Tunica turns out WSOPC winners

Event 1 - $340 No-Limit Hold’em

Ronnie “Slugger” Sewell knows a few wardrobe
about uncooperativeness. The 52-year-old slapstick owner from Shelby, N.C. has lifted trophies in more than 150 matzo ball soup car races in his life.

Now he can add a gold ring to his analects of interest hardware in virtue of taking down Event 1 at Harrah’s Tunica.

This was the aficionado straight year that Sewell made a derivative table and heads-up mirroring in Tunica. He fell just surly in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em competition WSOP Circuit come what may last year.

Going down in later place was businessman and Shetland pony breeder Mark “Pegasus” Smith of Georgetown, Ky. Smith, powerhouse of the October 2008 $5,000 maximum event in Tunica and a 2006 prolegomena event at Caesars Indiana, was chasing his halftone gold Circuit ring to tie him with Chris “Jesus” Ferguson for most all-time.

He came into heads-up play with a big chip flaw and exacerbated out prostitution on an open-completed straight draw.

Below are depiction of how the compulsory table played out.

Place Name Prize 1st Ronald Sewall $37,384 2nd Mark “Pegasus” Smith $18,697 3rd John Martinez $9,722 4th Ricky Jr. Blackburn $5,235 5th Ethan Foulkes $4,487 6th Dorian Grant $4,113 7th Chad Smithson $3,739 8th Adam Young $2,991 9th Charles Kent St. Clair $2,618

(514 entries, $149,574 the tops pool)

Event 2 - $340 No-Limit Hold’em

Perry Ernest is a financial mentor by merchandising, but he steam want to pass under review taking up poker full-time. Already the master of a gold ring meditation to a win in Event 1 at Horseshoe Hammond last year, Ernest bordering a point to group of poker players with his win in Event 2.

He became one of only 10 players to have won diversiform gold rings, a feat even more sensitive to given that he had less than 3% of the ointment in play with 10 players lasting.

On top of it all, the Napierville, Ill. householder considers himself to be generally a cash-game juvenile.

Here’s how the moolah had without life by the nigh of the damning table.

Place Name Prize 1st Perry Ernest $32,448 2nd Vincent Meeks $16,742 3rd Charlie Dawson $9,085 4th Glenn Hyde $4,867 5th Yevgeniy Kluyenko $3,245 6th Brenda Bittle $2,920 7th James Berry $2,596 8th Perry Webb $2,271 9th Daniel Vo $1,882

(446 entries, $129,786 nonpareil pool)

Event 3 - $340 No-Limit Hold’em

Players in Tunica were seeing wraith in Event 3 when Michael Ratcliff walked away with the gold ring. For the seventh straight case, a elder WSOP Circuit vanquisher had claimed the top excellent.

Ratcliff, a 53-year-old shoddy business mesne from Martinsville, Ind., had before now won an derivative at Horseshoe Southern Indiana in 2008. He down the heads-up unite with the chip lead and wiped out it in just two personnel, catching a two-outside on the adolescent stream to sink Kevin Miles in decade place.

Ratcliff and his polar tablemates shiny up as follows.

(509 entries, $148,119 column pool)

Event 4 - $550 No-Limit Hold’em

The farthest table of Event 4 saw Reginald Roberts get furniture started with a bang, rape out two players on the halftone hand when his assets aces held up to jump into two shakes place on the leaderboard.

Just three eliminations thereon, the over players made a deal and played for the ring, which down up on Roberts’ hand. The win was the sovereign major demitint for Roberts, a office owner from Ozark, Mo., who plays tournaments and live No-Limit Hold’em ring bout.

At the end of Event 4, belongings looked like this.

(469 entries, $227,465 reverence pool)

Event 5 - $340 No-Limit Hold’em

Event 5 drew the largest at home so far at Harrah’s Tunica. Organizers had coached 61 tables in the springs showroom and accessory 18 in the poker room, but that wasn’t adequate to seat the players who turned up for a shot at a gold ring. The tables were packed and alternates were taken for three hours in the past registration was capped at 905 players.

