After defeating a tough field of 480 players over three days, Sam Barnhart took down the 2011 WSOPC Tunica Main Event, to claim the title, and claim the $148,612 first place prize.

In a change from last year’s $5,150 entry fee which attracted only 96 players, the now adjusted $1,600 buy-in saw a much larger field turn out for the Main Event to generate a prize pool of $698,400.

However, by the end of Day 1, only 111 hopefuls remained, which was further lessened to a final table of nine after the completion of Day 2.

The chip frontrunner going into the final day’s play was John Nguyen on a 2.3m stack, next to him was by Kurt Jewell with 1.85 mil and Mary Harden on 1.28 mil. If you want to maximize your enjoyment of the UB online poker website, you need to make sure that you use a UB Referral Code during the signup process.

Half an hour into heads-up play amongst Jesse White and Sam Barnhar, White re-raised his opponent all-in holding Jc-10c just to see Barnhar with pocket kings. The low board brought no relief to Jesse White, who claimed $91,881 for his runner-up finish, while Sam Barnhar was capped the WSOPC Tunica Main Event champion and collected the winners ring and $148,612 for his hard fought efforts. A UB bonus code is a sequence, typically of letters and numbers, that is used by a player when signing up for an online poker website.