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No you are not having a case of déjà vu, and this isn’t April 1, so it’s not a joke either. Actually I’m starting to think that the Heartland Poker Tour may be rigged. While this seems like a bold statement (and is in fact a joke) how else can you explain the run Greg Raymer has been on at HPT events in 2012. This week Raymer won his fourth HPT Main Event this year, a remarkable feat made all the more remarkable when you consider that Raymer has only played eight HPT tournaments!

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It isn’t like Raymer is playing in two-table tournaments, or besting a field of first-graders either; HPT Main Events boast a $1,500 buy-in, and attract at least a couple hundred players, many of whom are top-tier tournament pros. When I saw the results this morning I initially thought I was looking at old results from his third victory; it actually took me a few minutes to realize he had won another HPT Main Event!

The remarkable four-month run at HPT events began in Albuquerque, New Mexico when Raymer defeated a field of 131 players to win his first HPT title at the end of July; the run continued with a second victory, this time in Missouri, where Raymer weaved his way through a 336 player-strong field; the 2004 WSOP Champion than pulled-off the HPT trifecta by winning the HPT Main Event in Prairie Meadows where he took advantage of the rebuy format, using five bullets on Day 1 of the tournament.

Raymer’s recent victory came at the HPT Main Event in Florence, Indiana, besting a field of 283 players on his way to the title. Here is a glimpse at the final table payouts from the event:

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Greg Raymer – $106,030
Jacob Bazeley – $59,706
Bruce Ostrander – $38,088
Iverson “Cotton” Snuffer – $32,941
Jason Gwinn – $25,324
Kenny Hicks – $20,588

Before picking up win #4 on the HPT, Raymer was the only player in the tour’s history to win two events in the same season (he now has boosted that number to four), and he was also the only player to win three HPT Main Events, and now he has broken his own record with his fourth.

Here is a look at Raymer’s previous HPT victories:

HPT Albuquerque Main Event results

Greg Raymer – $71,875
Robert Crawford – $42,500
Scott Dougherty – $26,875
Benjie Benaviden – $21,550
Allan Hedin – $16,250
Steven Carruthers – $14,375
John Bechard – $11,875
Alberto Herrera – $10,625
Julian Melancon – $9,375

HPT Missouri II Main Event results

Greg Raymer – $121,973
Ryan Hickey – $69,034
Alona Sushynina – $43,908
Shawn Roberts – $37,810
Penelope Banhidy – $29,272
Stan Jablonski – $23,906
Dennis Phillips – $14,636
Marvin Glowczewski – $13,904
Brad Albrinck – $12,246

HPT Prairie Meadows Main event results

Greg Raymer — $72,089
Chad Lawson — $41,771
Craig Casino — $26,275
Ben Stroh — $22,233
Ed Sinnott — $16,978
Josh Birkenbeul — $14,526
James Swearngin — $10,780
Blake Cavanagh — $9,432
Raymond Behnke — $8,624

The Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) wrapped up its Season XIV $2,500 Championship on Tuesday at the Ameristar in East Chicago. The event, which drew 434 runners and created a $965,650 prize pool, concluded with an all-star table – one that included 2017 MSPT Wisconsin State Poker champ Richard Bai and World Series of Poker Circuit Potawatomi Main Event champ Ala Aqel – that not only saw the winner walk away with $221,294 but ultimately determined who got the title in a tight Player of the Year race.

In the end, it was Wisconsin poker pro Josh Reichard who eliminated his final four opponents to finish as the last player standing. With that, Reichard added an HPT title to his impressive poker résumé, which includes 10 World Series of Poker Circuit gold rings and a Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) title. Additionally, the win was the biggest of his career and vaulted him up to nearly $1.2 million in lifetime earnings.

Reichard, who was the first-ever guest on PokerNews’ LFG Podcast, defeated Pittsburgh’s Bobby Noel in heads-up play to close it out. In the final hand of the tournament, Noel flopped top pair of kings and got it in against Reichard, who had flopped a club flush with six-seven. Noel’s nine of clubs kicker kept him drawing live, but he failed to find another club. Noel took home $136,625 for his second-place finish.

Others to cash the Main Event were Yoon Kim (13th - $12,412), Ari Engel (16th - $9,333), Sammy De Silva (23rd - $7,697), Casey Carroll (35th - $6,254), and Cody Brinn (44th - $5,292).

HPT Ameristar East Chicago Official Final Table Results

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Josh Reichard	Janesville, WI	$221,293
2	Bobby Noel	Pittsburgh, PA	$136,625
3	Jim Kasputis	Rockford, IL	$90,923
4	Adam Greenberg	Long Grove, IL	$63,021
5	Richard Bai	Chicago, IL	$47,626
6	Aaron Johnson	Red Wing, MN	$37,043
7	Ala Aqel	Orland Park, IL	$30,789
8	Jimmy Gumila	Streamwood, IL	$25,497
9	George Pappas	Roselle, IL	$21,552
10	Emmett Hickey	Arlington, TX	$16,453

Aaron Johnson Secures POY

Entering the final stop of the season, Ossama Estafanous led the HPT Season XIV Player of the Year race, but his failure to cash opened the door for both Aaron Johnson and Jim Kasputis, who both made the final table.

Johnson, who was profiled earlier this year right here on PokerNews, just needed to finish eighth or better to take the lead. If Johnson finished fourth or better he’d lock up POY, but lingering in between was Jim Kasputis Jr., who had a shot at it if he were to win the tournament.

When Johnson busted in sixth place, Kasputis was drawing live. Unfortunately for him, he failed to close it out to give Johnson the title, which awarded a prize package that included $10,000 in HPT Main Event buy-ins and hotel accommodations.

In Season XIV, Johnson kicked things off by winning March’s HPT Belterra $1,100 Main Event for $86,189 and two months later took eighth in the HPT East Chicago for $22,377. Toss in a 41st-place finish in October’s HPT Daytona Beach for $2,189, and his deep run in the Championship Event was enough to get the job done.

Johnson joins an impressive list of pros to have won HPT POY titles in the past that includes Greg “Fossilman” Raymer, Ari Engel, Shawn Roberts, Aaron Massey and Allen 'Chainsaw' Kessler.

Poker fans may not have heard the last from Johnson in 2018. That’s because he currently holds a healthy lead in the MSPT Season 9 POY race with just two stops to go. Right now, he’s a favorite to win two mid-major poker tour POY titles in the same year.

Season XV of the HPT will kick off in January with a $1,650 Main Event at Ameristar East Chicago.

HPT Season XIV POY Final Standings

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