Parx Poker Tournament Results

The biggest buy-in event on the Parx Big Stax XXVI poker tournament series schedule wrapped up this past weekend at Parx Casino with a Harrisburg player collecting the title and a six-figure score.

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In fact, Chris Kennedy, a cash game pro from the state capitol, won the Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500 for a whopping $124,211. Kennedy got the best of a final table that included back-to-back Big Stax 300 champ Joe Palma.

Philadelphia's Palma won the Big Stax 300 at Big Stax XXI in May 2017 for $60,675. He then got the title, trophy, and $120,000 in a four-way chop in the Parx Big Stax XXII 300 in August 2017.

2018 Parx Casino Recurring Tournaments. Bensalem, PA, United States. No Limit Hold'em - Thursday Night Survivor Dec 27, 2018 Parx Casino: $100 + 20: 1 st: 138: $937: 33.17 pts — SugarRush Challenge. Philadelphia, PA, United States. No Limit Hold'em - SugarRush Challenge Dec 5 - 9, 2018 SugarHouse Casino: $205 + 45: 69 th: 831: $484: 14.26. What's really impressive about that statistic is the fact that Gregg won his $416,127 in one tournament (WPT Parx Poker Classic), with Grabel's $323,003 coming over years of consistent results. Joe 'Worm' Palma (Bensalem, PA) could be said to be one of the 'faces' of the Parx Poker Room, boasting a resume with over $563,000 in tournament earnings.

However, in this week's Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500, Palma finished third for $51,012. Kennedy went on to defeat Thai Ha heads up. Ha settled for $78,380 in second-place money.

Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500 final table results

The event drew 371 total entries, creating what amounted to a $539,805 prize pool.

Solve For Why Academy poker coach Christian Soto-Vasquez finished fifth for $27,530. Here's how the entire final table finished up:

• 1st Chris Kennedy $124,211
• 2nd Thai Ha $78,380
• 3rd Joe Palma $51,012
• 4th Agenor Souza $36,653
• 5th Christian Soto-Vasquez $27,530
• 6th David DeNoon $20,836
• 7th Anna Antimony $15,924
• 8th Spencer Champlin $11,552
• 9th Filippos Stavrakis $7,881

The Big Stax XXVI 1500 final table

According to the Parx Big Stax Blog, Stavrakis took ninth when Ha turned quads and faded Stavrakis' open-ended straight flush draw. Champlin ran pocket nines into Kennedy's aces to bow out eighth. Last-woman standing Anna Antimony took seventh when Ha drew out against her weak ace.

The final table was down to five when David DeNoon's eights failed to hold against Kennedy's two overs. Then, it took a classic cooler to end Soto-Vasquez' run in fifth. His pocket kings were bested by Palma's pocket aces.

Ha took most of Souza's stack turning a set of eights and filling up on the river against him. Kennedy took the rest when his own pocket eights held against Souza's weak-ace shove.

Palma took third when his king-ten suited whiffed versus Kennedy's queens.

Finally, Ha turned trip threes and a king-high diamond flush draw, getting it in against Kennedy's naked nut flush draw. A fourth diamond on the river sealed the win for Kennedy.

Parx Big Stax XXVI

Last week, prior to the Big Stax XXVI 1500, Tinzen Chakdor was declared Big Stax XXVI 500 champ after a four-way chop. Chakdor earned $69,850 for the win.

Additionally, David Mock was declared Big Stax XXVI 300 champion after a three-way chop. Mock earned $95,364.

This week, the Parx Big Stax XXVI series wrapped up with a $300 Pot-Limit Omaha and No-Limit Hold'em mixed event, a $300 Seniors event, a $300 Survivor event, and two bounty tournaments.

Parx is just 15 miles outside Philadelphia. It is the top poker destination in the Commonwealth.

Parx has hosted its Parx Big Stax poker tournament series since February 2013. The series runs five times annually in February, May, August, October, and December. It is the largest tournament poker series in Pennsylvania and one of the biggest in the entire Northeast.

Additionally, Parx is home to the highest-grossing live poker room in the state. In January 2018, the poker room moved into a new 48-table location inside the main casino building.

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The heads-up match for the Parx Big Stax 500 Championship, a tournament that attracted 1,496 entrants, began with Joel Deutsch facing a 52-million to seven-million chip deficit against Kenny Huynh. It ended, after a 19-hour day, with Deutsch coming out on top after a heads-up battle for the ages.

