Jason Wheeler is a poker veteran who has been around for a decade. The 40-year-old American pro has racked up nearly $8 million in online tournament winnings and has over $3 million in live cashes. From Chicago, Illinois, Wheeler's been a familiar face on the European live poker circuit for almost a decade, having relocated to Amsterdam years ago.
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A little more information about the final six players at the €5,000 PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event (compiled by Jan Kores, Media Co-ordinator, and team):
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Seat 1: Harry Lodge (United Kingdom) -- 1.23 million (15 BBs)
Harry Lodge is a 23-year-old professional poker player from Haywards Heath, in the UK. Lodge made his mark on the PokerStars Festival London earlier this year, finishing second in the £2,000 High Roller for £36,150. But his top performance came a few months later at the summer World Series of Poker where Lodge earned a $344,888 third-place prize in the $888 Crazy Eights event.
Lodge has earned a number of big scores online as well, including on PokerStars where he plays as 'Iamapoopie.' His best online cash was $88,545 for a runner-up finish in the 2016 TCOOP-27 $215 NL Hold'em Event.
Lodge was on the verge of elimination several times during Day 4. He was short-stacking for the most of the day but all the key clashes went his way, and he survived to be the short stack to start play today.
Seat 2: Kalidou Sow (France) -- 8.135 million (102 BBs)
Frenchman Kalidou Sow was 13th of 15 entering yesterday's penultimate day, but a rush of big hands and knockouts helped catapult him to the top of the counts heading into today's finale.
The 37-year-old has already has a number of decent live results, including a career-best score of €72,000 for third place in the France Poker Series (FPS) Season 5 Main Event in Enghien-les-Bains. Sow has three career wins as well, including taking down the 2016 Belgian Poker Challenge Namur High Roller for €41,460 as well as the 2016 Barrière Poker Tour Toulouse Main Event for €32,100.
Seat 3: Michal Mrakes (Czech Republic) -- 5.01 million (63 BBs)
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The 31-year-old Czech player Michael Mrakes has already earned headlines in this PSC Prague Main Event. Mrakes has been near or at the top of leader board all week, including ending Days 1 and 4 with the chip lead, and he enters today's finale with the third-largest stack among the final six.
It was while living in Sydney, Australia that Mrakes was introduced to poker, and five years ago he returned home to Prague to pursue a career as a pro. This year has been the best yet for Mrakes, highlighted by a win in the €1,100 partypoker MILLION event in Rozvadov for a €200,000 payday.
Wherever he finishes today he'll top the $1 million mark in lifetime earnings with more than half of that picked up in 2017 alone.
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Seat 4: Gabriele Lepore (Italy) -- 1.815 million (23 BBs)
Gabriele Lepore enters today fourth in chips and below the average after managing to nurse a short stack successfully throughout Day 5 to join the final six. It was about a decade ago that Lepore turned a hobby into a profession, becoming a full-time player specializing in online multi-table tournaments and sit & gos.
He's no stranger to the live circuit, either, currently ranking 43rd on the Italian all-time money list with more than $710,000 in live cashes. Among the 34-year-old's live scores are three EPT Main Event cashes, a victory in the La Notte Del Poker €2,000 Main Event in late 2012 worth €104,000, another win in the WPT National €1,650 Event, banking €92,000, and a runner-up finish in the EPT6 Snowfest €1,000 Event for a €40,000 payday.
Seat 5: Colin Robinson (United States) -- 1.425 million (18 BBs)
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Colin Robinson is a 22-year-old business marketing student from Phoenix, Arizona, currently studying at Arizona State University in Tempe. He's only been playing poker for two-and-a-half years, having graduated quickly from home games with friends and other video and strategy games.
This is Robinson's second poker trip to Prague after cashing in last year's Eureka High Roller here in the Czech capital. He's guaranteed today to more than double his live tournament earnings of just over $70,000. So far, he's racked up just over $70,000 in cashes. His previous best result was $34,800 for a first place in a 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open side event.
Seat 6: Jason 'jdtjpoker' Wheeler (United States) -- 8.1 million (101 BBs)
Jason Wheeler is a poker veteran who has been around for a decade. The 40-year-old American pro has racked up nearly $8 million in online tournament winnings and has over $3 million in live cashes.
From Chicago, Illinois, Wheeler's been a familiar face on the European live poker circuit for almost a decade, having relocated to Amsterdam years ago. Wheeler's career-best result dates back to 2009 when he fell just shy of winning a WSOP bracelet, finishing second in the $1,500 NL Hold'em event for $418,122. Today marks his debut at a PokerStars main tour Main Event final table, with the previous deepest run coming at the EPT8 Grand Final (18th for €40,000).
Wheeler envisioned his success here in the Main Event as he described at the end of Day 4: 'I feel amazing. Last week, I had a dream. I was at the final table of this tournament. This is unusual, I've never dreamt about poker before. I told my dream to my friend Ludovic Geilich and he reached two final tables this week. Now I start thinking that the dream could become true for me.'
Prolific on both live and online felt, Wheeler's main forte has been the PokerStars $1,050 Super Tuesday. Playing as 'jdtjpoker,' he's conquered the prestigious weekly event four times in his career. His other accolades from the virtual realm include a WCOOP bracelet as well as SCOOP $25k High Roller final table.
