NJ Free Poker Final Tournament Winner to Play in World Series of Poker Main Event

 

Rafael Krupa, the winner of the NJFP Season III Finals, will represent NJ Free Poker in the World Series of Poker Main Event at Caesars, Atlantic City. The WSOP event begins March 5th and Krupa, will take his sponsored seat, in the four-day Main Event on Thursday, March 13th.

In a recent meeting with NJFP owner, Lisa Terlizzi, Krupa, who is employed by the IRS, predicted that he would; “go far” and finish “in the money”. When asked for a statement, here’s what he had to say:
“I am very, very excited about the opportunity to be able to play in such a prestigious event. As part of my preparation, I play local events and try to see as many different types of opponents possible to keep my reading skills sharp. My strategy going into this event will be to study my opponents carefully and then systematically pick my spots to acquire as many chips early as possible. I plan on playing with a large chip stack early to pick on the weaker players so that I can battle the bigger stacks later on in the tournament. Even though this tournament is a very big event and very large field I will not let those factors intimidate or deter me from reaching my goal, taking first place.”

Should Rafael’s prophecy come to fruition, NJFP is prepared to arrange to bus-in any NJFP player interested in routing him on to the Final Table. Keep your eye on the NJFP website for details. You can also follow the action at Caesar’s, live, on the WSOP website: http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/updatelander.asp

Here are some results from other NJFP Players sponsorships:

Ren “Double-Down” Buonomo, winner of the NJFP Bar-Tab Satellite Tournament and 6th place winner, at the NJFP Season III Finals, finished “on the bubble” in three separate casino events. Buonomo fell just short of the money, but had a great time anyway. In one of his tournaments, Ren was KO’d in a bad-beat story classic; in heads-up play, Buonomo had K-10 in the pocket… Flop comes; 10-10-K and he can’t get away from this one. Unfortunately, his “all-in” was all-over when he his opponent flipped up his pocket Kings… Ouch! We may have to change his name to Ren “Bubble-Boy” Buonomo.

In other action, here’s the report from NJFP Season III, 10th Place winner, Adam Canvisser, who capitalized on his sponsorship, in two separate tournaments at Harrah’s:

“I placed 8th out of sixty in the first one, they paid at 6 unfortunately, but then I took 1st in the second one of 45 players and that paid $827.00” Congratulations, Adam… Not a bad return for a few hours of “work”!

We will keep you informed as to the outcome of other player sponsorships, as they become available. If you have played in an event, but have not reported the results, please email the details to forum@NJFreePoker.com

For those of you who have yet to play in your sponsored event, best of luck from everyone at NJFP, and anyone interested in sharpening your game can come in to any location ½ hour before start time, and our Dealers will assist you.

Upcoming NJFP Events:

The NJFP Season IV Final Tournament is scheduled to lockout in May, and the Tournament will begin in June. NJFP is planning to change the format and play the Finals over two consecutive weekends. Semi-Finals: Day One is the Wild Card game. Day Two is the Shootout. The survivors will advance to the Finals on the following weekend, which will be played over a two-day period. The Players in the Top-Ten in overall score will receive a “bye” for the Semi-finals and move directly to the Finals. In addition, the Top 250 Players will qualify for the Finals and any player with at least one win, not in the top 250, will qualify for the Shootout. Other qualifiers include the Five Players with the best attendance, not in the Top 250, and the Ten Players from the Season III NJFP Finals. Details will be posted on the website, soon.