Mike Latour Wins Summer Slam’s $50,000 Guaranteed $200 No-Limit Hold’em for $21,246

A 31-year-old Syracuse, NY Alarm Company Account Executive, who played poker for a living online before Black Friday, took down the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam $200 No-Limit Hold’em Event #2 Sunday night.

Mike Latour, who came all the way up from the bottom of the leaderboard at the start of the final table to dominate short-handed play, earned the $21,246 first-place prize outright, after ultimately defeating a field of 562 entries.

The event drew big numbers over four starting flights Friday and Saturday, smashing the $50,000 guarantee to create a $92,378 prize pool. A total of 90 players survived the opening heats and quickly moved past the 55-player money bubble and onto the final table Sunday evening.

Local star Blake Napierala had …

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