Valentine's Day weekend brought out the love of poker by players on New Jersey-regulated poker rooms with all major tournaments exceeding their guarantees. This was not the case the weekend before, due to players choosing to watch Super Bowl 50 or attend parties instead of playing online.
The biggest online tournament winner in the Garden State over the weekend came in the partypoker NJ/BorgataPoker.com $50,000 Guarantee when "Robcards" banked $10,720 after defeating "RickRahim" in heads-up play. "RickRahim" collected $7,059 for his runner-up performance.
Notable players to navigate their way through the field of 268 entrants to pony up the $215 buy-in and reach the final table included Edwin "GiantGenius" Rowan (5th - $3,591), Steven "stevenmadara" Madara (8th - $1,983), and Ryan "shipthesherb" Hohner (9th - $1,447).