Lucas Tae Wins RGPS Seminole Coconut Creek Event #2: $130 Opening Night
While our live updates this weekend are focused on the $600 Main Event, this tournament is actually the culmination of a week's worth of tournaments.
Earlier this week, Event #2: $130 Opening Night Ring Event more than doubled its $10,000 guarantee as 211 runners generated a $20,678 prize pool. The top 27 finishers got paid including Nick Visconti (10th - $434), Wade Hinds (14th - $372), Barry Chazen (16th - $310), Jason Casten (19th - $248), Maxton Goncalves (23rd - $191), and Mark Brannick (26th - $154).
The title came down to Lucas Tae and Kimani McKoy, and the two battled in a lengthy heads-up affair. Ultimately it was Tae, a WSOP Circuit ring winner, who prevailed to claim a $5,028 first-place prize. The win came a month after he finished runner-up in the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event #7: $200 NLH Big Stack for a career-high $37,055.
For more on Event #2, check out the Seminole Coconut Creek blog here.
RGPS Seminole Coconut Creek Event #2 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucas Tae | $5,028 |
| 2 | Kimani McKoy | $3,487 |
| 3 | Justin King | $2,119 |
| 4 | Trung Tran | $1,289 |
| 5 | Khaled Ali | $996 |
| 6 | Rafael Lima | $825 |
| 7 | David Shifrel | $703 |
| 8 | Pedro Palacio | $602 |
| 9 | Joseph Eder Johnson Jr | $502 |