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A2016 World Series of Poker Champion
t the end of a grueling eight-hour heads up match, Qui Nguyen, a poker pro from Las Vegas, had written his name into poker’s history books. Nguyen won the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event
on November 1st, earning $8,005,310. e conclusion of poker’s richest and most prestigious poker tournament, the 47th annual World Series of Poker Main Event, went down to the November Nine, the nal nine players of 6,737 participants in the $10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em World Championship.
e remaining eight nalists and their awards are listed below.
e WSOP Main Event nal table results include 2nd place: Gordon Vayo from San Francisco, $4,661,228; 3rd place: Cli Josephy from Syosset, New York, $3,453,035; 4th place: Michael Ruane from Maywood, New Jersey, $2,574,808; 5th place: Vojtech Ruzicka from Prague, $1,934,579; 6th place: Kenny Hallaert from Hansbeke, Belgium, $1,464,258;
7th place: Gri n Benger from Toronto, $1,250,190; 8th place: Jerry Wong from Brooklyn, New York, $1,100,076; and 9th place: Fernando Pons from Palma, Spain, $1,000,000.
LFast Chance for Casino Football Promotion Fun
ootball season is getting close to the end, so make sure you get into the fun football from 10 a.m. Tuesday through 10 a.m. on Sunday
promotions at featured casinos. Some featured casinos’ promotions even include
prize tickets to the biggest annual American sports event, Super Bowl LI on Sunday, February 5th, in Houston, Texas. Here are a few awesome casino football cash and prize promotions available this month.
at any Club Sycuan kiosk. Win your share of over $2,500 in weekly prizes, plus a trip to the Pro Bowl in Orlando on January 29th, or a complete Super Bowl package plus $5,000 cash. See Club Sycuan for details. And be sure to check out Sycuan’s GameDay Football Hot Seats. Watch Monday and ursday Night Football action at GameDay
Sports Bar and Grill and win a Sycuan gift card, Sycuan gear, San Diego Chargers tickets and more! Take a seat during any Monday or ursday night regular season NFL game and at the end of each quarter, if you’re in the Hot Seat, you win. Plus,
the prizes double during all San Diego Chargers games.
And don’t miss the football fun at Sycuan Poker. Be sure to join in on Poker’s Football Fantasy through January 7th, for drawings every hour on ursdays from
1:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., and on Fridays and Saturdays from 1:15 p.m. to 11:15 p.m., with six winnerseachhour. e rsttwo winners every hour will win up
to $300 cash. e remaining winners will receive an entry into the $10,500 Super Cash Saturday. And on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays it’s
2x entries. And are you ready for Football Fever with $100 Rack Attacks for touchdowns, eld goals and more? Plus, Double the Rack Attacks during San Diego Chargers games when they score. See Sycuan Poker for all details.
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At Valley View Casino & Hotel, $10,000 in cash and free slot play is up for grabs in Football Frenzy on Sundays and Mondays. Win cash and free slot play while you watch all the pro football games on the 18-foot video wall and over 100 big screen
tvs throughout the casino. You’ll enjoy food and drink specials including $2 beer, $2 hot dogs and $1 cookies, chips and candy. Plus, 10 winners will be selected at 8:30 p.m. to win $100 to $1,000. For your entries to win, simply swipe your Players Club card at the designated kiosks at the Main Stage Bar starting at 5:30 p.m. each promotion day. Be sure to get in on the Football Frenzy action at Valley View Casino on Sundays and Mondays from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to enjoy all the game-day fun! See Players Club for all details.
At Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa and Spa Resort Casino, win your share of more than $125,000 in
cash and prizes, including a trip
to the Big Game in Houston, Texas in the $125,000 Ultimate
Football Challenge. Play daily through January 1st, by picking the teams you think will win. Weekly top 10 high-scoring players will touch down with cash and prizes. See Paradise Rewards Club for all details. Plus check out the
football promos in the Agua Caliente Casino Poker Room. You can Pick the Score and win a share of $1,400 dollars or more in cash prizes during the pro football broadcast games through January 1st. Eligible Poker Room players will have a chance to pick the total combined score of both teams for each quarter played on select ursday and Sunday Night games. And
in Football High Hand Frenzy, poker players have a chance to win cash prizes every Sunday afternoon during broadcast games. See the Agua Caliente Poker Room for all details.
At Chumash Casino Resort, you’ll want to get into the Poker Room’s Pro Football Pick’em. Play in eligible cash poker
games to get a Pro Football Pick’em card and you could win your share of $75,000 in total prizes! Visit the
PokerRoomformoredetails.
At Sycuan Casino, get in on 17 weeks of football action and weekly cash prizes in Sycuan’s
$100,000 Football Challenge. Play your favorite casino games and then enter your football picks
Qui Nguyen, winner of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event
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