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 |