WSOP Review: Amateur Professor Slays Dragon to win MONSTER Stack

Mitchell Towner creates a fairytale script after defeating David ‘The Dragon’ Pham en route to the most incredulous journey in the MONSTER Stack event.

At 29-years of age, Mitchell Towner is young for a college professor. I imagine some of his peers at the University of Arizona, where he teaches finance, think he is a little wet behind the ears.

It’s not easy being the youngest; the runt; the untried and untested. You continually have to prove yourself; taking out your machete and hacking through great thick vines laden with judgment from a time no longer in touch with reality.

I am sure Towner still bears scars on his arms from that ferocious fight.