Billy Cashwell is the latest champion on the World Series of Poker Circuit. The 42-year-old construction worker from Stedman, North Carolina defeated a field of 1,057 total entries to win the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee $1,700 no-limit hold’em main event. For the win, he earned $271,234 and his first WSOPC gold ring.

In addition to the money and the hardware, Cashwell also earned 960 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year, but it alone was enough to see him move into 341st place in the 2019 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.

Cashwell entered the third and final day of this event in fourth chip position with 20 players remaining. A number of big names hit the rail in the early going, including Dan Lowery (20th – $12,273), Asher Conniff (19th – $12,273) and all-time ring leader Maurice Hawkins (16th – $14,841).

When the unofficial final table of ten players was set, Cashwell had climbed into second place behind Thomas Alcorn. Cashwell got off to a quick start after the field had combined onto a single table, picking up pocket kings against pocket eights to knock out Dinh Ba in 10th place ($22,347).

With seven players remaining Forrest Raleigh got involved in a preflop coin flip against Alcorn, with his AClub SuitKSpade Suit going up against the QSpade SuitQClub Suit of Alcorn. Raleigh managed to spike an ace on the river to double into the chip lead. Alcorn remained one of the larger stacks at the table.

Raleigh increased his lead by eliminating WSOP bracelet winner Martin Kozlov in sixth place. Raleigh called Kozlov’s shove with a bottom pair and the nut flush draw. He rivered the flush to best Kozlov’s flopped pair of queens, sending the Australian poker pro home with $56,832.

Alcorn scored the next two knockouts, busting Brad Albrinck (5th – $73,467) and Dann Turner (4th – $95,847) to close the gap with Raleigh and Cashwell a bit heading into three-handed action. He was unable to maintain that momentum over the next hour, and was down to just 11 big blinds when his final hand was dealt. He got all-in with 6Spade Suit6Club Suit and was called by the Raliegh, whose KSpade SuitJHeart Suit made a full house by the turn to leave Alcorn drawing dead. He earned $126,188 for his third-place finish.

Raleigh took a lead into heads-up play against Cashwell, and was able to expand that advantage to more than 6-to-1 at one point. Cashwell doubled up and then fought his way back into contention. He surged into the lead after winning a massive pot with two pair over two pair. With 9Club Suit7Heart Suit2Heart Suit5Spade Suit showing on the board the two got all-in. Cashwell held 9Heart Suit7Diamond Suit for top two pair, while Raleigh had 9Diamond Suit5[[suit:club]. The river was the 8Club Suit, securing the double up and the lead for Cashwell.

In the final hand of the event, Raliegh shoved his last 16 big blinds with JSpade Suit7Diamond Suit and Cashwell called with 5Spade Suit5Club Suit. The board came down 9Club Suit8Diamond Suit6Spade Suit7Club SuitAClub Suit and Cashwell made a straight to lock up the pot and the title. Raleigh was awarded $167,637 as the runner-up.

Final Table Results

The 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series London £100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted a record field of 130 entries, building a total prize pool of £12,200,000 ($14,884,000 USD). After three days of nosebleed poker action, Wai Kin Yong emerged victorious with his second Triton main event title and the top prize of $3,161,868 USD, which he earned after striking a deal heads-up against Triton founder Paul Phua, who started the venture with Wai Kin’s father Richard Yong.

Yong now has live tournament earnings in excess of $6.5 million USD, with three total titles won on the Triton tour. In addition to the title and the money, he was also awarded 1,320 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was is third final-table finish of the year, and as a result, he now sits in 81st place in the 2019 POY race standings sponsored by Global Poker.

The final table of this event began with Phua sitting atop the leaderboard with nine players remaining. Wai Leong Chan was the first to be eliminated when his A-J lost a preflop race against the pocket sixes of Yong, who flopped a set and held from there. Chan earned $372,100 USD for his ninth-place showing.

