Henry Cooper Wins In His Second Ever Monthly

Henry Cooper, a player from the Framingham Region, won today’s October Monthly Championship.

One hundred and seventy players came out today for a chance to take home not only a piece of the $10,000 prizepool but also a “Wild Card” seat into the Season 34 Finals coming in the Spring of 2025.

Henry’s game was solid all day through.

He came into the Final Table with a slight chip advantage over Rafael Alvarez (760,000 to 620,000).

This twenty-nine year old player has only been playing for just over a year with Eastern Poker thanks to his friend Manny Soto. “I was just trying to play the best hand possible and wanting to get that win.” said Cooper.

Henry acknowledged that he is a cash game player mostly at Encore but enjoys playing Eastern Poker as much.

Sue Pell, was his rail the entire time at the Final Table. “He did great” said Pell. Pell also said that she is “The Grandmother to the Framingham Region” so watching a young man do so well at his first Final Table made her proud.

Honestly, Cooper was never in danger. He only eliminated two people on this Final Table (Jim Gardner-2nd and Eddie Chiu-3rd).

Henry is looking forward on playing more Monthly’s and is learning tournament poker really quick.

We got to the 50,000/100,000 level when play ended where he had a very commanding lead over Jim Gardner. Cooper had 2.7 million at that time.

Jim went all in with A♣ 7♥ vs Henry’s A♥ 10♣.

His Tournament Director for Framingham is none other than Darrius Brown!

When asked what he will do with the money, he said “I just bought a house with my sister. It’s the first mortgage payment!”

On behalf of Glenn, Gretel, Craig and the rest of the Eastern Poker Tour staff, Happy Thanksgiving and we will see everyone again on Saturday December 11th! Dress festive!