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After just one day of play, the Arizona State Poker Championship was declared over because of a massive flooding due to a storm. The Arizona State Poker Championship was suddenly cancelled when a strong monsoon storm caused the main and back-up generators to break down early Saturday morning (August 11) at around 2am. Talking Stick Resort, the host of the tournament, remained closed that Saturday. A casino guest named Mike Pamula said, 'I sat there in terror hoping to not get robbed or the place, to not be held up or something. People were moving around frantically.' Pamula said he was in the casino that time and felt terrified as he realized the employees did not know how to handle the situation because they kept saying they have never experienced this kind of predicament. A representative of the casino resort said, 'All guests were immediately evacuated and we initiated our temporary closure protocols. Reservations have been halted and all property events have been canceled until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to resume at Talking Stick Resort to the level of excellence that our guests have come to expect.' The 2018 Arizona State Poker Championship was scheduled on August 10 to 14, with 3 starting flights and then 2 days of play to determine a champion. Things went well on Day 1a, with 553 entries and 90 advancing, and the prize pool reached to $553,000. Bad news for the players, because it means that the tournament ended without a top winner. There were many disappointed poker players who had no choice but to just leave the premises. For those who managed to bag big stacks, they will no longer be able to have the opportunity to play for a prize pool that was most likely going to surpass $1.5 million. As for the other players who had to travel to the area for the tournament, they lost precious money especially if they spent also for airfare and hotel accommodations. Players who made it past Day 1a shall be awarded payouts from the entire $553,000, based on ICM (independent chip model). Both players who paid for the buy-in and also the satellite winners who reserved seats for Day 1b and Day 1c will receive refunds at the sister property Casino Arizona, situated 10 minutes south of Talking Stick on Highway 101. They just need to show their valid ID and ticket. As for the players who will get a piece of the $553,000 pie, they have it even worse as they have to wait a little longer because their exact payouts will be determined at a later date. Players can check for updates on the matter via Twitter: https://twitter.com/AZStateChamp. The $1,100 buy-in Arizona State Poker Championship is a tournament that has been getting quite popular in the past years since it comes right after the WSOP tournament series and many players attend the event in the Western U.S. Introduced in 2005, the event has doubled in size within the past decade. Now, it has an estimated prize pool of $1.5 million after player entries reached 1,510 and 1,691 in 2016 and 2017. Players who have won big in this event throughout the years include Kelly Minkin, Dylan Hortin, Jeff Fielder, Jake Balsiger, Matt Affleck, and past champions Joe Kuether and Pat Lyons. Source: |
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9 comments on 'Arizona State Poker Championship Canceled due to Storm'
| doubletop777 | 15/08/2018 07:39:53 GMT |
| I have never heard of a poker tournament being cancelled because of the weather before. It must have been quite frightening for the players in the arena when all this was going on and i am glad that no-one seems to have been hurt | |
| Gerimantas | 15/08/2018 10:37:19 GMT |
| Yes i too like doubletop say never hear poker tournament cancel because flood. Of course everything can be with nature, but this is first time i read about such situations. It was interesting to read | |
| pajalnick | 15/08/2018 12:08:06 GMT |
| of course for all players who came to the poker championship is an unpleasant event .. but the most important thing is that in the disaster no one died .. and so everything is ok .. but in the life of poker players was an interesting event . | |
| Mober | 15/08/2018 14:12:50 GMT |
| That may be the first time something like that happened. Weather is getting weirder and weired nowadays. All phenomena are more intense, due to the climate change. Good thing some were saying there is no impact to the weather, due to global warming. Yea, we can see that there is no change at all.. | |
| CALICUL | 15/08/2018 15:27:57 GMT |
| It is good that it was canceled because of ugly weather, and not because of an terrorist assault or something like that. It is ugly that the players were sent home but the casino had no good conditions of safety. This casino will lose to the personal image but people forget fast because there was nothing else more dramatic. | |
| bowie1984 | 16/08/2018 14:59:56 GMT |
| Why a Resort with a size like this one have not get enough working backup generators in case a couple of them giving up is beyond me. They sat there afraid of being robbed while a normally cautious safety protocol could have prevented this in a first place.. | |
| erru9107 | 16/08/2018 20:55:52 GMT |
| Well, a poker even being cancelled due to hard weather, that's gotta be a first. I've never heard of it before at least. It must have been really bad if they would shut this down due to it. Really lucky that noone seems to have been hurt at least. After all, life is more precious then money for sure! | |
| misteriopj | 24/08/2018 17:04:52 GMT |
| All natural tragedies are bad, the important thing is that people are well in the same way it is rare to hear that he suspends a poker tournament in a casino, hopefully the distribution of the prize will be made and the casino will remain transparent throughout what he does and wait next year so that he returns to fight said tournament | |
| CALICUL | 25/08/2018 17:43:12 GMT |
| Natural tragedies happen very often when you have not set up a rainwater collection system and drainage channel well established. I think Sua has something like that because is a big country with big money. In this situation it was not a tragedy because no one died but players were upset, of course. |
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