Live tournament round up sees a telephone repairman take down the latest Heartland Poker Tour Main Event and the $270,000 Bad Beat Jackpot is crushed in Cincinnati.
The Aussie Millions might be a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean the wheels of the live tournament circuit are not kept greased.
The name of Joe Nguyen has been added to the list of Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) Main Event champions after taking the top spot in the recent $1,650 HPT Club One Main Event in California.
It was a quite wonderful television spectacle as the telephone repairman squared off against the Director of Business Development at the Club One Casino Su Kim. The rail was raucous in support of Kim, but Nguyen had a little too much for her, and she had to settle for a very worthy second place.
The HPT now moves on to Black Hawk, St Louis, Palm Springs, Vicksburg and Daytona Beach before everyone heads to Vegas for a little tournament known as The World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Final Table Standings
1st. Joe Nguyen $75,754
2nd. Su Kim $46,715
3rd. Jed Hoffman $31,565
4th. Daniel Evans $22,411
5th. William Chao $17,360
6th. Stan Jablonski $14,204
7th. Triet Nguyen $11,837
8th. Tanya Kirk $9,943
9th. Prabhaka Thonduru $8,207
Horseshoe Cincinnati Blows its $270,000 Bad Beat Jackpot
Every low rollers dream is to be sat in the game when the bad beat jackpot hits and that’s exactly what has happened to eight lucky players at the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati.
The largest bad beat jackpot in the history of the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Tri-State area was activated on Tue Feb 11th when Gary Costa watched in delight as his quad sevens were beaten by the jack-high straight flush of Michael Humphreys.
At the time of the hand the bad beat jackpot stood at $270,000. Costa picked up $108,000, Humphreys picked up $54,000 and the other six players involved in the game all collected $18,000 each.
“This was an incredibly exciting day for the local poker players,” said Jason Newman, manager of Horseshoe Cincinnati’s poker room. “Paying out the largest Bad Beat ever in the Cincinnati area, it’s a rare occasion that players buying into a game for $100/$200 get to walk away $100,000 richer.”
