The Gulf Flee Poker Tour at Pearl River Hotels in Philadelphia, Mississippi wrapped up ideal weekend with Ticket Henderson of Laurel, Mississippi taking down the $600 Milly in Philly Basic Tournament for a payday price $75,566.
The Basic Tournament attracted 990 entries and generated a prize pool factual making an try half of a million at $495,000 to shatter the guarantee of $350,000. These numbers made it the 2d-ideal of 13 events on the tour. Henderson, who now boasts $564,272 in reside tournament earnings in line with The Hendon Mob, agreed to an even-cut with heads-up opponent Hamid Izadi of Marietta, Georgia.
2021 Milly in Philly Basic Tournament Closing Table Outcomes
| PLACE | PLAYER | HOMETOWN | PRIZE (in USD) | |
| 1 | Ticket Henderson | Laurel, MS | $75,566* | |
| 2 | Hamid Izadi | Marietta, GA | $75,566* | |
| 3 | Dallas Pirman | Pearl, MS | $42,570 | |
| 4 | Brandon Robinson | Blytheville, AR | $31,878 | |
| 5 | Joseph Hebert | Metairie, LA | $24,107 | |
| 6 | Matthew Yates | Poplarville, MS | $18,662 | |
| 7 | David Bradshaw | Atlanta, GA | $14,355 | |
| 8 | Luther Tran | Bayou La Batre | $11,385 | |
| 9 | Gavin Munroe | Sir Bernard Law, AL | $8,910 |
*Denotes heads-up deal.
Behold Winners from the 2nd Annual Gulf Flee Poker Award here!
Henderson Victory
Henderson is removed from a newcomer to the Gulf Flee Poker Tour. In 2019, the Mississippian took down Tournament #4: $350 No-Restrict Defend’em Monster Stack at the Pearl River Poker Starting up for $7,640, done 2d in Tournament #7: $350 No-Restrict Defend’em Monster Stack for $2,854, and came in fourth in Tournament #1: $250 No-Restrict Defend’em for $10,116.
A few years earlier, Henderson racked up a third-space kill price $23,142 in Tournament #1: $345 No-Restrict Defend’em Monster Stack at the Gulf Flee Poker Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Henderson also made a deep lunge in the 2021 World Series of Poker Basic Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, taking advantage of a 330th-space kill price $33,900.
Other indispensable southern grinders who cashed in Milly in Philly Basic Tournament but finally came up making an try victory consist of Joseph Herbert (fifth – $24,107), David Bradshaw (7th – $14,355), Luther Tran (eighth – $11,385), Sokchheka Pho (12th – $7,277), Chan Pelton (14th – ($5,940) and Forrest Raleigh (19th – $4,109).
The ideal name in the sphere changed into 2004 WSOP Basic Tournament champion Greg Raymer, who done in 26th space for $2,921. Closing June, “Fossilman” done 2d in $300 No-Restrict Defend’em (Tournament #1) at the Pearl River Summer season Series in Chocktaw for $35,001.
Other Winners
This one year’s Gulf Flee Poker Tour kicked off with the $300 BagWow! Re-entry tournament, which attracted 2,341 total runners for a prize pool of $561,840 to gain it the ideal tournament of the sequence. Benny Morgan of Pell City, Alabama took down the tournament for $55,074 after a heads-up cut with Ticket Davis of Birmingham, Alabama, who received $55,073.
2021 Gulf Flee Poker Tour “Milly in Philly” Outcomes
| DATE | TOURNAMENT | ENTRIES | PRIZE POOL | WINNER | PRIZE | |
| January 6, 2022 | BagWow! Re-entry | 2,341 | $561,840 | Benny Morgan | $55,074 | |
| January 9, 2022 | Girls Tournament | 38 | $7,296 | June Jenkins | $2,554 | |
| January 9, 2022 | Sunday Sizzler | 278 | $66,720 | Kevin Comeens | $11,087 | |
| N/A | Pop Up PLO | 104 | N/A | Larry Barker | $6,718 | |
| January 10, 2022 | Effective Monster Stack 100k Guarantee | 571 | N/A | John Cressend | $35,073 | |
| January 11, 2022 | CelebrityBounty | 202 | $34,340 | Carl Masters | $6,306 | |
| January 12, 2022 | Closing Longer | 250 | $60,000 | Thurmand Boothe | $14,850 | |
| January 13, 2022 | Freezeout | N/A | N/A | Walker Miskelly | $35,425 | |
| January 13, 2022 | Monster Stack | 109 | $109,000 | Peace Shock | $10,872 | |
| January 14, 2022 | Newbies | 139 | N/A | Justin McNeil | $1,652 | |
| January 17, 2022 | Seniors | 179 | $34,368 | Lonny Weitzel | $3,804 | |
| January 17, 2022 | Survivor | 76 | $18,240 | 8 Winners | $2,600 | |
| January 20, 2022 | Basic Tournament | 990 | $495,000 | Ticket Henderson | $75,566 |
Yet another huge winner of the tour changed into Peace Shock of Pearl River, Louisiana, who first took down Tournament #8: $300 No-Restrict Defend’em Monster Stack for $10,872 after which done in the money in Tournament #12: $300 No-Restrict Defend’em Survivor (Tournament #12) for $2,600 to shut the tour out.
Shock, who has racked up $60,197 in reside tournament earnings in line with The Hendon Mob, also made the money in the Basic Tournament, ending in 55th space for $1,485.
It changed into also an ethical tour for Tunica, Mississippi’s Walker Miskelly, who done first in Tournament #7: $1,100 No-Restrict Defend’em Freezeout for $35,425 and later 16th in the Basic Tournament for $4,604. A few months earlier, Miskelly done 48th in the Pearl River Poker Starting up Basic Tournament for $1,243.
Carl Masters of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the intervening time, won the Tournament #5: $200 No-Restrict Defend’em Celeb Bounty for a money of $6,306, whereas also racking up a $3,804 money in Tournament #9: $250 No-Restrict Defend’em Seniors a pair of days later.
10-Device Cleave in Seniors Tournament
Closing one year, poker enthusiasts all around the arena had been intrigued when a rare 11-player cut took space at the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) All Stars Horseshoe Council Bluffs $575 Basic Tournament, with every of the gamers agreeing to the same $26,058 payout.
This one year, a pretty smaller neighborhood of gamers agreed to a 10-procedure cut in Tournament #9: No-Restrict Defend’em Seniors, with every player receiving $3,804 off of their $250 settle-in. Lonny Weitzel of Texarkana, Texas changed into the true winner of the tournament, whereas Michael Miller, Alvin Harris, Michael Benton, Randy Gordon and Huey Hulin had been among other folks that secured a cut.
That’s fascinated in regards to the Gulf Flee Poker Tour at Pearl River Hotels, but the following one is rising from March 17-27.
*Photography courtesy of Gulf Flee Poker Tour.
