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02-10-2025 16:23 UTC-6

Normand Wakes Up With Aces, White Exits

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Kirk Brown

Level 20 : Blinds 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

After an open by Moe Tokko, Derek Normand three-bet to 195,000 but then Jake White moved all in for close to 500,000.

After some thought, Tokko decided to let it go but Normand quickly called to put White at risk.

Jake White: A?10? All in
Derek Normand: A?A?

The flop of Q?K?2? gave White some hope with a gunshot straight draw and even picked up more outs as the turn 6? gave him a flush draw. Alas, the river was the brick Q? and White shook hands with Normand before he headed to the exit.

Player	Chips	Progress
Derek Normand	2,300,000 1,640,000	1,640,000
Jake White	Busted

Tags: Derek Normand Jake White Moe Tokko

Level: 20

Blinds: 15,000/30,000

Ante: 30,000

02-10-2025 15:56 UTC-6

Flashback: Tommy Zhang Wins Champions Club WPO $1,500 Main Event!

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Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

Last February. the 2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open $1,500 Main Event saw Tommy Zhang hoist the trophy after defeating Spencer Champlin in a lengthy heads-up battle. Along with the trophy and the title, Zhang took home $209,730, while Champlin was awarded the runner-up prize of $164,430.

“It honestly feels like I’m in a dream,” Zhang said after the grueling two-hour heads-up battle,” It’s kind of crazy, actually, because the only tournament I won was ten years ago in Macao, and I told myself at the end of last year that I really wanted to win another one before I die, and I just feel like I manifested this.” This was prevalent throughout all of the stages of the tournament, as he was heard saying that he could just feel like he couldn’t lose.

The UK-born Shanghai resident did not even plan on playing in the tournament, but the private equity broker just happened to be close in Missouri City, where he was tending to a property. “Yeah, 99% of the time, I just play cash, but I saw there was a $1 mil tournament going on, so I just decided to flick it in.”

2024 WPO Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tommy Zhang	$209,730
2	Spencer Champlin	$164,430
3	Andrew Esposito	$131,540
4	Jerry Yen	$78,750
5	Adam Hendrix	$59,910
6	Cedrric Trevino	$48,180
7	David Diaz	$40,000
8	Chris Staats	$31,920
9	Charles Sinn	$24,020

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02-10-2025 15:55 UTC-6

Unlucky Seat Sends Out Beard While Tokko Rockets into the Lead

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Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante

"Wait, can I have that chair please? It's my lucky seat," Samuel Beard said to Erin Parisien as the players were being redrawn into the final three tables. Parisien hesitated for a second but obliged and Beard took his lucky seat...

Then on the very first hand, Beard, who had around 1,100,000, got involved in a preflop betting war with fellow big stack Moe Tokko, which ended when Beard moved all in and Tokko called to put him at risk in a monster pot.

Samuel Beard: K?K?
Moe Tokko: A?A?

"Wow, what a cooler," Beard sighed and shook his head in disbelief as the board ran out 3?10?5?6?4? to give Tokko the win and Beard was sent to the rail.

"Sick seat change," someone said as Beard exited, getting a few chuckles from the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Moe Tokko	2,500,000 1,185,000	1,185,000
Samuel Beard	Busted

Tags: Erin Parisien Moe Tokko Samuel Beard

Level: 19

Blinds: 15,000/25,000

Ante: 25,000

02-10-2025 15:26 UTC-6

Three Table Redraw (full)

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Chip Count	Big Blinds
16	1	Tony Sivorakoune	675,000	34
16	2	James Sunwoo	425,000	21
16	3	Huy Dang-Lam	275,000	14
16	4	Jake White	205,000	10
16	5	Jose Cavazos	350,000	18
16	6	Jonathan Park	620,000	31
16	7	Derek Normand	660,000	33
16	8	Kamoru Yusuf	220,000	11
16	9	Jignesh Patel	310,000	16

17	1	Nicholas Toralba	1,300,000	65
17	2	Benjamin Thomas	110,000	6
17	3	Samuel Beard	1,100,000	55
17	4	Nicolas Molina	240,000	12
17	5	Erin Parisien	685,000	34
17	6	Vladyslav Shovkovyi	925,000	46
17	7	Brian Winter	860,000	43
17	8	Moe Tokko	1,315,000	66
17	9	Aleta Chapman	750,000	38