The next major showdown was a three-way all-in involving Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, Stephen Chidwick and Michael Soyza. Cates was the shortest of the three. He got all-in with ASpade Suit3Diamond Suit, only to have Chidwick shove for more behind him with AClub Suit7Heart Suit. Michael Soyza had both his opponents covered and held the best hand with ADiamond SuitQDiamond Suit. He made the call and held after a stressful KHeart Suit5Heart Suit4Heart Suit6Spade Suit6Club Suit runout. Cates took home $500,200 USD as the eighth-place finisher, while Chidwick was awarded $663,680 USD for finishing seventh.

Chidwick has already made 12 final tables in 2019, with three titles won and $5,562,947 in year-to-date earnings. The 330 POY points he earned in this event helped him further his hold on the overall lead in the POY race. He now sits 407 points ahead of his nearest competitor, recent Triton Million runner-up Bryn Kenney.

Paul Phua earned his first knockout of the day when his pocket queens bested the pocket nines of Michael Chi Zhang in a preflop all-in showdown. Phua flopped queens full and turned quads to leave Zhang drawing dead. He took home $867,420 as the sixth-place finisher.

Yong secured the next two bustouts, eliminating Sam Greenwood in fifth place ($1,100,440 USD) and Michael Soyza in fourth ($1,366,400 USD) to take the chip lead into three-handed play.

2019 World Series of Poker $50,000 high roller bracelet winner Ben Heath got his last chips into the pot with KSpade SuitKDiamond Suit up against the ASpade SuitKClub Suit of Phua. Heath was in the lead, at least until the QSpade SuitJHeart Suit10Heart Suit flop gave Phua the straight in the flop. The 6Diamond Suit turn and JDiamond Suit river locked up the pot for Phua, while Heath was sent packing with $1,647,000 USD for his efforts.

At some point the two heads-up players stuck a deal that saw Phua secure $3,121,132 USD and Yong $3,161,868 USD. Phua began with the lead following his elimination of Heath, and was able to stretch his advantage to roughly 6-to-1 before Yong mounted a furious comeback which began with him picking off a bluff from Phua.

It didn’t Yong all that long to completely turn the tables. By the timethe final hand was dealt, Yong held roughly a 6-to-1 lead of his own. Phua moved all-in for just over ten big blinds with QClub Suit6Club Suit and Yong called holding KSpade SuitJClub Suit. Phua picked up a lot of outs on a 9Club Suit7Club Suit7Heart Suit flop. The 6Diamond Suit gave him the lead on the turn, but the JSpade Suit on the end secured the pot and the title for Yong.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

With $45 million in career cashes, Justin Bonomo is the all-time winningest live poker tournament player. But that distinction could be at stake at the historic Triton Million.

Bonomo, the 2018 $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop $10 million champion, busted at the hands of Igor Kurganov on Day Two at the Triton Million on Friday. He was eliminated in 17th place, short of the money bubble.

So, that means he cannot extend his career live tournament earnings lead. But there is an outside shot he could lose the top spot on Saturday.

Current All-Time Tournament Leaders

Justin Bonomo is presently the all-time live tournament earnings leader with just over $45 million in cashes. He’s followed by Daniel Negreanu ($41.85 million), and Erik Seidel ($35.72 million). Neither of those poker greats made the trip to London for the £1,050,000 buy-in tournament, which is a bit of a surprise considering they are almost always in attendance for the biggest events.

In fourth place is Bryn Kenney, one of the most consistent high rollers over the past few years. Bryn has $34.94 million in cashes and needs a third place or better finish to surpass Bonomo on the Hendon Mob money list standings.

Kenney isn’t the only one out of 16 players at the time of publishing still in the hunt to overtake Bonomo. Stephen Chidwick and Dan Smith also have a shot but both would need to win the tournament to do so.

Chidwick, who has $25.17 million in cashes, was third in chips when this article went to publish. Smith sat in sixth place and has $27.98 in career earnings.

First place in the Triton Million pays £19 million, which equates to approximately $23 million US dollars.

At the time of publishing, 16 of the 54 players remained in the Triton Millions. The top 11 will be paid and we should be down to the final table by the time Friday’s session concludes. On Saturday, one player will walk away with £19 million and it could be one of the players who can overtake Justin Bonomo as poker’s all-time winningest tournament player.

