TravestyFund Rice Wins Aruba Poker Classic
Aruba is known for many things. It's a great vacation spot, a relaxing place to unwind and see some extraordinary beauty and a heck of a place to win some nice cash prizes in doing what you love most...playing poker.
With 548 players taking part in the Aruba Poker Classic on Saturday, it may have been hard to imagine who was going to take home the first place prize. But that $800,000 went to Travis, "TravestyFund" Rice when he beat out Jim Mordue, leaving him sitting in second place.
But second place wasn't all that bad for Mordue who was able to walk away with a nice chunk of change...$478,405 to be exact.
Many of the top and well known online players were in attendance at the Aruba Poker Classic as it is both the big money and the beauty of Aruba that draws people to the event.Some of the other popular online players that are due some honorable mentions are:
Matt "Plattsburgh" Vengrin........7th place......$47,840
Matt "Hazards21" Giannetti......12th place....$26,580
Jonathan "FieryJustice" Little....25th place....$15,945
Chirs "brsavage" Savage.........53rd place.....$7,975
Many of these players will more in likely be seen and heard from again as they are all great online players and each is proving to give a good fight for the cash.