Young pro Harrison Gimbel was able to outlast some 300 other entrants to win the largest tournament in Florida history. Gimbel succeeded in the World Poker Tour/Fall Poker Open Party Poker Download at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, worth an impressive $333,000 –the largest payout in Florida poker history.
Gimbel, who is no unfamiliar name to poker fans, won the PCA Championship in January where he booked a $2.2 million win at the tender age of 19, is a rising star in the poker world, and has amazingly Party Poker Deposit Bonus Code won two major tournaments before his 21st birthday.
Florida and the Caribbean, permits players to take part in casino games at the age of 18; unlike most locales in the United States that stipulate a player must be 21 to enter a casino. Unluckily for Gimbel he will miss out on next year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas since he doesn’t turn 21 until October.
For his career Gimbel has won over $2.6 million in live tournaments, not bad for a 20 year-old!