2023 RGPS Kansas City

$1,100 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2023 RGPS Kansas City

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$86,550
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$200,000
Entries
497
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
60
Players Left
1

Andre Allen Emerges Victorious in RGPS Kansas City Main Event ($86,550)

Level 30 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Andre Allen
Andre Allen

After a marathon day of poker, Andre Allen has been crowned the winner of the RGPS Kansas City Main Event after a chop dea with Casey Henry. He was awarded $86,550, the RGPS champions ring, and the Dream Seat in Las Vegas for later this year. Henry was awarded $75,000 (more than second-place money) for his efforts.

When Allen was asked why he decided to chop, he responded with:

“Man, to be honest, I've been chasing this ring for eight years, plus my son graduated today, so I wanted both of us to come home a winner.”

Allen is no stranger to tournaments with over $200,000 in live cashes according to The Hendon Mob, but this is his largest score to date as his previous record was $59,356 from a WSOP Circuit Baltimore score in 2016.

When the 43-year-old Kansas City native isn't cashing tournaments, he runs a barber shop in the Kansas City Airport called Director’s Cut Take II with his partner Armon Lasker. When asked what he planned to do with his winnings, he said he would put most of it back into his business and make several crypto investments (and also pad his WSOP bankroll).

RGPS Kansas City Main Event Final Table Results

PlacePlayerPrize
1Andre Allen$86,550*
2Casey Henry$75,000*
3Jesse Jones$42,850
4Jason Brin$29,713
5Jackson Turrentine$22,827
6Iman Alsaden$19,043
7Saied Moradi$15,859
8Matthew Snook $12,719
9Joseph McCaig$9,574

*indicates chop deal

Throughout the day, it was Saied Moradi and Jesse Jones that were the forces to be reckoned with, amassing large piles of chips early in the day and keeping it as such all the way to the final table. They were first and second in chips going into the final table, Moradi with 3,310,000 and Jones with 3,135,000. Things went downhill for Moradi when he made a huge bluff on the river against Allen, but he could sniff it out and made the call with top pair. Left short, Moradi busted soon after in seventh place, followed by Iman Alsaden when her ace-ten couldn't improve against Jason Brin’s pocket fours.

Final Table
Final Table

After Jackson Turrentine busted with ace-nine versus Brin’s pocket nines, Allen caught fire by picking up pocket aces to bust Brin in fourth a few hands later. Then the hand of the night occurred, when big stacks Jones and Allen got it all in preflop, Jones with pocket treys, Allen with ace-king. Allen flopped top pair of kings but Jones flopped bottom set on the king-three-nine board for a huge lead. Miraculously, Allen went runner-runner king-nine to make a bigger boat on the river and busted Jones in third place. That’s when he and Henry made the deal and he was crowned champion of the $1,100 Main Event.

Allen’s win concludes PokerNews’ coverage of the RGPS Kansas City Series, which has been a tremendous success here at Harrah’s Casino.

Harrah's Kansas City
Harrah's Kansas City

Tags: Andre AllenCasey HenryIman AlsadenJackson TurrentineJason BrinJesse JonesJoseph McCaigMatthew SnookSaied Moradi