2015 CarbonPoker Card Player Player of the Year Update -- Jason Koon and Josh Turner WinA Look At The Biggest Poker Tournament Results Of The Week |
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March is here, and the 2015 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by CarbonPoker, is Marching forward. Here is a look at the events that made the largest impact over the past seven days:
L.A. Poker Classic $50,000 Six-Max NLH High Roller
The L.A. Poker Classic tried out a new event with this year’s schedule: a $50,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller six-max tournament. The event drew a total of 31 entries to build a $1,534,500 prize pool. As is often the case in high roller events, slightly more than the top 10 percent of the field made the money, with the top five finishers cashing.
After the final hand came down the lone survivor from the tough field was Jason Koon. Just a week after winning the PokerStars Super Tuesday online for $11,699 the poker pro scored another huge win, taking home $436,345 for his largest live tournament score. His live earnings now exceed $3 million.
Koon also nabbed 510 POY points, enough to put him in 135th place in the rankings.
Koon made a chip-chop deal three handed with J.C. Tran (2nd – $373,218) and Connor Drinan (3rd – $371,997) that spread the prize pool around between them and left $30,000 and the title to play for.
World Series of Poker Circuit Lumiere Place
The latest stop on the World Series of Poker Circuit took place the Lumiere Place Casino & Hotel in St. Louis, MO. The centerpiece of the whole affair was the "$1,675 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. ":http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/4902-2014-2015-wsop-circuit-lumiere-place/1107910/results A final total of 415 entries were made in the tournament to build a total prize pool of $622,500.
In the end the last player standing was St. Louis local Joshua Turner. At his fifth cash and second final table showing of the WSOP Circuit Lumiere Place series he was finally able to break through and capture a title. For the win he earned his first WSOPC gold ring and the $136,945 first-place prize.
Turner was also awarded 720 Player of the Year points, enough to see him climb to 63rd place in the overall POY standings. This was Turner’s seventh career tournament title and by far his largest single score. He now has $445,277 in career live earnings.
Here is a look at the current top 20 in the POY standings:
| Rank | Player | POY Points | Earnings |
| 1 | Kevin Schulz | 2,280 | $1,491,580 |
| 2 | Joe Kuether | 2,140 | $1,177,722 |
| 3 | Manny Stavropoulos | 2,100 | $1,270,283 |
| 4 | Diego Ventura | 1,900 | $907,080 |
| 5 | Jose Ivan Montes | 1,872 | $593,192 |
| 6 | Lennart Uphoff | 1,750 | $793,927 |
| 7 | Ognyan Dimov | 1,680 | $616,376 |
| 8 | Scott Seiver | 1,610 | $1,989,615 |
| 9 | Chance Kornuth | 1,520 | $641,140 |
| 10 | Ilkin Garibli | 1,512 | $1,105,040 |
| 11 | Brian Altman | 1,440 | $723,008 |
| 11 | Anthony Zinno | 1,440 | $252,420 |
| 13 | Kelly Minkin | 1,405 | $321,247 |
| 14 | Joel Douaglin | 1,400 | $500,174 |
| 14 | Dany Parlafes | 1,400 | $383,974 |
| 16 | Josh Kay | 1,368 | $367,928 |
| 16 | Aaron Mermelstein | 1,368 | $712,305 |
| 18 | Mark Bailey | 1,200 | $168,285 |
| 18 | Mark Dube | 1,200 | $434,462 |
| 20 | Martin Finger | 1,140 | $223,900 |
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