It’s just one more reason to watch this historic poker tournament. As if you even needed one.

Lior Orel led complying with Day Two at the WPT Gardens Poker Festival. And also as we approach the final table in the initial World Poker Tour event of the season, he’s still in the very same setting.

Eric Hicks, nevertheless, took a commanding chip introduce Day 4 on Wednesday complying with an excellent performance on Tuesday. However the grizzly patriotic American shed a bad beat with a set of queens against Orel’s transformed nut flush to breast in seventh location ($ 56,860).

The WPT Gardens Poker Festival, a $5,000 buy-in competition at Gardens Casino in Los Angeles, is the initial World Poker Tour event of the 2019-2020 season. A total of 373 bought in and after four days of play, we’re to the final six.

Each remaining gamer is guaranteed at the very least $73,600 when the final table starts at 2 pm PT on Thursday. However the genuine money– $368,475, to be precise– is the reward the victor will certainly take house.

Big Names Gone But Talent Remains

Maria Ho remains to run deep in big poker competitions. Yet she took a tumble simply short of the final table on Wednesday. The casino poker analyst was eliminated in 8th location ($ 44,525). But the last table still has some skill in its schedule.

Cable Garcia has nearly $2.7 million in lifetime event pays. He’s most understood for winning the inaugural WSOP Colossus in 2015, defeating a then-record 22,374 players for a $638,880. Like the various other 5 players at the WPT Gardens final table, he’s seeking his first Globe Poker Scenic tour title.

WPT Gardens Poker Festival Final Table Chip Counts

1. Lior Orel 3,245,000
2. Roger Teska 2,970,000
3. Laszlo Molnar 2,865,000
4. Lars Kamphues 2,540,000
5. Cord Garcia 1,880,000
6. Andrew Wisdom 1,435,000

Hicks encountered some terrible luck during Wednesday’s session. Not just did he shed to the previously mentioned suck-out with a set of queens against Orel. Previously in the day, he called an all-in bet with pocket aces pre-flop in a 1.7 million-chip pot versus Wisdom, that was holding Q-10. 4 spades abandoned the board, giving Wisdom a winning flush.

Poker is a terrible game often. It just goes to show that an end-of-day chip lead suggests little unless it’s the final day of the event. Points can go south promptly anytime, a severe lesson Hicks discovered on Wednesday, if he didn’t currently recognize.

Orel, on the other hand, trended upwards throughout much of the session. After finishing Day 2 with the chip lead, he lost his advantage to Hicks on Day 3. Yet simply two days later and also he’s back on top with a take a look at his very first World Poker Tour title.

The 55-year old Hossein Ensan won the Main Event of the 2019 WSOP late Tuesday night, earning $10,000,000 and poker’s most prestigious prize: the WSOP Main Event bracelet.

This is the best feeling in my life,” Ensan said after the event with a huge smile. “Unbelievable! I am so happy I’m here with the bracelet in hand. What can I say?

Ensan is the second German champion in WSOP history (the first was Pius Heinz, who won the 2011 Main Event). He is also the third Iranian born Main Event winner. after Monsour Matloubi (1990) and Hamid Dastmalchi (1992).

Ensan had a substantial chip lead when the last table started Sunday evening, as well as he almost went wire-to-wire. He ultimately relinquished the lead Tuesday evening, but redeemed it as well as ultimately took the last of his opponents’ chips to protect his location in texas hold’em’s history books.

Ensan had to challenge versus Italian pro Dario Sammartino heads up. When heads-up play began, Ensan had a minor chip lead. Sammartino quickly drew ahead, however Ensan clawed his back after concerning a hr. From then on, he never relinquished the lead. Heads-up play lasted 101 hands and also took a bit greater than 4 hours, as well as at concerning 1:23 a.m., Sammartino was gotten rid of in second place. He gains $6,000,000 for his runner-up finish.

“Dario is a friend of mine,” Ensan said later. “He’s a very good player. But short-handed you need cards. You need hands, and for sure luck. And luck and hands were on my side. Otherwise, I’d be runner up.”

