000
Jake White	Eliminado

Tags: Derek Normand Jake White Moe Tokko

2025-02-10 16:32 UTC-6

Panjwani Scoops Massive Pot, then Pulls $15k Bounty!

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Nível 20 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

On a multi-way flop of J♥10♥9♣, Tony 'Tony Thai' Sivorakoune checked, Raj Kumar bet 120,000, and then Kassim Panjwani rips it in for over 3 million, covering both players.

"Ok lets do it," Sivorakoune says and pushed his 700,000 chips into the middle and after some time in the tank, Kumar does the same and they were off to the races!

Tony Sivorakoune: A♥6♥ All in
Raj Kumar: 9♥9♠ All in
Kassim Panjwani: K♥Q♣

The board ran out 6♠Q♠ to completely brick and Panjwani scooped the huge pot to send both players to the rail.

He then proceeded to pull the $15,200 bounty immediately after!

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Kassim Panjwani	5,600,000 4,340,000	4,340,000
Tony Sivorakoune	Eliminado
Raj Kumar	Eliminado

Tags: Kassim Panjwani Raj Kumar Tony Sivorakoune

2025-02-10 16:33 UTC-6

Break Time

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Nível 20 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

The players are now on their second break of the day and will return to action shortly.

Nível: 21

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 40,000

2025-02-10 16:40 UTC-6

Updated Counts (Completo)

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Nível 21 : Blinds 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Kassim Panjwani	5,525,000 75,000	75,000
Benjamin Harris	2,075,000 1,630,000	1,630,000
Derek Normand	2,000,000 300,000	300,000
Moe Tokko	1,900,000 600,000	600,000
Erin Parisien	1,525,000 840,000	840,000
Vladyslav Shovkovyi	1,000,000 75,000	75,000
Brian Winter	860,000
Jonathan Park	620,000
Aleta Chapman	600,000 150,000	150,000
Trung Pham	575,000 330,000	330,000