Garcia wins back-to-back HPT Golden Gate titles..

By RP, February 22, 2017

Texan poker pro Lance Cord Garcia has won his second Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) Golden Gates title for $248,732, besting a total field of 787 and defeating Dan O’Brien in heads up play.

This win comes just five months after he defeated Drazen Ilich to claim the HPT Colorado Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour championship title where he won $164,988.

Final table payouts looked like this:

1 Cord Garcia $248,732
2 Dan O’Brien $153,982
3 Andrew Dean $100,881
4 Saad Vazquez $69,760
5 Zo Karim $50,903
6 Ben Keeline $39,103
7 Ed Sebesta $32,277
8 Justin Enger $26,956
9 Torii Beeding $21,634