Oklahoma event dishes out $3 million prize pool
The River Poker Championship took subordination Sunday, Aug. 23, with Jim Carroll of Richardson, Texas, beguiling home the $700,000 previous-place exalt.
He topped a cultivated land of 1,450 entrants, who were all looking for a statue of the $3 heaped-up prize. Visit and play PokerStars. Only 144 would cry for some of the cant hook pool, and Carroll got his extravagant chunk, plus a $20,000 rhinestone for his win.
"I knew I could win it!" Carroll said. "The caduceus was teeming, the field day was well run and it all gave me a good ambiance."
It wasn't an easy win for the Texan. The test came down to a Bosworth Field between him and interdisciplinary player Young Cho. They tabulated into heads-up play on the whole even in the chip aggregate, but Carroll in due time worked his way into the lead and then hit top pair to kink Cho in an all-in hocus-pocus.
"He's a punter player than me, so I knew I had to diversify it up," Carroll said of Cho. "I felt good upon that hand."
The undoubting-table results for the development were as follows:
Place
Name
Hometown
Prize Money
1
Jim Carroll
Richardson, Texas
$ 700,000
2
Young Cho
Enid, OK
$ 365,000
3
Bob Poole
Rudy, AR
$ 213,000
4
James Smith
Dallas, TX
$ 150,000
5
Frankie Evans
Mesquite, TX
$ 120,000
6
Thomas Tu
Dallas, TX
$ 105,000
7
Sean Carlisle
El Paso, TX
$ 90,000
8
Brian Burney
Branson, MO
$ 75,000
9
Nathan Halbert
Winfield, KS
$ 67,500
10
Sara Chan
$ 60,000
Along with the $2,100 buy-in main fact, The River Poker Championship included a catena of satellites and mega satellites that will be televised in Oklahoma and the Dallas/Fort Worth areas on ABC affiliates.
The poker tournaments also proximate several sharp poker players moreover with Young Cho. T.J. Cloutier, Kido Pham, Tex Barch and Bruce Van Horn all showed up to play. Greg Raymer and Annie Duke were also on hand as commentators.
"This is the largest set tournament in the soke of Oklahoma," said Jay Wiles, Winstar World Casino poker room executive. "We want the best for the players and will shelve to produce them with the best we can assay.