The battle for essentially the most World Sequence of Poker Circuit rings amped up a bit this week after Dan Lowery scored his sixteenth ring, bringing him right into a tie with Maurice Hawkins at 16. Each are only one ring behind Ari Engel, who stands at 17.
Lowery took the title within the $250 seniors occasion on the Choctaw On line casino in Oklahoma, topping a discipline of 500 to assert the championship ring and $18,682. He got here into the ultimate desk as chip chief after which vanquished Brian Inexperienced in heads-up play. Including that further piece of {hardware} constructed on a operating battle with Engel.
“The ring race heated up a couple of 12 months and a half in the past,” Lowery instructed Poker.org reporters after the win. “Me and Ari have been speaking a bit of playful, and it type of received uncontrolled as a result of he simply began profitable all the things. However we’re gonna attempt to catch him.”
A Look At The Ring Race
Whereas he could also be one ring behind, Hawkins retains the lead in WSOPC earnings at virtually $3.8 million. Lowery has earned $2 million and Engel has virtually $3 million. Regardless of his success, Hawkins just lately expressed his disinterest within the competitors.
“I believe that they’ve watered it down to some extent the place they’re nugatory,” he mentioned in a video on-line. “You’ve got individuals profitable rings the place first place is like $4,000, $5,000, $6,000. With this entire on-line factor, you possibly can play a $200 match with 60-70 individuals in it and win a hoop – it’s simply diluted, and it’s making it worse, it doesn’t even imply something anymore. It used to imply one thing, now it means nothing.”
As a part-time poker participant, Lowery’s success could stand out much more. Because the proprietor and operator of a sawmill in Booneville, Arkansas, since 1996, a lot of his time is dedicated to operating his enterprise.
“Logging and sawmilling is in my blood,” he instructed Skillset journal in 2021. “I get pleasure from it, or I positively wouldn’t do it. It’s not for the faint of coronary heart or a lazy particular person.”
That work ethic apparently carries over to the poker desk as nicely. However Lowery wasn’t the one participant within the ring race to attain a win just lately. Whereas enjoying in a reside occasion on the PokerStars North American Poker Tour occasion at Resorts World Las Vegas on Thursday, Engel was concurrently enjoying on-line and grabbed his fourth WSOP bracelet in a $400 turbo occasion.
Congrats @AriEngelPoker!!! https://t.co/OCy7q7D01k
— Daniel Lowery (@danmflowery) November 8, 2024
He’s gone and achieved it AGAIN!
It’s WSOP</a> ring quantity 16‼️ for Dan <a href=”https://twitter.com/danmflowery?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>danmflowery Lowery at Choctaw
The way it went down: https://t.co/oY8FGDsSxa pic.twitter.com/Q43OrsXbEb
— Poker Org (@pokerorg) November 5, 2024
