Archive for category: Event 1: Winners Shown $450

Your first ever Poker Is Fun Tour Champion, Peixin Liu!

Piexin Liu bested a field of 82 tough players who gathered at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN, to play PIFT’s $450 “Winners Shown” event. Action started off fast and furious as players mixed in lots of bluffs and played hard nosed poker. We saw Waz Waz jump out to a huge stack early on, which propelled him to a 6th place finish for $1,574. Many other notables helped create a star stacked final table including WSOP bracelet winner John Reading, MSPT champ Mike Wilmes, 2025 MPC Main Event champ Joe Barnard, and several other big names in the Minnesota cash game scene such as Mark “Dmark” Dunbar and “Jayrockets” Melancon.

But the final table belonged to Peixin Liu — he started as one of the big stacks and never let go of that grip.

Here are the official results of our $450 “Winners Shown”:

1st-Peixin Liu ($8,501)
2nd-Tyler Caspers ($5,668)
3rd-John Reading ($4,251)
4th-Mike Wilmes ($2,834)
5th-Frank Szewc ($2,204)
6th-Rob Waz Waz ($1,574)
7th-Jay Melancon ($1,260)
8th-Mark Anderson ($945)
9th-Mark Dunbar ($787)
10th-Joe Barnard ($787)
11th-Reg Powell ($787)
12th-Mike Schmidt ($630)
13h-William Jordan ($630)
14th-Mark Hodge ($630)

Join us tomorrow, March 10th, for the $180+$5 “Winners Shown” event that starts at 1pm! Late registration closes at approximately 4pm. View event details by clicking here.

Peixin Liu: 717,500
Tyler Caspers: 102,500

After the break, players return to 2500/5000 and a 500 ante.

Szewc open raised, Peixin Liu moved all in and Szewc called after a 10 second delay for nearly 190,000 total. Liu’s A♥ Q♥ was in a classic race against Szewc’s 7♥ 7♣. An ace on the flop sealed Frank’s fate, as he gets to take home $2,204 for his efforts.

Peixin Liu: 540,000

John Reading opened to 8000 on the button, and Tyler Caspers defended his big blind. The flop of 9♣ 6♣ 7♥ saw a Caspers check, a Reading bet of 12,500, and a Caspers call. The turn A♣ turn produced a check from both players. Caspers fired out a 22,000 bet on the river, which got called by Reading. Casper’s A♥ 7♥ for aces up took down the pot.

Tyler Caspers: 110,000
John Reading: 75,000

John Reading open raised under the gun, Szewc called next in, Peixin Liu called in the cut off, and Waz Waz stuck his remaining ~100,000 all in. Szewc was the lone caller, and was in real good shape with K♦ Kc] against Waz Waz’s J♠ T♠. A Q♣ 2♣ J♥ flop gave Waz Waz some hope, but the 2♠ and 3♥ rolled off the rest of the way to take Waz Waz out of this inaugural event in 6th place.

And just like that, Szewc has went from one of the smaller stacks at the table to one of the larger, sitting with over 220,000.

5 are now left, with 5th getting $2,204. Our average chip stack is 164,000 — just about 55 big blinds!