Andre Allen Comes Back from One Big Blind to Win RGPS Joplin Main Event
Level 9
: Blinds 1,000/1,500, 1,500 ante
Andre Allen was down to one big blind at one point in the day at Downstream Casino Resort, but climbed back to win the RunGood Poker Series Joplin $600 Main Event for $60,972 and his second RGPS Main Event ring.
The victory comes nearly a year after Allen took down his hometown RGPS Kansas City Main Event for a career-best $86,550, and more than a decade after the first RunGood stop in Joplin.
��This one feels good because in 2012 when RunGood first started down here in Joplin, I want to say I was one of the first Kansas Citians here," he told PokerNews. "And so it feels good to win it in the first place that RunGood started.��
2024 RGPS Joplin Main Event Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Hometown | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andre Allen | Kansas City | $60,972 |
| 2 | William Fisher | Broken Arrow | $37,975 |
| 3 | Jackson Turrentine | Shawnee Mission, KS | $27,549 |
| 4 | Ashley Frank | Arizona | $20,568 |
| 5 | Vincent Meyer | Shawnee Mission, KS | $15,532 |
| 6 | Lucas Hughes | Buffalo, MO | $11,893 |
| 7 | David Greufe | Kansas City, MO | $9,228 |
| 8 | Byron Abernathy | Grove, OK | $7,256 |
| 9 | Jared Schoonover | Cave Springs, AR | $5,783 |