In the critical hand, Ensan held pocket kings, and the gamers obtained done in on the turn when Sammartino had a flush draw as well as an inside-straight draw. The river was a blank. Ensan won the hand with his pocket kings and also officially ended up being the WSOP Centerpiece champion.

Tuesday evening was the end result of a wild WSOP Main Event – tales of the video game were on the brink of duplicating history, the building actually trembled, as well as the a near-historic field competed for an 8-figure cash advance.

This was the second-largest Main Event of all time, with 8,569 gamers. (The all-time record is 8,773 in 2006.) The huge area created a reward swimming pool worth $80,548,600, and also the ultimate victor would make $10,000,000.

Gamers recognized this would not be any kind of average Centerpiece as early as Day 1C. A quake in neighboring California was so powerful it could be felt in Las vega. The Rio shivered for a couple of moments, and play was stopped while gambling establishment personnel verified the tournament areas were safe. The moment was simply a hint of points to come.

Followers of the game were glued to ESPN and online updates as a few of the video games most acquainted faces endangered to make history once more. Johnny Chan – the last gamer to win the Centerpiece in back-to-back years and, many thanks to Rounders popularity, one of the world’s most popular gamers – was still active when the bubble burst and also looked positioned to make a deep run. At the time, he was 392nd in chips, out of 1,286 continuing to be gamers. As well as an extra current poker pillar, Chris Moneymaker, was in even better setting (222nd). Nevertheless, it was not to be for either of them, and also they were both eliminated the following day. Another recent Centerpiece champ, Qui Nguyen, outlived them both, but was gotten rid of the same day as Chan as well as Moneymaker.

2005 champ Joe Hachem really did not run virtually as deep, but his child Daniel outlived all the previous Centerpiece champions by finishing 79th for ($98,120).

As well as probably the greatest possible story focused on a different type of champ. Three-time Super Dish victor Richard Seymour was gotten rid of late on Day 5, finishing in 131st area ($59,295).

The third-place finisher was Alex Livingston, of Canada ($4,000,000). This is the 2nd time in WSOP history the final three Centerpiece finishers were all from outside the U.S. The first remained in 2014, when Martin Jacobson (Sweden) outlasted Felix Stephensen (Norway) and Jorryt van Hoof (Netherlands).

2019 WSOP Main Event Final Table Results

James Anderson won among the final bracelets of the 2019 World Series of Poker Friday evening at the Rio when he bested an enormous field of 6,248 gamers in the $1,111 Little One for One Drop.

It was the first WSOP bracelet for the Pittsburg native. He defeated Fernando Karam heads-up for the title, which deserved $690,686. Karam took home $426,543 for his runner-up finish. The score was the largest of his occupation and also provides him greater than $2.3 million in tournament earnings.

Anderson’s second-biggest score came at the WSOP Circuit Regional Championship in 2010. It was a $10,000 buy-in as well as he took it down for $525,449.

He played seriously for a couple of years after that, yet ultimately took five years off from the WSOP 2019 was the very first year he moneyed in a WSOP event because 2014. His go back to the Rio was a lucrative one. He paid seven times and topped it off with a bracelet success.

“I wanted to get away from the ga me for a little bit,” Anderson told WSOP reporters following the tournament. “I was grinding really hard and I wanted to take a little break from it. I feel good now. My mind is a lot fresher now. I have a different perspective and hopefully, it continues. It’s a good start.”

The final table was reached late Thursday night and the final five players bagged up chips and came back Friday at noon to play down to a winner. Bob Mather, Ying Fu, Mark Strodl and Nils Tolpingrud made the final table and busted before the final day.

Karam came into the final day as the chip leader with nearly double what Liran Betito had behind him second in chips.

Anderson scored a huge double up through Betito early in the day with A-4 all in on a flop of Q-5-3 against Betito’s Q-9. A deuce came on the turn to give Anderson the wheel, the double up and a temporary chip lead. Anderson lost the chip lead three-handed and went into the heads-up battle with Karam as a 3:1 chip dog.

