Completed
League Main Event
Format: Texas Hold'em 6-Max (?)6–handed (maximum) tables, No-Limit Texas Hold'em
Event Information
Structure: 6-Max, 50,000 starting chips, 90-minute levels starting at 100-200. Play ends after 6 levels on Day 1 and Day 2, and after Day 3 when 6 players remain. Registration allowed until after Level 5. Registration open only to Epic Poker League members and 9 Pro/Am Qualifier Main Event seat winners.
Buy-In: $20,000
Added Money: $400,000
League Main Event
| Winner | Payout | Event Recap |
|---|---|---|
 David 'Chino' Rheem
|
$1,000,000.00 |
David "Chino" Rheem outlasted a field in the Inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event which included some of the best players in the world. The final table featured a collective 16 World Series of Poker bracelets, 3 World Poker Tour titles, and over $40,000,000 in career tournament earnings. Rheem used an aggressive style to stay ahead of his opponents for most of the final table and defeated Erik Seidel to collect the $1,000,000 first place prize and the Champion's Ring. |
Charity Event
| Winner | Payout | Event Recap |
|---|---|---|
 Andy Frankenberger
|
$2,500 Cash donated by Zappos (Plus $1,500 Pro/Am seat) |
On Sunday night, Andy Frankenberger won Epic Poker’s Charity Poker Event, with 100% of the $53,800 raised going to Operation USA, to benefit the victims of the tornadoes that devastated Joplin, Missouri. This amount includes all the $200 buy-ins and rebuys, a total swelled by host Brad Garrett’s hilarious hectoring of players to rebuy. It also includes $2,000 of the $2,500 cash Zappos.com donated as first prize. (Frankenberger donated $2,000 to Operation USA and gave the remainder to the dealers.) Read the full tournament recap here. |
Pro/Am Event
| Winner | Payout | Event Recap |
|---|---|---|
 Stephen O'Dwyer
|
$43,810 (plus $20,000 Main Event seat) |
Steve O’Dwyer, a 29-year old professional poker player from Doylestown, Pennsylvania now living in Las Vegas, won the first Epic Poker Pro/Am at the Palms Casino Resort today, triumphing at a televised final table presented for national television by Heartland Poker Tour. Out of 190 starters on Friday and Saturday, the final 6 players (in addition to the 9th, 8th, and 7th place finishers on Sunday night) already won $20,000 seats into Epic’s Main Event Tuesday. At the final table, the 6 remaining players played for cash and the honor of winning the inaugural Epic Poker Pro/Am. Read the entire Final Table recap here. |
