Barnette is this year’s casino employee poker champ at WSOP

May 29, 2015

Pechanga Casino poker supervisor Brandon Barnette (29) has won the first event in this year’s World Series of Poker, the $565 buy-in Casino Employees NLHE competition, after besting a field of 687 other hopefuls who generated a prize pool of $344,000. His reward is a prize of $75,704 and a prestigious WSOP gold winner’s bracelet. […]