The bell tolled for him when he moved in his final 4 big blinds over a raise from Nick Stille, only for Renato Spahiu to isolate in the big blind.

Jared Langbehn spent most of his time at the final two tables as the shortest stack, but managed to navigate up several pay ladders. It did not take too long to see the first casualty of the final table. Brewer collected $5,725 for his efforts and the final nine players took their seats. The last player to fall before the final table was Michael Brewer, who had flopped top pair top kicker on an ace-high board, only to be drawing nearly dead against Renato Spahiu’s flopped wheel. Many accomplished players saw their days end earlier than their hopes as players like Caitlin Comeskey (74th-$917), two time RGPS champion Dakotah O’Dell (64th-$1,074), Jared Ward (54th-$1,441), Kevin Berthelsen (44th-$1,641), and last year’s runner up Mark Homan (13th-$4,577) all fell on the outside of the final table. It did not take long for the players to start dropping. “I play a lot of home games, and a couple Saturdays a month I play the fat stack tournament,” he said when discussing his experience playing, “The main thing I tried was just to be calm and not do anything stupid, eliminate as many mistakes as I could.” Kopp also becomes the latest winner of the free roll to the dream seat tournament at the end of the year, of which he says “I will be making whatever arrangements I need to for that tournament.” Kopp is a local player who’s only prior Hendon Mob cash was his 29th place finish in the last iteration of The RGPS Main Event in Council Bluffs last October.

“I feel pretty good,” the newly crowned champion said after winning his ring “It’s still pretty surreal.” That tally created a prize pool worth $363,000 that only 74 players were lucky enough to see any piece of.Īfter the dust cleared it was local player Joshua Kopp who stood with the ring wrapped around his finger, and a sum of $68,799 for a prize. A total of 605 players tried their luck in The $700 RunGood Poker Series Checkpoint Main Event at The Horseshoe Casino In Council Bluffs Iowa.

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