Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

$1,300 Texas State $1M GTD Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

Event Info
Buy-in
$1,300
Prize Pool
$2,090,700
Entries
1,818
Players Left
3
Average Chip Stack
30,300,000
Total Chips
90,900,000
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
400,000 / 800,000
Ante
800,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
17
Players Left
3

Joon Park Conquers the LSPS Champions Inaugural Texas State Main Event ($271,429)

Level 36 : 400,000/800,000, 800,000 ante
Joon Park
Joon Park

The booming success that was the Inaugural Texas State Main Event has come to it's conclusion after an epic Day 3 of action which saw 17 players play down to the last remaining champion after a chop decision with three players remaining.

Joon Park was the player at the end of the night holding the silver belt buckle for the title and a grand prize of $271,429. The 29 year old South Korea native, attended the University of Texas and now calls the Lone Star State home residing in Austin. He is normally a PLO cash game player, but this victory certainly puts his name on the map as a serious NL Hold'em tournament player as he bested a field of 1,818.

Park began Day 3 12th out of 17 players in chips but started to chip up early. A pivotal moment for him came before the final table when he made a huge call for his tournament life that propelled him in chips and set him up for a run to the title.

Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPrize MoneyHometown
1Joon Park$271,429Austin, TX
2Gabriel Andrade$195,955Houston, TX
3Nick Shkolnik$257,170Sun Valley, CA
4Jared Hemingway$104,375Greenville, TX
5Michael Wang$79,875Livingston, NJ
6Harry Wright$61,375De Queen, AR
7Christopher Doan$45,375Hacienda Heights, CA
8Kevin Kaylor$34,375Houston, TX
9Shawn Rice$26,000Lubbock, TX

Action of the Day

The day began with 17 players, it was fairly swiftly cut down to the final table after only a couple of hours, where the final nine then took a break and headed over to the PokerGo feature table.

Action at the final table was wild as there were several chip swings up and down. Most notably from the enigmatic Jared Hemingway, who went from chip leader, to short stack back to chip leader and back to short stack over a span of emotions and table talk.

Shawn Rice was the final table's first victim when he ran into Hemingway's aces. Kevin Kaylor next hit the rail in eighth place.

End of Day 1 and end of Day 2 chip leader, Christopher Doan was eliminated in seventh place after getting bad beats on two hands that took the entertaining player from top of the charts in chips, to out the door in the span of a few short moments.

Harry Wright was eliminated in sixth place before the most lucrative tournament winning player at the table, Michael Wang, was sent away in fifth place.

Play would grind to a halt four-handed as chips were passed around for about two hours before the aforementioned Hemingway would eventually succumb in fourth place.

The three remaining players then discussed a deal. Nick Shkolnik was chip leader with 40 big blinds, Park second with 33 big blinds and Gabriel Andrade third in chips with 16 big blinds. The decision was made to give each player their ICM money based on chip stack and take out $30,000 to play for along with the title.

After some all in flips, Shkolnik was taken out in third to leave Park vs Andrade for the title which Park won in a mater of moments, using his big stack to finish off the victory.

That wraps it up for the PokerNews coverage of the Lone Star Poker Series after what has been a very fun and enjoyable three weeks of poker action in Houston

Lone Star Poker Series Winners

DateBuy-inTournamentEntriesPrize PoolWinnerPrize
Sunday, April 18$215Event #1: Spring Series Kick-Off409$150,000Gerald Stogner$23,742
Sunday, April 18$400Event #2: $15K Deepstack Almost Freeze Out38$15,000Nick Chin$3,634
Monday, April 19$400Event #3: NLH Senior's Event27$10,000Scott Sanford$3,500
Monday, April19$400Event #4: Manic Monday Double Stack Turbo29$10,000Giovanni Musachio$3,300
Monday, April 19$400Event #5: Limit Horse Deeper Stack Turbo28$10,000Dean Joe$3,049
Tuesday, April 20$500Event #6: Limit Omaha 8 Championshio24$10,200Pedro Rios$4,080
Tuesday, April 20$400Event #7: NLH 6 Max26$10,000Kevin Kaylor$4,000
Wednesday, April 21$400Event #8: The Monster NLH110$35,750Mark Cortez$10,010
Wednesday, April 21$400Event #9: Big Bet 8 Game Mix27$8,000Bryan Evans$3,510
Thursday, April 22$400Event #10: NLH Black Chip Bounty39$15,000Derek Norman$3,885
Thursday, April 22$600Event #11: Spring Series PLO Championship96$48,960David O'Brien$9,874
Friday, April 23$400Event #12: The Ultimate Monster NLH102$33,150Pedro Rios$9,447
Friday, April 23$400Event #13: Pot Limit Big O32$10,400Nick Chin$3,700
Saturday, April 24$400Event #14: Lone Star Surorise Bounty93$47,430Jason Fitzpatrick$13,518
Saturday, April 24$500Event #15: Tag Team Partner Tournament29$12,180Collin Rountree$4,872
Sunday, April 25$600Event #16: “Super” Deep Stack Almost Freeze Out49$24,000Deanna Johnson$6,000
April 27-May 3$1,300Event #17: Texas State $1M GTD Main Event1,818$2,090,700Joon Park$271,429
Sunday, May 2$600Event #18: NLH Spring Series Saver150$76,500Daniel Lowery$15,792
Monday, May 3$400Event #19: NLH Second Chance Send Off86$27,000Michael Lech$8,000

Tags: Christopher DoanGabriel AndradeJared HemingwayJoon ParkKevin KaylorMichael WangNick ShkolnikShawn Rice