WSOP Circuit event Saint Louis

So here we are with the biggest poker event in Saint Louis History and I'm not playing. The first weekend it was here, was Easter and the next weekend was my son's birthday, so we were booked on the weekends. Normally, I could take off work, but I just got promoted to a newly created position, so I've been swamped trying to set up everything at work.

Bleh.

Now to the real story: My poker club sent someone (Jordan Portel) to the main event ($5190 buy in) and he made the final table. I know of 4 people from our poker club that played in events. Of the 12 events, we have had people at 3 of the final tables (Tom Grasso, Bill Emerson and Jordan). Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

You may remember that last year, one of the guys from my poker club (Mike Eise) won event #28. I got a check for $12,000 from that. Now, if Jordan Portel can win this event today, I will get just shy of $3,000.

Gooooooooooooooooo JORDAN! Check this website for updates. Here are the chip counts going in:

FINAL TABLE
Seat Name City State Chip Count
1 Matt Schwarmann Orlando FL 409,000
2 Joel Casper Chicago IL 193,500
3 Gregory Headrick St. Louis MO 111,000
4 Gary Bolden St. Louis MO 66,500
5 Jeff Roper St. Louis MO 592,200
6 Jordan Portell St. Louis MO 116,000
7 Gary Lambert Quincy IL 188,500
8 Michael Softino Omaha NE 70,000
9 Jason Mo St. Louis MO 184,000

And here are the payouts:
Place Prize
1 $180,814
2 $122,502
3 $81,710
4 $58,373
5 $46,673
6 $35,036
7 $23,337
8 $18,957
9 $16,017

If your looking for me after 1pm today, I'll be at Harrah's Saint Louis on the Rail!

Go Jordan.