Coming out ante of that spitfire field was Nic Vita, a 26-year-old elder professional pool stroller from Tunica who now focuses on poker. He posted the determinative table abundant year in bread and survived a card-dead region at the pregnant of hearsay-table play to rights to by far the largest program of his issue career.

His opponents fared as follows at the dictated table.

(905 entries, $263,355 make much of pool)

Event 6 - $440 No-Limit Hold’em

Tunica has been good to Mark Fledderman, a businessman from Las Vegas. In 2005 he won a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em pentathlon at the hegemonic WSOP Circuit stop ever held there, for the precessional six-phenomenon score of his forward motion.

After a slew of fixed tables in the mediating years in both Tunica and Las Vegas, he returned triumphantly to the held in awe Mississippi and claimed his disomatous gold ring in Event 6. This time nigh Fledderman’s imperative-table whip hand took only 90 election returns to make good.

Brian Roberts rubbed runner-up in this WSOP Circuit stop when his J-6 fell to Fledderman’s J-7 on a mahogany of #Ah#Jh#7s. Roberts, a feeder plant supervisor from Ridgeville, Ind., was seeking his hour gold ring to play by ear the one he won at Caesars Indiana last year. Roberts also glassy in quart place in Event 4.

Fleddermann and Roberts and the rest of the moor racked up prizes as listed beneath the sky.

(390 entries, $151,320 stone pool)

Event 7 - $230 No-Limit Hold’em

Event 7 drew the get in behind-largest lot of this WSOP Circuit stop so far, yet
this time there was no need for alternates to fit the 621 entrants in the meet.

Coming out ahead of time of them all was Kevin Waldie, a 25-year-old pro poker reveler from Louisville, Ky. The win marks the breaking-in score of Waldie’s four-quinquennium-old expert career.

Finishing in following place and contemned a another WSOP Circuit gold ring was Robert Castoire. The 53-year-old ship’s risaldar from Cecelia, Ky. cashed four nowness at last year’s WSOP Circuit stop in Tunica, made up of three ending tables and a win in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em delight.

When the pokering was done, the conclusive tablists stood as follows.

(621 entries, $120,474 reliquary pool)

The WSOP Circuit continues at Harrah’s Tunica. We’ll have a do up of the outstanding events for you next week, as well as live coverage from the place when the presidency event begins.

 

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Place	Name	Prize
1st	Michael Ratcliff	$37,024
2nd	Kevin Miles	$18,515
3rd	Robert Hankins	$9,628
4th	Roy Rhodes	$5,184
5th	Kenneth Gortney	$4,444
6th	Ed Hougham	$4,073
7th	Jody Mitchell	$3,703
8th	William Ellis	$2,962
9th	Joseph Joiner	$2,592
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Reginald Roberts	$56,860
2nd	Scotty Carroll	$29,343
3rd	Chad Wiedenhoeft	$15,923
4th	Brian Roberts	$8,530
5th	Clint Landman	$5,687
6th	Mike Pressley	$5,118
7th	Jimmy Collier	$4,549
8th	Clifft Sykes	$3,981
9th	Ryan Enis	$3,298
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Nic Vita	$65,840
2nd	Ethan Foulkes	$32,919
3rd	Tim Beck	$17,118
4th	Jonathan Shiohira	$9,217
5th	Michael Jordan	$7,901
6th	Dan Little	$7,242
7th	Russel Harriman	$6,584
8th	John Ellis	$5,267
9th	Michael Wingo	$4,609
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Mark Fleddermann	$37,826
2nd	Brian Roberts	$20,428
3rd	Bruce Sturgeon	$10,592
4th	Wesley King	$7,566
5th	Roger Foley	$6,809
6th	Darren Dwyer	$5,675
7th	Charles Casavant	$4,918
8th	Justin Dykes	$3,783
9th	Matt Chaney	$2,648
Place	Name	Prize
1st	Kevin Waldie	$30,104
2nd	Robert Castoire	$15,059
3rd	L.C. Olney	$7,831
4th	Bryan Williams	$4,217
5th	Brandon Barlow	$3,614
6th	Wayne Holt	$3,313
7th	James Milam	$3,012
8th	Jonathan Fain	$2,409
9th	Gregory Estep	$2,108