Jacob "Jakep474" Perry took down the weekend's biggest single prize in the Garden State after shipping the WSOP NJ/888poker NJ $50,000 Ultimate Warrior for $13,500. This represents his second biggest win playing online poker in New Jersey as in May he hauled in $27,743 after finishing on top of the NJSCOOP-19-H: $1,000 NL Hold'em High Roller [6-Max] on PokerStars NJ under the screenname "SGTPowell" for $27,743 as part of a heads-up deal.
Also having a big day on WSOP NJ and 888poker was Justin "SetMining" Wong, who took down the monthly $30,000 The BIG Deal for $9,947. Wong also managed two other four-digit scores in tournaments on Sunday with at least a $10,000 prize pool including a third place finish in the PokerStars NJ Sunday Warm-Up for $1,249 and a second place finish in the BorgataPoker.com/partypoker NJ Daily $10K for $1,850.
Other notable players on the final table in the $30,000 The BIG Deal included Michael "itWasThatOr0" Gagliano (4th - $3,382), Kevin "SofcknsicKKK" Campbell (5th - $2,686), Jeremy "Jermz" Danger (7th - $2,023), and Jason "LuckDuck" Lawhun (8th - $1,691).
Meanwhile, "sri100k" was the big winner on PokerStars NJ by finishing on top of a 220-entrant field in the Sunday Special to win $10,225. Finishing just behind this player was "SmokenSubaru" (2nd - $7,500) and Ross "rosseg" Gottlieb (2rd - $5,650.
Steven "stevenmadara" Madara also keeps up his winning ways, this weekend claiming a victory in the Sunday $40k Championship Bonus for $8,000. Also on the final table in this tournament were Kevin "KevinRACKS" Roster (2nd - $5,440) and Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken (4th - $3,280)
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*Special thanks to PocketFives.com for some of the data in this article.
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