Deutsch rode the rollercoaster and staved off elimination multiple times over a two-hour match, scoring a $126,995 payday at the end of a grueling final day at Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

Deustch was short stacked for most of three-handed play and beyond, but came away with the biggest score of his career.

Deutsch, Huynh (2nd - $80,298), and Bosu Avunoori (3rd - $52,300) were the final three, with Huynh and Avunoori holding most of the chips. In a span of one big hand, followed by another final duel between Huynh and Avunoori, and heads-up play was set.

'I had nothing to lose,' said Deutsch of the heads-up battle. 'I'm thinking one thing; I've got second place. I didn't picture this.'

Penguin style slot online. Deutsch chipped away at the lead and won a couple of big pots, at one point he avoided elimination with jack-ten offsuit in a preflop all in against Huynh's ace-jack.

'It kept getting better from there,' said Deutsch. 'I really got some momentum going.'

Final Table Results

Long Grind to the Final Table

Day 3 started with 42 players, and it took nearly 11 hours to reach the nine-handed final table. Coming back from dinner break, 14 players remained, and it took another hour after that for the next elimination, with David Clarke going out in 14th place ($6,182).

Two more eliminations happened within the following hour, but after that, the tournament remained an 11-player affair for another two-plus hours.

The floodgates broke in Level 31, however, with Adam Pepper (11th -$7,888) and Joey Deforca (10th- $7,888) going out within minutes of each other, sending the remaining nine players to the final table.

Bouyan Han (9th - $10,019) went out on one of the first hands of the final table, trimming the field down to eight.

Final Table Action

Jeffrey Giordano Sugarhouse casino employee self service. was next to go, taking eighth place after suffering a knockout at the hands of Avunoori.

Things started to get wild at the final table after that, with William Corvino (7th - $16,557) and Sumeet Wayachal (6th - $21,53) both knocked out in the same hand by Avunoori. The trio got into a three-way preflop all in with Avunoori's pocket kings holding up to eliminate both opponents.

Shortly after that, Michael Wolf (5th - $28,637) found himself on the wrong end of a set-over-set cooler, losing his stack to Huynh when Wolf's eights full were bested by Huynh's queens full.

Four-handed play continued to involve big pots, including a massive pot won by Deutsch in a hand that began with Deutsch limping in from the cutoff, and eventually taking down a nearly 10-million chip pot at Michael Michnik's expense. Michnik went out a few hands later.

'I had nothing to lose,' said Deutsch of the heads-up battle. 'I'm thinking one thing; I've got second place. I didn't picture this.'

Penguin style slot online. Deutsch chipped away at the lead and won a couple of big pots, at one point he avoided elimination with jack-ten offsuit in a preflop all in against Huynh's ace-jack.

'It kept getting better from there,' said Deutsch. 'I really got some momentum going.'

Final Table Results

Long Grind to the Final Table

Day 3 started with 42 players, and it took nearly 11 hours to reach the nine-handed final table. Coming back from dinner break, 14 players remained, and it took another hour after that for the next elimination, with David Clarke going out in 14th place ($6,182).

Two more eliminations happened within the following hour, but after that, the tournament remained an 11-player affair for another two-plus hours.

The floodgates broke in Level 31, however, with Adam Pepper (11th -$7,888) and Joey Deforca (10th- $7,888) going out within minutes of each other, sending the remaining nine players to the final table.

Bouyan Han (9th - $10,019) went out on one of the first hands of the final table, trimming the field down to eight.

Final Table Action

Jeffrey Giordano Sugarhouse casino employee self service. was next to go, taking eighth place after suffering a knockout at the hands of Avunoori.

Things started to get wild at the final table after that, with William Corvino (7th - $16,557) and Sumeet Wayachal (6th - $21,53) both knocked out in the same hand by Avunoori. The trio got into a three-way preflop all in with Avunoori's pocket kings holding up to eliminate both opponents.

Shortly after that, Michael Wolf (5th - $28,637) found himself on the wrong end of a set-over-set cooler, losing his stack to Huynh when Wolf's eights full were bested by Huynh's queens full.

Four-handed play continued to involve big pots, including a massive pot won by Deutsch in a hand that began with Deutsch limping in from the cutoff, and eventually taking down a nearly 10-million chip pot at Michael Michnik's expense. Michnik went out a few hands later.

That concludes our coverage of the Big Stax 500 event, but the Parx Big Stax XXXII continues this weekend with the Big Stax 1100 tournament, which we'll also live report.

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