Spears Skewered in Set-Over-Set Hand
On Friday, Andy Spears took down the 2014 Western New York Poker Challenge Event #12 $200 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack Turbo for $6,422. That tournament attracted 141 entries to the Seneca Niagara Falls Casino & Hotel and created a prize pool of $22,933.
According to our Ones to Watch preview, the Seneca Poker Room has been Spears' personal playground for the past year. Last August he took down the Summer Slam Series Main Event for $23,700, and a few months later he went wire-to-wire to win the $1,500 Fall Poker Classic Main Event for $52,410. In addition, back In September he claimed his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring in Cincinnati, winning a $365 Turbo tournament for $10,801.
Spears was in today's event looking for another win, but his 2014 Western New York Poker Challenge has officially come to an end after he was on the wrong end of a set-over-set hand (his eights lost to jacks).
"I would if I could," Spears replied when another player jokingly asked him if he would be rebuying. Alas, registration is done, which means Spears is too.
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