David Peters of Toledo, Ohio bested the field of more than three hundred players to take home the win at the Heartland Poker Tour No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event. The event took place in Mount Pleasant, Michigan at the Soaring Eagle Casino where several players had hopes of winning the top prize. However, no one would be able to outlast Peters, whose win was his largest to date.

This was the first time the HPT held an event at the Soaring Eagle Casino, but a founder of the HPT stated they “could not be happier with the turn out… and look forward to returning in 2009. The tour will now be moving on to Minnesota at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in September.

Final Table Results for No-Limit Texas Hold’em Event

1st David Peters $130,178
2nd Bill Vendt $65,089
3rd Issa Yacoub $39,053
4th Ryan Pham $30,375
5th Chad Rauschenberger $26,036
6th Bill Bostick $21,696

David Peters has competed in several events in his short career. Peters was a college student at Bowling Green University, when he decided to give up his studies and pursue a poker career. Peters has played online for quite some time but has only participated in around 20 live events. Peters has played in the HPT, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.

The twenty one year old has won around $500,000 in his short career and can now participate in more events since he just turned twenty one six months ago. Although he quit college, Peters has stated his parents are very supportive of him and Peters believes he made the right choice.



- 2008-08-28