Anderson quickly closed the gap and then moved into the lead for good when his pocket A-6 sucked out against Karam’s A-Q. He finished off Karam with K-5 all in preflop against Q-4.

Shalom Elharar was eliminated in fifth, Betito in fourth and Marco Guibert was out in third.

Final Table Results

While most of the attention at the Rio was centered around the World Series of Poker main event, Stephanie Dao was in the back corner of the Amazon room quietly winning her first career WSOPbracelet.

Dao bested a field of 193 entries in the $3,000 limit hold’em six-max. She defeated Alain Alinatheads-up to earn the title and the $132,189 first-place prize. It’s Dao’s second final table after a fourth-place finish in the ladies’ event netter her $52,007.

Dao, who resides in Canada, plays limit hold’em regularly at cardrooms in Ontario. Tournaments, however, are a new experience for her.

“For about five years, I didn’t play any tournaments at all,” Dao told WSOP reporters after her win. “I was giving up on it. Then I had a deep run at [an event in Canada]. It gave me the motivation to play more tournaments. I’m very happy with the outcome this year.”

Dao came into the final table as the chip leader and extended it early on. About two hours into the day, Oleg Chebotarev was eliminated in sixth by Alinat. Early in five-handed play, Dao had about half of the chips in play.

By the end of that same level, however, Ian O’Hara had taken over the chip lead. O’Hara knocked out Jan Suchanek in fifth and Alinat sent Chad Eveslage home in fourth.

Alinat, O’Hara and Dao all took turns with the chip lead during three-handed play. Dao got the best of O’Hara and eliminated the Florida pro in third, giving her a nearly 2:1 chip lead against Alinat. The Frenchman briefly overtook her for the lead, but ultimately fell when his K-Q couldn’t hold up against Dao’s K-9.

Official Final Table Results

The 2019 WSOP Main Event field has actually trimmed from 8,569 players to 354 and also while we do not understand who will certainly claim the $10 million reward on July 16, we do understand it will not be a previous champion. Qui Nguyen, the 2017 world champ, was the last previous champion still depending on Day 4 but was gotten rid of before the session ended.

While most of the big name pros are gone, there are still some acquainted faces returning for Day 5. That includes previous NFL celebrity protective end Richard Seymour, Mike Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, and also Todd Brunson. And we absolutely can’t ignore our own discussion forum member Jacki Burkhart who left the Rio on Tuesday with lots of chips.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Part II?

In 2005, Joe Hachem put on a show when he won the Main Event. He rapidly came to be a crowd favorite at the final table for his sophisticated demeanor as well as energetic rail that shouted, “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oy! Oy! Oy!” after every pot he won.

The Australian poker champ busted on Day Three except the money. But his child, Daniel, is still grinding, wishing to follow in his footsteps as a Main Event champion.

Daniel Hachem, whose appearance leaves no doubt he’s related to the 2005 world champion, bagged 2,450,000 chips. That’s good for 55th out of 354 remaining players.

Hachem isn’t the only child of a previous Main Event champion still standing, however. Todd Brunson, whose Poker Hall of Fame father Doyle, ended up Day 4 with 1,151,000, which is around the average. The elder Brunson won the Main Event in 1976 and 1977. The Brunson’s are the only parent-child combo in the Poker Hall of Fame.

Other Notable Day Five Chip Stacks

• Antonio Esfandiari (2,583,000)
• Dario Sammartino (2,352,000)
• Olivier Busquet (2,041,000)
• Jacki Burkhart (1,503,000)
• Alex Foxen (933,000)
• Mike Matusow (726,000)
• Jay Farber (436,000)
• Cary Katz (200,000)

Dean Morrone, an 888poker online qualifier, has the biggest stack (4,980,000).

Cary Katz pulled double duty on Tuesday. He went back and forth from the Main Event to the $50,000 High Roller which was also running in the Amazon room. The Poker Central founder also cashed in the high roller, finishing 12th for $112,357.

Brandon Adams, who recently won a bracelet in an online event, leads heading into the $50k final table.

Rough Day for Past Champions

Chris Moneymaker making the final table would have made for an exciting story. But the 2003 champion, who cashed in the Main Event for the first time in 16 years, was eliminated on Day Four in 687th place ($20,200).

