MOON RISES TO HPT EAST CHICAGO TITLE

Chris Moon started today with the biggest stack and ended with every chip in play to win the @HPTpoker East Chicago Main Event. Moon earns $187,399 – including a $3,500 HPT Season XV Championship Package for the victory.

Moon defeated Art Zverkhovskyy heads-up for the title, with Zverkhovskyy earning $113,605 as runner-up. 

Moon came to the final table with 6.1 million of the 17.1 million chips in play and he never let up, maintaining the chiplead for every hand at the final table. Moon eliminated the players in eighth (Dennis Ng), seventh (Paul Elfelt), fifth (Bryant Miller) and fourth place (Craig Casino), before winning the tournament’s final hand. 

Aces cracked was the mode in the middle of the tournament. Eric Salazar used Q-9 to crack the Aces of Mike O’Neill, leaving O’Neill just 1SB and he was out two hands later. Salazar had his own Aces cracked two orbits later by Zverkhovskyy, taking all but 900,000 of the chips he won not much earlier.

Salazar finished third, cashing for $74,456 as he was knocked out by Zverkhovskyy. Moon was the only player able to have his Aces hold in an all-in situation, eliminating Bryant Miller in fifth place. 

Mr. HPT – Craig Casino, No. 1 on the All-time HPT Money List – moved to more than $1 million in career poker tournament earnings with his fourth-place finish and $51,735 cash 

Among the players who cashed in the HPT East Chicago Main Event was four former HPT East Chicago Main Event champs in the Top-20 - Nick Davidson (13th, $9,399), Nick Pupillo (16th, $7,192), Rob Wazwaz (17th, $7,192) and Alex Ziskin (19th, $5,394) – along with Jim Kasputis (20, $5,394), Rich Alsup (22, $5,394), Ravi Raghavan (28, $4,495), Keith Heine (29, $4,495), Aaron Johnson (32, $4,495), Keven Stammen (40, $3,760), Jake Baumgartner (52, $3,187), Larry Ormson (54, $3,187), Gary Herstein (59, $2,942), Blake Whittington (60, $2,942) and Frank Stepuchin (61, $2,942) 

Here’s the overall final results for the May 2019 HPT East Chicago Main Event

	5.9-14.19	HPT East Chicago	Main Event
	570	Entries
	$820,800	Prize	Pool
	63	Places	Paid
	1st inc. $3500	HPT Champs	Package
PLACE	NAME		PAYOUT
1	Christopher	Moon	$187,399
2	Artem	Zverkhovskyy	$113,605
3	Eric	Salazar	$74,456
4	Craig	Casino	$51,735
5	Bryant	Miller	$37,596
6	Michael	O'Neill	$29,178
7	Paul	Elfelt	$24,519
8	Dennis	Ng	$20,433
9	Bret	Martin	$16,346
10	Lavonne	Schaafsma	$12,586
11	WIlliam	Wolfe	$12,586
12	William	Firebaugh	$12,586
13	Nicholas	Davidson	$9,399
14	Kalpesh	Shah	$9,399
15	Alan	Krockey	$9,399
16	Nicholas	Pupillo	$7,192
17	Rajaee	Wazwaz	$7,192
18	Mark	Morris	$7,192
19	Alexander	Ziskin	$5,394
20	James	Kasputis	$5,394
21	Daniel	Sepiol	$5,394
22	Richard	Alsup	$5,394
23	Dale	Hackney	$5,394
24	Daniel	Hummer	$5,394
25	Paul	Fisher	$5,394
26	Nadezhda	Magnus	$5,394
27	Yoon	Kim	$5,394
28	Ravik	Raghavan	$4,495
29	Keith	Heine	$4,495
30	Amanda	Heidbrick	$4,495
31	Jay	Goldenberg	$4,495
32	Aaron	Johnson	$4,495
33	Gabriel	Paul	$4,495
34	Alan	Cutler	$4,495
35	Nikola	Budzakoski	$4,495
36	Michael	Weber	$4,495
37	Michael	Shanahan	$3,760
38	Kevin	Maahs	$3,760
39	David	To	$3,760
40	Keven	Stammen	$3,760
41	Omer	Miller	$3,760
42	Steven	Clark	$3,760
43	Frenk	Cerminara	$3,760
44	Timothy	Gordon	$3,760
45	Kenneth	Rawlinson	$3,760
46	David	Short	$3,187
47	Todd	Ivens	$3,187
48	Griffin	Abel	$3,187
49	Brad	Sailor	$3,187
50	Joseph	Maxwell	$3,187
51	Barry	Schmiess	$3,187
52	Jacob	Baumgartner	$3,187
53	Billy	Welch	$3,187
54	Larry	Ormson	$3,187
55	Ian	Matakis	$2,942
56	Aaron	Braun	$2,942
57	James	Stern	$2,942
58	Bradley	Rhodes	$2,942
59	Gary	Herstein	$2,942
60	Blake	Whittington	$2,942
61	Frank	Stepuchin	$2,942
62	Brendan	Shiller	$2,942
63	John	Hughes	$2,942

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