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Bill Hough Wins Missouri State Championship

dennis hestand mo250 Bill Hough (Pictured left) who was at the Sin City Showdown National Championship who after getting knocked out vowed to return has made his goal a reality. Bill was able to win the Missouri Vegas or Bust State Championship recently winning his spot at the National Championship on July 4th along with an airfare allowance and a free hotel stay at Hooters Casino. Joining Bill will be Dennis Hestand (pictured right) who came in second. Both players will take their shot at winning one of twelve seats into this years World Series of Poker.

The Lady in Red Wins MO State Championship

Terri Cummings also known as the lady in red recently won the Missouri State Championship. Terri who wears red while playing poker because it's her lucky color continued the heater she's on by placing first at the State Championship. For her win Terri also won the airfare allowance and hotel stay at Harrah's. Coming in second place was Jimmy Greenwell, both players have qualified for the National Championship in Las Vegas on December 3rd.

Bill Hough Is Bubble Boy Winner

thebubbleek8 Earlier this month at the Missouri State Championship, Bill Hough got extremely close to qualifying for the Sin City Showdown by finishing third. However, it was the top two players that qualified for the National Championship sending Bill home in third place and just missing out. Luckily for Bill the dream wasn't over. At all the state championships every player received a chance to play against each other for yet another chance at qualifying for the National Final.

Trent Beebe and Ken Edghill Survive in Missouri

The Missouri State Final was held May 1st at the Flaming Lantern in Butler. Twenty one players out of twenty five qualifiers were in attendance for the big game where 2 spots in the Sin City Showdown were up for grabs including airfare and hotel accommodations for first place. The game started out with early play being aggressive and players trying to build up their chip stacks right from the start. The first casualty was in the first hand when Martin Ambrozi doubled the big blind and several players called including the BB, Ken Edghill who was one of two players to be doubled stack to start the final....

Clark's Place To Host Fall Playoffs

Clark's Place in Harrisonville will host the regional playoffs for the fall qualifiers of the Sin City Showdown-WSOP SATURDAY, JAN 22ND starting at 12:30pm. 35 players have qualified for this event. Good luck!

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