With the 2024 Main Event Championship in the books, Season 2 at the Pinnacle Poker Club has officially come to an end. This year, we saw our first winner of three PPC tournaments (Christina), our first two-time season award winner (Crystal), our first repeat Main Event Champion (Altaf), and our longest heads-up battle ever at the PPC (45 minutes between Team Crystal/Matt and Team Kara/Chris in Event #2).
The season was filled with other standout moments too:
- Lauren dominating the final table of our first event, single-handedly knocking out the last 5 players (and cruising all the way to an 8th place POY finish despite missing the remaining 5 games)
- Kara picking up her first PPC win in our inaugural tag-team event
- Matt busting every player he faced in our Shootout Championship in April
- Christina’s domination of the second half of the season, winning three straight events
- A thrilling $150 three-way pot in the very last hand of the regular season to determine our Player of the Year.
We awarded more than $2,500 in total prize money (almost 25% more than last year), with an average field of 13 players, an average prize pool of $400, and an average top prize of $228.
Twenty-five players joined us for at least one event this year, and 15 walked away with prize money at least once. Two-thirds of our players participated in at least half of our events, and our group is still growing with several new players looking to make their first appearance in 2025.
We thank all of you who helped to make 2024 so much fun here at the PPC, and we are looking to build on that fun as we plan for 2025. Please click HERE to answer five quick questions to help us make the PPC better than ever. We want to do everything we can to make our games the most fun for most of our players.
We look forward to seeing you all at the tables in January! Until then, leave a comment below with your favorite memory from the season, stay tuned for news about the 2025 season, and have yourselves a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (and feel free to check out our website for resources to improve your game before we meet again).
See you soon!
Lauren, early in Event #1 
Crystal happy to be back at the tables in Event #1 
Lauren, winner of Event #1 
Sharon laments her luck in the PPC’s first-ever tag-team event 
Daniela, enjoying her early domination in Event #2 
More excitement from Daniela early in Event #2 
Team Steve/Sharon finally drags in a big pot in Event #2 
Kara celebrates a big pot in Event #2 
Matt, during an epic 45-minute heads-up battle to close out Event #2 
A hard-fought spousal rivalry early in Event #3 
Matt can’t believe his luck at the final table of Event #3 
Fun times early in Event #4 
Jake, Kara, and Christina run deep in Event #4 
Christina picks up her first PPC win in Event #4 
Fun times at Event #5: The Dance of Dragons 
More excitement during our all-bounty championship 
Kasra, a POY finalist in 2023, finally makes his 2024 debut in Event #5 
Team Moayedi didn’t have luck on their side in Event #5 
Shealyn enjoys watching Thuy and Quang battle in an early spousal rivalry during Event #6 
Shealyn can’t believe that she correctly guessed that Chris was bluffing, but she still had the worse hand 
Pre-game snacking before the Main Event 
Shealyn, forced to go all-in with 7-2 in the Main Event 
Kara, enjoying some good luck early in the Main Event 
James gets unlucky in the 2nd hand of the Main Event final table 
Jon busts out on the third hand of the Main Event final table 
Thuy with a huge stack of chips late in the final table of the Main Event 
Kara in good spirits despite being all-in for her tournament life in the Main Event 
Altaf, our back-to-back Main Event Champion
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