The Bally’s Black Hawk Colorado Poker Championship (CPC) $3,000 High Roller saw 39 entries to generate a total prize pool of $109,980 set to be paid out to the top four places. After 14 full hours of play, the tournament reached a 1 a.m. closing time with exactly four players remaining and a four-way ICM chop was conducted.
At that time, Eddy Konarske held over 56% of the chips in play (879,000), well clear of the rest of the field and good enough to earn him a top prize of $37,546. Next closest was Steve Wilkie (391,000), followed by Michael Giardina (206,000) and Thomas Fuller.