Mo Nuwwarah, who served in the poker media from 2013 through 2021 and recently transitioned to covering the sports betting industry, is taking the poker felts by storm. The former poker reporter has raked in $583,062 in live earnings with three of his biggest scores in the last five months. He topped all of his previous scores last Sunday when he beat a field of 822 entries to win the $1,110 buy-in Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Bally’s Black Hawk Casino Main Event for a career-best score of $155,189.
This was his second title of the year, having shipped a $600 buy-in event at the Harrah’s Council Bluffs Holiday Poker Classic in the first week of 2024. The latest victory took his live earnings to a massive $583,062 and propelled him into the fifth place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.
Nuwwarah, one of the hosts of the football betting podcast Gridiron Gamble, has already cashed over $200,000 in POY earnings this year. Talking about his latest win to MSPT reporters, he said, “It feels great. I mean, I started playing these events when I started covering them for work and that was about 10 years ago so, I had a couple of close shaves but was finally able to close one out.”
Total Entries: 822
Prizepool: $795,840
Places Paid: 90
Nuwwarah came into the final table as the short stack and then cracked pocket aces with a rivered flush for his pocket kings to move up the counts. He won a big pot with pocket queens holding against the A-K of both Jeff Soffer (4th) and Antonio Vargas (3rd). He entered the heads-up with a 5:1 chip lead over Jeremy Wood and quickly finished off his opponent in second place. On the final hand, his 2d 2c held up against the Ad 8d of Wood, winning him the coveted title and a career best prize money $155,189.
MSPT Season 15 Bally’s Black Hawk Showdown Main Event Final Table Payouts:
| 1 | Mo Nuwwarah | $155,189 |
| 2 | Jeremy Wood | $95,497 |
| 3 | Antonio Vargas | $70,352 |
| 4 | Jeffrey Soffer | $52,525 |
| 5 | Jack Corrigan | $39,792 |
| 6 | Mansour Alipourfard | $30,242 |
| 7 | Sean Lee | $23,079 |
| 8 | Shant Marashlian | $18,304 |
| 9 | Michael Giardina | $14,325 |
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