Hou makes comeback to win MSPT Golden Gates

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Tiger Woods completed a comeback for the ages this weekend at The Masters, shipping his first Green Jacket since 2005. Brian Hou might have managed a more improbable comeback than Tiger’s, as he spun up a stack of just two antes at the final table all the way to victory here at the MSPT Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour Main Event.

“It’s kinda surreal more than anything else . . . a lot of things had to go right. More so than usual!” Hou, an employee of the University of Michigan said about his improbable final table run. “I had one ante in and one 5k chip left. Then I hit a bunch of really lucky rivers when I was all-in, all of them five outs or less.”

This included binking a three-outer four on Ben Keeline to triple up to five big blinds, then after a few shoves, doubling through Alex Winter with his king-seven finding a king on the river to crack Winter’s eights. From there, Hou steamrolled through the remaining field to victory.

Hou kept it low-key when talking about what he was going to do now that he earned his first MSPT Main Event title, “I’m gonna try to go to sleep and try to catch a flight to Michigan.” Hou added, “Shout out to some of the guys I play with out in Ann Arbor, a good group of guys, I hope they tuned in.”