$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 3: 75/150 with a 25 ante
Players: 300
The field is chock full of notable players, but we thought we’d single out three and tell you why they’re worth keeping an eye on.
Mike Shin – The 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event attracted 6,737 players, and right now nine of those player — known as the The November Nine — are on hiatus waiting to return to Las Vegas to battle it out for an $8 million first-place prize. Mike Shin will not be there.
Shin, who hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, nearly made it though, making a deep run but ultimately busting in 12th place for $427,930. The largest score of his career brought his lifetime earnings up to $571,260, but it was bittersweet.
“A little disappointed because obviously I was so close to it, but like I said before, if you’d have told me at the start of the tournament I’d get 12, I would have been stoked,” Shin said a week after his elimination . “I try not to think about it. I don’t think it’s going to go away though. I think about that hand though, every single day, every single hour. I’m thinking about it at this moment.”
His elimination may still be in the back of his mind, but right now he has a new focus as he is in action here in the SHRPO.
James Mackey – Less than two weeks ago, James “mig.com” Mackey topped a field of 1,066 entries to win the World Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event for $681,758, which vaulted him past $3.5 million in career earnings. Not only that, it gave him a WPT title to go along with his World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
Regarding that WSOP bracelet, it came back in 2007 when Mackey took down the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event for $730,740, the largest cash of his career. Other highlights on his poker résumé include third in the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown for $441,128, runner-up in the 2008 WSOP $10,000 8-Game World Championship for $297,792, and third in the 2012 WSOP Event #43: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $286,633.
We’ll have to wait and see if Mackey’s momentum from his recent WPT win can carry over to this SHRPO event.
Blake Bohn — One of the superstars to come out of the Midwest, Bohn of Eden Prairie, Minnesota is not only a two-time Mid-States Poker Tour champ, he is one of the tour’s Team Pros.
Bohn, who currently sits second on Minnesota’s all-time money list with nearly $2.4 million in tournament earnings, started making a name for himself in 2013, which is when he topped a field of 392 players to win the Chicago Poker Classic for a career-high $288,171. That summer, Bohn finished runner-up to Jonathan Taylor in the World Series of Poker Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $281,049.
Other poker highlights for Bohn include 23rd in the 2015 WSOP Main Event for $262,574, finishing seventh in the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event for $249,438, third in the 2014 World Poker Tour Borgata Open for $213,999, and 15th in the 2013 WSOP $111,111 One Drop High Roller for $208,968
Interestingly, Bohn was selected, alongside “Minneapolis” Jim Meehan, for induction into the Minnesota Poker Hall of Fame last December.