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.

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