StakeKings’ Team Jones & Team Mitchell Battling in Arizona Poker Championship

The nineteenth annual Arizona State Poker Championship is underway at Speaking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, and two StakeKings groups are presently battling it out with a number of hundred gamers remaining.

Crew Jones and Crew Mitchell are matched in opposition to each other on StakeKings, with Crew Jones led by 2023 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Fundamental Occasion runner-up Steven Jones and Crew Mitchell headed by Arizona poker professional Brandon Mitchell.

Each groups nonetheless had three gamers left standing on Monday within the Arizona State Poker Championship, a $1,100 buy-in occasion that drew 3,546 complete entries — making it the largest-ever Arizona State Poker Championship — and can award $500,000 to the eventual winner.

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Which Crew Will Pull Forward?

Whereas Crew Jones captain Steven Jones is now not within the occasion, his teammates left standing embody Colton Blomberg, Greg Brown, and StakeKings CEO Tyler Hancock, who had a deep run of his personal within the WSOP Fundamental Occasion earlier this summer season.

Jones’ fellow teammates Jonah Labranche and 2023 GPI Mid-Main Participant of the 12 months Nick Pupillo.

In the meantime, Crew Mitchell captain Brandon Mitchell remains to be alive alongside teammates Ari Shin and Tom Steinbach, whereas his fellow teammates Greg Porter, Kai Cohen and Nate Paytas are now not within the occasion.

Jones, finest identified for his runner-up end to Daniel Weinman within the 2023 WSOP Fundamental Occasion, has had earlier success within the Arizona State Poker Championship. In 2024, he completed sixteenth for $18,782, besting a Twenty first-place end the earlier 12 months that earned him $13,140. The 12 months earlier than that, he completed twelfth for $14,536.

Mitchell, who has $967,225 in Hendon Mob earnings, completed nineteenth in final 12 months’s occasion for $16,220.

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Exterior Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 3 World Poker Awards for his writing.