The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Sycuan $1,110 buy-in Main Event that wrapped up Sunday had an unlikely fourth-place finisher who took home a career-high $41,518 after navigating through the field of 613 runners. Corey Peeples, a California father, bartender and poker enthusiast, had only played $80 tournaments before he was staked in the MSPT event by poker vlogger Johnnie "Vibes" Moreno, who "felt inspired" to give Peeples a shot at chasing a big score.
"Tuesday I was eating Ramen & the bartender watches my vlog so we were chatting poker," Moreno wrote on Twitter.