The day began with 17 remaining contenders, and for a while, it looked as though Sampson was going to continue his hot streak as he claimed his first victim with Anubhav Jolly when he knocked him out in 16th place. RGPS Checkpoint Season Finale Final Table Results
“Yeah, I finally win a tournament here and this motherf****r goes and wins one on the same day,” Patterson joked as he and Murray congratulated each other. It was a huge moment for Patterson, a World Poker Tour (WPT) champion, as he was the runner-up in this same event back in December, to none other than, you guessed it, the aforementioned Brett Murray-, who also took down the Rendezvous tournament on Monday for around a $28,000 score. With the win, Patterson is now ranked second on the Thunder Valley Casino Resort all-time poker money list, trailing only to Brett Murray.
The RunGood Checkpoint Season Finale began with an over-the-top kickoff of its second annual $1,000,000 guaranteed RGPS Main Event, a $2,500 buy-in tournament that attracted 477 entrants and offered up a $1,064,187 prize pool, and concluded with another celebration atmosphere as hometown hero Tyler Patterson ended the event with a comeback victory against Paul Sampson.Īfter a lengthy heads-up battle that lasted almost two hours, it was Patterson’s ace-eight taking down the tournament steamroller’s jack-three.
