Level: 12
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
2009 World Series of Poker Circuit - Council Bluffs
$5,150 Circuit Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker Circuit - Council Bluffs
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$313,950
Entries
67
Level
16
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000
Along with the prize money up for grabs today, the players will be playing for the coveted World Series of Poker championship ring along with an entry to the 2009 Main Event in Las Vegas!
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He's admittedly accomplished losses in poker at the hands of the best and the worst players in the game and according to Hale, "I was prohibited from playing blackjack in Council Bluffs because I am the luckiest S.O.B. in the world!"
Hale comes into the final table with 77,000 chips.
Banghart has excellent results when he crosses the river to come play in Council Bluffs. In 2007, he made the final table here at this same event, taking home $54,000 for his fourth-place showing. Now, he's back at it again in 2009. Banghart took down the first preliminary event of this circuit, pocketing $30,000 right out of the gate. A few days later, he would go deep once again, racking up another final table and a fifth-place score.
"Mr. Rain" knows his way around the online game as well. Each year from 2005 through 2007, Banghart has gone deep in the PokerStars Sunday Million at least once. His best score came in 2006 when he took down the whole thing, good enough to earn him nearly $190,000. All totaled, this grinder has more than $1,000,000 in total online winnings.
Banghart has some work to do today; he will start near the bottom of the pack with 52,000.
Bryan has a wife Donna, who also played in the event here at the Horseshoe in Council Bluffs, along with five children, and three grandchildren. He enters today with 27,500 chips.
This game might become more than a hobby if Sosa can rack up a few more deep finishes like this one. He will begin play in the middle of the pack, sitting squarely on 60,000 chips.
Engel comes into today with 92,000 chips.
"MacDaddy34" begins the final table comfortably in third place. His 203,000 chips are more than double the fourth place stack.