After cashing for over $5 million and profitable his first World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, the strain was on for Chris Hunichen’s Fourth of July mansion get together this summer time to be the most important one but.
“It higher be,” Hunichen informed PokerNews after his bracelet victory. “In any other case, I failed at it. For those who ain’t coming, you’re lacking out.”
Two swimming pools, 4 dwell music units, a magic present, one haul of fireworks, dozens of Vodka bottles, and lots of of plastic purple Solo cups later, it’s secure to say that Huge Huni succeeded.
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Bowling, Beer Pong & Dwell Music
The get together, which was nicely marketed on social media and on customized t-shirts with QR codes linking to the web page to purchase tickets, kicked off at midday on Independence Day with a efficiency by DJ Jared Gross sales, who performed a four-hour set on a stage arrange on the tennis courtroom of the Las Vegas mansion as poker gamers together with Shannon Shorr, Adam Hendrix and Michael Wang made their strategy to the motion.
These on the tennis performed beer bong and cornhole beneath a blazing solar and thumping music, whereas different attendees cooled off from the hundred-plus-degree climate in a sprawling pool outfitted with a basketball hoop, slide and waterfall, simply yards away from a catering tent that includes sizzling canines, hamburgers, macaroni and cheese and different outside gathering classics. The party-goers searching for just a little extra privateness, in the meantime, arrange store on a synthetic sandy seashore on the shore of an auxiliary pool.
And that is simply the outside portion of the get together. Inside Huge Huni’s mansion, lots of extra gamers handled themselves to a full kitchen counter of hors d’oeuvres and a colossal charcuterie board supplied by poker participant and Alternative Charcuterie Co. proprietor Esther Taylor, whereas others took benefit of the two-lane bowling alley and regulation-sized shuffleboard and earlier than shuffling off to a theater room the place the Foremost Occasion was being streamed.
Again on the tennis courtroom, native act Vegas Magic Man took the stage earlier than an ad-lib freestyle efficiency from Frak and the Individuals and a reggae set by Sign Hearth that prolonged previous sundown as an array of fireworks shot into the air above the stage.
Different poker gamers noticed at Huge Huni’s get together included PokerNews Podcast co-hosts Chad Holloway and Kyna England, poker energy couple David Peters and Hayley Hanna, latest WSOPC Commerce champion Jessica Vierling, six-time Circuit ring winner Preston McEwen and European execs Ana Marquez and Daniel Moran.
Sh** Was Epic
The annual July 4th get together got here at an fascinating time in Hunichen’s life. The longtime high-stakes poker participant abruptly misplaced his father final summer time, a loss that was on Hunichen’s thoughts when he received the $100,000 Excessive Curler for $2,838,389 earlier than ending third (for the second time) within the $250,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler for $2,397,312.
“I all the time mentioned if I can’t one up my final get together I’m performed having them!” Hunichen wrote on social media after the get together. “I had a blast and don’t see how I can’t do that once more subsequent 12 months however truthfully I believe we could have peaked! I don’t actually assume I can high that one, sh** was epic!”
*Photographs courtesy Omar Sader