19	1	Jose Valero	700,000	35
19	2	Trung Pham	905,000	45
19	3	Benjamin Harris	445,000	22
19	4	Kassim Panjwani	1,260,000	63
19	5	Joe Eckford	340,000	17
19	6	Dejaunte Alexander	1,000,000	50
19	7	Sean Cha	665,000	33
19	8	Raj Kumar	1,400,000	70
19	9	Sang Ngo	500,000	25

Player	Chips	Progress
Raj Kumar	1,400,000 105,000	105,000
Moe Tokko	1,315,000 1,098,000	1,098,000
Nicholas Toralba	1,300,000 570,000	570,000
Kassim Panjwani	1,260,000 812,000	812,000
Samuel Beard	1,100,000 825,000	825,000
Dejaunte Alexander	1,000,000 1,000,000	1,000,000
Vladyslav Shovkovyi	925,000 413,000	413,000
Trung Pham	905,000 145,000	145,000
Brian Winter	860,000 595,000	595,000
Aleta Chapman	750,000 466,000	466,000
Jose Valero	700,000 220,000	220,000
Erin Parisien	685,000 512,000	512,000
Tony Sivorakoune	675,000 419,000	419,000
Sean Cha	665,000 280,000	280,000
Derek Normand	660,000 144,000	144,000
Jonathan Park	620,000 323,000	323,000
Sang Ngo	500,000 350,000	350,000
Benjamin Harris	445,000 182,000	182,000
James Sunwoo	425,000 188,000	188,000
Jose Cavazos	350,000 -103,000	-103,000
Joe Eckford	340,000 -70,000	-70,000
Jignesh Patel	310,000 -69,000	-69,000
Huy Dang-Lam	275,000 86,000	86,000
Nicolas Molina	240,000 -35,000	-35,000
Kamoru Yusuf	220,000 -90,000	-90,000

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02-10-2025 15:14 UTC-6

Alexander Knocks Out Neal

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Short-stacked John Neal moved all in preflop and was called by DJ Alexander to put him at risk.

John Neal: A?10?
DJ Alexander: K?3?

Neal was ahead with his ace-high, but the flop of 9?5?K? immediately gave Alexander the lead with top pair. The runout of 7?10? failed to save Neal and he was sent to the rail to collect his payout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dejuante Alexander	905,000 585,000	585,000

John Neal	Busted

Tags: DJ Alexander John Neal

Level: 18

Blinds: 10,000/20,000

Ante: 20,000

02-10-2025 14:43 UTC-6

Nick Toralba Pulls Back-to-Back $5k Bounties!

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Kirk Brown

Level 17 : Blinds 10,000/150,000, 15,000 ante

After securing three bounties, Nick Toralba walked up to the bin to pull all at once...

The first one was the minimum prize of $460 but the second one was a cool $5,000!

Then he went for the third one... and saw a comma...

"Quit playing with me!!" he shouted as he unfolded it to reveal another $5,000!

"Let's GOOOO!" He shouted to the room and gave friend Jonathan Park a high-five," AND I got a milly in chips!"

Tags: Jonathan Park Nick Toralba

02-10-2025 14:27 UTC-6

Updated Stacks (full)

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Kirk Brown

Level 17 : Blinds 10,000/150,000, 15,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Nidal Baba	1,375,000 995,000	995,000
Raj Kumar	1,295,000 716,000	716,000
Trung Pham	760,000 659,000	659,000
Nicholas Toralba	730,000 253,000	253,000
Loong Voong	535,000 286,000	286,000
Derek Normand	516,000
Vladyslav Shovkovyi	512,000
Benjamin Thomas	501,000
Jose Valero	480,000 104,000	104,000
Jose Cavazos	453,000
Kassim Panjwani	448,000
Ethan Doan	416,000
Joe Eckford	410,000 45,000	45,000
Sean Cha	385,000 101,000	101,000
Jignesh Patel	379,000
Dejuante Alexander	320,000 8,000	8,000

Kamoru Yusuf	310,000
Jonathan Park	297,000
Aleta Chapman	284,000
John Neal	283,000
Nicolas Molina	275,000
Samuel Beard	275,000
Brian Winter	265,000 16,000	16,000
Eloy Rios	264,000
Benjamin Harris	263,000

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2025 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

2025 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

Normand Wakes Up With Aces, White Exits

Flashback: Tommy Zhang Wins Champions Club WPO $1,500 Main Event!

2024 WPO Main Event Final Table Results

Unlucky Seat Sends Out Beard While Tokko Rockets into the Lead

Three Table Redraw (full)

Alexander Knocks Out Neal

Nick Toralba Pulls Back-to-Back $5k Bounties!

Updated Stacks (full)