Record Breaking Poker Event

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The very first event of the L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino has wrapped up but not before records were broken. This $355 buy-in event was the largest tournament ever at the casino with 5,847 but the winner was even more impressive.

Darrell Cain has used up all of his chips and thought that he was a goner when someone noticed that he actually had eight chips left on the table. He was called back to the table and went on to win! He took home $363,936.

"It's unbelievable," said Cain. "Those eight little green chips...Man, the good lord was looking over me. I'm just elated." Cain, who was taught to play poker by his father, will split the proceeds from his victory with his dad. "That's just the way we do it. We are a team at playing poker."

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Commerce Casino is known for providing poker enthusiasts relatively small buy-ins with large prize pool guarantees. The guarantee for this first event in the 51 tournament series was $1 million. Cain's return on investment was 1086%. The other final table players sharing in the prize money were:

1 Darrell Cain, Sacramento, CA $363,936
2 Amir Ghazvinian, Reseda, CA $189,480
3 Joel Tushnett, Reseda, CA $107,970
4 Michael Blocksidge, Rocky River, OH $88,220
5 Andreas Dassopoulos, Rch Cucamonga, CA $68,470
6 Michael Woo, Hacienda Heights, CA $55,300
7 Abraham Barbarian, North Hills, CA $42,140
8 Scott Takeshita, Chino, CA $28,970
9 Charlie Ng, Camarillo, CA $21,070

Congrats goes out to all of the lucky ones listed here. They all went home winners!

[ClassyTouch]

It was meant for him to win, no doubt about it!! Congrats to him, and may he continue to win.