Jason Brin Wins Inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event

The inaugural World Poker Tour Choctaw $3,700 no-limit hold’em main event featured a $2 million guaranteed prize pool, which was easily surpassed when 1,175 entries were made to build a final prize pool of $3,989,125.

In the end the lion’s share of that was awarded to Jason Brin, a 42-year-old carpet store owner from De Soto, KS. For the win he earned his first WPT title, the $682,975 first-place prize and 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points in the first WPT event he ever played.

Brin topped a star studded final table, defeating 2013 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open main event champion Andy Hwang heads-up for the title. Hwang earned $468,105 as the runner up, bringing his career live tournament earnings to just shy of $1.5 million.

Two-time WPT champion Darren Elias finished third for $303,593 at his fourth WPT final table. He now has more than $3.2 million in live tournament earnings, with $1.5 coming in WPT events alone.

2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 high roller champ Jake Schindler finished
fourth for $224,913. Mina Greco fell just short in her quest to become the first open-event female WPT champion, finishing fifth for $167,691.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

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