Moneymaker’s demise left two past champions – Qui Nguyen and Johnny Chan. Chan was nursing a small stack for most of the day and the 1987 and 1988 winner busted in 560th place ($24,560).

It was up to Nguyen to carry the torch. And for quite some time it appeared he was destined for another deep run. But after getting his kings cracked by a set, he lost a big chunk of his stack. On his final hand, he moved all-in pre-flop with pocket fives but ran into a slightly better pair – sixes. The 2016 Main Event champion was eliminated in 455th place ($30,780).

So, when Day Five kicks off at noon PT on Wednesday, every remaining player will by vying for their first Main Event title.

The 2019 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in main event drew the second-largest field in its history, attracting 8,569 players. After three full days of tournament action, that field has already been narrowed down to just 1,286 players, all of whom are now in the money. The money bubble burst shortly before 1:00 a.m. local time when Ryan Pochedly called off the last of his stack with A-K on a 8Diamond Suit7Heart Suit3Spade SuitKDiamond Suit7Club Suit board, only to find out that his opponent Julian Pineda had made trips with his 7Spade Suit6Spade Suit.

Pochedly was awarded entry into the 2020 main event as a consolation prize from the WSOP, along with a signature board in the shape of a bracelet that featured the signatures of many of the games biggest stars.

With Pochedly’s elimination, the remaining 1,286 all locked up a minimum payday of $15,000, and are alive in this event with a shot at the championship bracelet and the top prize of $10,000,000.

Andrew Brokos ended day 3 second in chips

Heading into day 4, Preben Stokkan holds the chip lead with 2,184,000. Other top stacks include Andrew Brokos (1,906,000), Ryan Dodge (1,800,000), WSOP bracelet winner Galen Hall (1,658,000), Cassio Pisapia (1,646,000) and Chris Hunichen (1,618,000).

There are several more big names with healthy stacks following the end of day 3, including Jean-Robert Bellande (1,126,000), Joseph Cheong (1,068,000), Jack Salter (1,015,000), Matt Stout (1,011,000), Max Silver (978,000), November Niner Eoghan O’Dea (946,000), two-time bracelet winner Eric Baldwin (916,000), Tom Cannuli (780,000_ Adam Levy (751,000), three-time bracelet winner Antonio Esfandiari (740,000) and Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (727,000).

Three former winners of the main event are still alive with a chance of becoming repeat champions. 2013 WSOP main event winner Chris Moneymaker bagged up 681,000, 2016 champion Qui Nguyen ended with 669,000, and two-time main event champion Johnny Chan will come into day 4 with 498,000. Former champs to hit the rail on day 3 included Joe Hachem, Jim Bechtel, Scotty Nguyen and defending champion John Cynn.

Two-time WSOP main event ‘last woman standing’ Kelly Minkin spent much of her day at one of the three featured tables in the Amazon room. Minkin finished the day with 456,000, securing her third cash in this event in the last five years. She finished 29th in 2015 and 50th last year.

“I can’t say I’m surprised, because I expect myself to go deep every time I play the main event, but it’s a relief that we’re finally in the money,” said Minkin after play ended.

“I want to be the last person standing and win the main event, that would be incredible,” said Minkin when asked for her thoughts on being the last highest-finishing female player in this event multiple times. “But I do think there is something to say about being the last woman, given that I guess this year there were only 350 total women in the field. So, if how I finish and my success in this event can encourage other women to get into poker, that’s amazing.”

Among the 1,594 players that were eliminated on day 3 were plenty of notables like Igor Kurganov, Asi Mishe, Phil Hui, Loni Harwood, David Bach, Calvin Anderson, TJ Cloutier, and Nick Schulman, who was set-over-setted by Joseph Cheong to lose a huge chunk of his stack late in the day.

The final 1,286 players will return for day 4 at noon on Tuesday, July 9. Play was halted following the bursting of the bubble with 6 minutes and 26 seconds remaining at 3,000 – 6,000 blinds and a big blind ante of 6,000 for level 15.