{"id":12566,"date":"2018-08-24T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:47:55","slug":"harrisburg-poker-player-wins-heaping-helping-at-parx-poker-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/harrisburg-poker-player-wins-heaping-helping-at-parx-poker-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrisburg Poker Player Wins Heaping Helping At Parx Poker Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest buy-in event on the <strong>Parx Big Stax XXVI<\/strong> poker tournament series schedule wrapped up this past weekend at <strong>Parx Casino<\/strong> with a Harrisburg player collecting the title and a six-figure score.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>Chris Kennedy<\/strong>, a cash game pro from the state capitol, won the <strong>Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500<\/strong> for a whopping<strong> $124,211<\/strong>. Kennedy got the best of a final table that included back-to-back <strong>Big Stax 300<\/strong> champ <strong>Joe Palma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia\u2019s Palma won the Big Stax 300 at <strong>Big Stax XXI<\/strong> in May 2017 for $60,675. He then got the title, trophy, and $120,000 in a four-way chop in the <strong>Parx Big Stax XXII 300<\/strong> in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>However, in this week\u2019s Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500, Palma finished third for $51,012. Kennedy went on to defeat <strong>Thai Ha<\/strong> heads up. Ha settled for $78,380 in second-place money.<\/p>\n<h2>Parx Big Stax XXVI 1500 final table results<\/h2>\n<p>The event drew 371 total entries, creating what amounted to a $539,805 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solve For Why Academy<\/strong> poker coach <strong>Christian Soto-Vasquez<\/strong> finished fifth for $27,530. Here\u2019s how the entire final table finished up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Chris Kennedy $124,211<\/li>\n<li>2nd Thai Ha $78,380<\/li>\n<li>3rd Joe Palma $51,012<\/li>\n<li>4th Agenor Souza $36,653<\/li>\n<li>5th Christian Soto-Vasquez $27,530<\/li>\n<li>6th David DeNoon $20,836<\/li>\n<li>7th Anna Antimony $15,924<\/li>\n<li>8th Spencer Champlin $11,552<\/li>\n<li>9th Filippos Stavrakis $7,881<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The\u00a0Big Stax XXVI 1500 final table<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/parxbigstax.blog\/\"><strong>Parx Big Stax Blog<\/strong><\/a>, Stavrakis took ninth when Ha turned quads and faded Stavrakis\u2019 open-ended straight flush draw. Champlin ran pocket nines into Kennedy\u2019s aces to bow out eighth. Last-woman standing Anna Antimony took seventh when Ha drew out against her weak ace.<\/p>\n<p>The final table was down to five when David DeNoon\u2019s eights failed to hold against Kennedy\u2019s two overs. Then, it took a <strong>classic cooler<\/strong> to end Soto-Vasquez\u2019 run in fifth. His pocket kings were bested by Palma\u2019s pocket aces.<\/p>\n<p>Ha took most of Souza\u2019s stack turning a set of eights and filling up on the river against him. Kennedy took the rest when his own pocket eights held against Souza\u2019s weak-ace shove.<\/p>\n<p>Palma took third when his king-ten suited whiffed versus Kennedy\u2019s queens.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Ha turned trip threes and a king-high diamond flush draw, getting it in against Kennedy\u2019s naked nut flush draw. A fourth diamond on the river <strong>sealed the win<\/strong> for Kennedy.<\/p>\n<h2>Parx Big Stax XXVI<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, prior to the Big Stax XXVI 1500, <strong>Tinzen Chakdor<\/strong> was declared <strong>Big Stax XXVI 500<\/strong> champ after a four-way chop. Chakdor earned <strong>$69,850<\/strong> for the win.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <strong>David Mock<\/strong> was declared <strong>Big Stax XXVI 300<\/strong> champion after a three-way chop. Mock earned <strong>$95,364<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Parx Big Stax XXVI series wrapped up with a $300 Pot-Limit Omaha and No-Limit Hold\u2019em mixed event, a $300 Seniors event, a $300 Survivor event, and two bounty tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Parx is just 15 miles outside <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong>. It is\u00a0<strong>the top poker destination in the Commonwealth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Parx has hosted its Parx Big Stax poker tournament series since February 2013. The series runs<strong> five times annually<\/strong> in February, May, August, October, and December. It is the largest tournament poker series in Pennsylvania and one of the biggest in the entire Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Parx is home to the <strong>highest-grossing live poker room<\/strong> in the state. In January 2018, the poker room moved into a new 48-table location inside the main casino building.<\/p>\n<p>The post Harrisburg Poker Player Wins Heaping Helping At Parx Poker Event appeared first on Play Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest buy-in event on the Parx Big Stax XXVI poker tournament series schedule wrapped up this past weekend at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/harrisburg-poker-player-wins-heaping-helping-at-parx-poker-event\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harrisburg Poker Player Wins Heaping Helping At Parx Poker Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,372,373],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","6":"category-news-category","7":"category-player","8":"category-tournament","9":"post_format-post-format-link","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harrisburg Poker Player Wins Heaping Helping At Parx Poker Event -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/harrisburg-poker-player-wins-heaping-helping-at-parx-poker-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harrisburg Poker Player Wins Heaping Helping At Parx Poker Event -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The biggest buy-in event on the Parx Big Stax XXVI poker tournament series schedule wrapped up this past weekend at&hellip; 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