Final weekend, the Hold Reminiscence Alive Charity Poker Match passed off on the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Heart for Mind Well being close to downtown Las Vegas. The annual occasion is hosted by Daniel Negreanu and Jack Binion, who was truly the defending champ.
The $800 buy-in occasion included a poker event, but in addition wine and spirit tastings, delectable meals, leisure, and a raffle with high-end prizes. The evening attracted a number of luminaries, together with a Nevada Supreme Court docket Justice, in addition to a number of poker personalities together with 2013 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Important Occasion champ Ryan Riess, Joey Ingram, poker agent Brian Balsbaugh, poker veteran Yosh Nakano, and emcee Sean McCormack.
Negreanu managed to make all of it the way in which down the final 9 gamers however misplaced a flip to turn into the primary closing desk casualty.
The occasion – which was sponsored partly by Poker Royalty, CardPlayer Journal, and El Dorado Cantini – awarded prizes to the highest three finishers, and after Riess bubbled in fourth place, the remaining gamers have been “within the cash.” The third-place finisher received 4 VIP tickets to a Las Vegas Golden Knights Recreation, and that left Ladies in Poker Corridor of Famer Terry King to do battle in opposition to Las Vegas retiree Greg Bruce.
The latter had an enormous chip benefit and closed issues out a short while later claiming the $10,000 money prize. In the meantime, King received a Palms & Sourthen Highlands prize package deal valued at $8,850 for ending because the runner-up.
All proceeds from the evening benefitted the Hold Reminiscence Alive and Lou Ruvo Heart for Mind Well being, at Cleveland Clinic Nevada, which goals to seek out, fund, and facilitate the simplest and modern analysis and caregiver programming for sufferers and their households. The Hold Reminiscence Alive Occasion Heart, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, is positioned simply two miles north of the Las Vegas Strip and simply down the street from downtown’s Fremont Avenue district.
Take a look at some images from the particular evening right here:
*Pictures courtesy of Hold Reminiscence Alive.
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