News and events from the Missouri region.
Earlier this month at the Missouri State Championship, Bill Hough got extremely close to qualifying for the Sin City Showdown by finishing third. However, it was the top two players that qualified for the National Championship sending Bill home in third place and just missing out. Luckily for Bill the dream wasn't over. At all the state championships every player received a chance to play against each other for yet another chance at qualifying for the National Final.
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The Missouri State Final was held May 1st at the Flaming Lantern in Butler. Twenty one players out of twenty five qualifiers were in attendance for the big game where 2 spots in the Sin City Showdown were up for grabs including airfare and hotel accommodations for first place. The game started out with early play being aggressive and players trying to build up their chip stacks right from the start. The first casualty was in the first hand when Martin Ambrozi doubled the big blind and several players called including the BB, Ken Edghill who was one of two players to be doubled stack to start the final....
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Jeff Steiner past grand prize winner of the Desert Heat promotion has done it again! This past weekend Jeff faced off against 14 other players all with the same goal to win a spot in the Gold Rush 2 National Championship. At the National Championship at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas $20,000 will be up for grabs between 26 players with first place being $5,000 cash. About half way through the Missouri state championship Jeff picked up pocket 10's and hit a set on the flop. When the river came it was the best scenario Jeff could have wished for as the board paired giving him a full house, but giving his opponent a ace high flush. Both players got all their chips in the middle with Jeff scooping the pot.
The hand made Jeff the chip leader and from there on out Jeff was able to manage his way through the tournament taking it down as he has done it before. Jeff is excited to go back to Vegas and hopes his luck runs a little better then last time. Congratulations Jeff and we look forward to seeing you again in December!
Clark's Place in Harrisonville will host the regional playoffs for the fall qualifiers of the Sin City Showdown-WSOP SATURDAY, JAN 22ND starting at 12:30pm. 35 players have qualified for this event. Good luck!
On Saturday, May 15, 24 regional qualifiers gathered at Clark's Place in Harrisonville, MO, to see who would be crowned the next Missouri State Champion for our Destination Las Vegas promotion. With four players holding double chips it looked like the group was in for some fierce Texas Hold'em tournament action.
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