Campbell Wins HPT, Sowers Joins TPE, RunGood Announces Team

Roger Campbell Wins HPT St. Louis

The latest Heartland Poker Tour tournament wrapped up this week in St. Louis, Missouri. The $1,650 buy-in Main Event brought 381 players to the tables at the River City Casino, creating a prize pool of $548,640. The top 36 players were paid.

On April 28, the final table played out with final table regular Stan Jablonski in the running, though he finished fourth. The 62-year-old Roger Campbell took his satellite investment of $375 and turned it into an HPT title and more than $131K. The final table payouts were:

1^st place: Roger Campbell ($131,681)

2^nd place: Vermin Becirbegovic ($79,882)

3^rd place: Jordan Jayne ($53,492)

4^th place: Stan Jablonski ($37,308)

5^th place: Noah Weinberger ($27,981)

6^th place: Phillip Youngclaus (21,946)

7^th place: Johnna Stewart ($18,554)

8^th place: Jonathan Dahlberg ($15,362)

9^th place: Jeffrey Landherr ($13,167)

Information is courtesy of the HPT website.

Mike Sowers Joins Tournament Poker Edge

Mike Sowers, also known online as “SowersUNCC” is the latest poker pro to join Tournament Poker Edge as a video instructor. At only 26, he is one of the most accomplished online poker pros with more than $3 million in winnings to date, as well as more than $2.5 million in live winnings. He joins pros like Jamie Kerstetter, Lee Childs, Casey Jarzabek, Andrew Brokos, Mike Leah, and Justin Pechie, among many others.

Sowers’ first series of videos will be available on the website on May 2.

RunGoodGear Announces WSOP Team

RunGoodGear.com, an online poker apparel store, has collected a group of poker pros to represent its RunGood team this summer at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. According to the company’s CEO, the team represents different parts of the poker world, and the list is comprised of the following pros: Alex Phahurat, Clint Tolbert, Brent Hanks, Justin Gardenhire, Lauren Kling, Huy Nguyen, Arthur Morris, Bryan Campanello, Bernard Lee, Jamie Kerstetter, Chris Conrad, and Michael Sanders.