Arizona university professor wins WSOP Monster Stack event

June 29, 2016

A young and relatively inexperienced (in poker) finance professor from the University of Arizona, Dr. Mitchell Towner is $1.12 million wealthier after besting a mammoth field of 6,927 to win his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the main prize in the $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack NLHE event. The massive field, which included many […]

WSOP’s Monster Stack concludes

June 18, 2015

The mammoth five day, 7,192-entry World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in ‘Monster Stack’ NLHE event has produced a winner, with 26-year-old Florida dealer Perry Shiao claiming the $1,286,942 main prize and his first WSOP winner’s bracelet. Shiao, who has been a dealer at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL for the last seven years, […]

Swiss student an instant millionaire at poker tourney

July 1, 2014

Five days ago 22-year-old Swiss Hotel Management grad Hugo Pingray was just another face in a 7,862 entry field for the World Series of Poker event 51 – the inaugural Monster Stack – and one of the smaller stacks to boot. By late Monday night Las Vegas time he was an instant millionaire and the […]