Itoafa busted after running ace-queen smack dab into Karim Abuzar’s Big Slick. The first player to fall was Dapo Ajayi, who lost ace-queen to Jack Peterson’s pocket sevens, and he was followed out the door by 2018 MSPT Denver Poker Open champ Mike Itoafa, a dentist by trade. Other to cash the Main Event were WSOP bracelet winner Adrian Buckley (11th - $13,311), Craig Casino (18th - $7,606), Matt Livingston (28th - $4,754), Aaron Frei (31st - $4,754), Colossus II champ Ben Keeline (42nd - $3,976), Khoa Nguyen (52nd - $3,371), and Wally Printz (59th - $3,112). All told, Pupillo has won more than $2.3 million in his poker career. More recently, he won the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley Main Event in September of last year for $170,286, which he followed by finishing runner-up in the WSOPC Horseshoe Hammond Main less than a month later for $186,823. Pupillo’s first HPT win came back in 2015 when he took down the HPT East Chicago for $120,537. Shawn's a very good competitor and it was a good match. "I got lucky when I needed to and played well throughout," Pupillo said after the victory. He did so by defeating HPT legend Reginald “Shawn” Roberts in heads-up play. On Sunday, the $1,650 Heartland Poker Tour Black Hawk Main Event came to an end as poker pro Nick Pupillo topped a 588-entry field to win his second HPT title and a $194,478 first-place prize. Nick Pupillo (Photo courtesy of Hold'em Radio)
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