2009 World Series of Poker Circuit - Council Bluffs

$5,150 Circuit Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 World Series of Poker Circuit - Council Bluffs

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a7
Prize
$113,020
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$313,950
Entries
67
Level Info
Level
16
Blinds
8,000 / 16,000
Ante
2,000

Seat 7: Jeff Banghart (52,000)

Jeff Banghart
Jeff Banghart
Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart is one of our local guys from Omaha, Nebraska, and the home-field advantage has been working out well so far. By day, Banghart owns a lawn sprinkler company, but on nights and weekends, he hits the felt hard. At age 47, Banghart says he's already been playing poker for 35 years.

Banghart has excellent results when he crosses the river to come play in Council Bluffs. In 2007, he made the final table here at this same event, taking home $54,000 for his fourth-place showing. Now, he's back at it again in 2009. Banghart took down the first preliminary event of this circuit, pocketing $30,000 right out of the gate. A few days later, he would go deep once again, racking up another final table and a fifth-place score.

"Mr. Rain" knows his way around the online game as well. Each year from 2005 through 2007, Banghart has gone deep in the PokerStars Sunday Million at least once. His best score came in 2006 when he took down the whole thing, good enough to earn him nearly $190,000. All totaled, this grinder has more than $1,000,000 in total online winnings.

Banghart has some work to do today; he will start near the bottom of the pack with 52,000.

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