Stephen Lofgren Wins The January $10,000 Monthly Championship
Today, here at the VFW in Walpole, one-hundred seventy four players came to play for eight “Wild Card” seats into the Season 33 Finals plus a chance at the $10,000 prize pool.
No stranger to Monthly’s, Stephen Lofgren from the Charity region took down his first Monthly.
He wins $2500 PLUS a “Wild Card” seat into the Season 33 Finals.
Mr. Lofgren plays between Charity, Southern Mass. and our Online region.
Stephen only eliminated two people on this Final Table (Maria Swift -4th and John Beady – 2nd).
He started the Final Table seventh in chips. He chipped up and up and up just enough to get him heads-up with John Beady who had a three to one advantage against Lofgren. Then over the next 45 minutes, John and Stephen went back and forth with chips. Finally, at the 100,000/200,000 level, Beady went all-in with A♣ K♦ while Stephen had 6♠ 9♠.
The flop went 9♦ A♠ J♣. A little bit for everyone.
The turn was the 6♣ now giving Lofgren two pair. John needed an ace or king to stay alive but on the river was the 6♥ to give Stephen a full house to win the tournament.
In a side note – Nada Smith has now “Double Qualified” for the Season Finals with her eighth place finish.
Below are the results from today’s event.
| Players: 174 | |||
| Name | Region | ||
| 1st* | Stephen Lofgren | CH | $2,500.00 |
| 2nd * | John Beady | SM | $1,650.00 |
| 3rd * | Joe Ouellette | SM | $1,200.00 |
| 4th * | Maria Swift | CH | $800.00 |
| 5th * | Nick Spencer | CH | $600.00 |
| 6th * | Tom Belen | RI | $500.00 |
| 7th * | Brian Teehan | GL | $450.00 |
| 8th * | Nada Smith | CM | $400.00 |
| 9th | Muttaqi Dhulkifl | RI | $350.00 |
| 10th | Joseph Sheehan | CH | $250.00 |
| 11th | Paul Valastro | CM | $250.00 |
| 12th | Nancy St. Laurent | RI | $250.00 |
| 13th | Bill Lyons | FR | $200.00 |
| 14th | John Grimes | NS | $200.00 |
| 15th | Kourtney Sims | RI | $200.00 |
| 16th | Wil Porter | CH | $200.00 |
| * Wild Card seat to Season 33 Finals |
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