Maurice Hawkins received his seventeenth World Sequence of Poker Circuit gold ring in model, dragging the ultimate pot of the 2025 WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Pompano Seashore $400 40/40/40 Grand Grasp no-limit maintain’em occasion with a nine-high straight flush in hearts.
Hawkins now sits in second place on the all-time WSOPC rings leaderboard, trailing solely 18-time winner Ari Engel. This newest win put Hawkins one victory forward of Daniel Lowery (16 rings). Joshua Reichard (15 rings) and Valentin Vornicu (13 rings) spherical out the tour’s high 5.
This newest win got here in a novel occasion which featured 40,000 in beginning chips and 40-minute ranges all through, whereas requiring entrants to be at the least 40 years of age to play. Hawkins, who’s 45 years outdated, earned $16,137 because the champion.
Hawkins first took down a WSOPC ring again within the ultimate month of 2008. Since then, he has managed to win a number of rings in a single calendar 12 months 4 separate occasions (2009, 2016, 2017, 2019). 5 of his 17 rings have been secured in WSOPC major occasions.
All informed, Hawkins has cashed for simply shy of $6 million in his match profession, with roughly half of that complete coming from his 166 cashes in WSOPC occasions. His $2.9 million in circuit earnings stays the very best mark of any WSOPC participant, with Daniel Lowery’s $1.85 million being the next-largest complete.
Hawkins has now made 4 ultimate tables in 2025, with this being his first win of the 12 months. With 632 Card Participant Participant of the 12 months factors accrued thus far, he’s now sitting in 81st place within the 2025 POY standings introduced by International Poker.
Here’s a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
Place
Participant
Earnings
POY Factors
1
Maurice Hawkins
$16,137
144
2
Brian Stone
$10,448
120
3
Robert Aleksivich
$6,973
96
4
Theo Lawson
$4,803
72
5
Renato Paiva
$3,418
60
6
Jaroslaw Osinski
$2,516
48
7
Richard Head
$1,917
36
8
David Moses
$1,515
24
9
Patrick Biancone
$1,243
12
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