![]() ![]() The most accomplished of them, Jared Griener and Frank Stepuchin, who respectively make up the one and two slots atop the Utah all-time money list with $2.5 million and $1.3 million in live earnings, are both playing in the currently underway World Poker Tour (WPT) $5,250 buy-in Gardens Poker Championship in Los Angeles County. ![]() In spite of the obvious roadblocks impeding anyone from Utah hoping to make a career out of poker, several players with Utah roots have managed to rack up seven figures in live tournament earnings. And like other poker players who were unfortunate enough to be condemned to the Beehive State, I know how grueling it can be to make a two-hour drive across the barren Bonneville Salt Flats just to play some cards. I know this because I became a poker journalist despite growing up in one of the most unlikely places to cultivate such a career: Utah. In fact, as one of the most conservative states in the country, one that outlaws both live and online poker, the closest place anyone in Utah's urban center can get a poker fix is Wendover, a border town straddling the Utah-Nevada state line that is currently home to two small poker rooms that may have a few low-stakes cash games running at any time. Jared Griener's Top 5 Cashes at The Gardens Casino. ![]()
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