Michael Estes got here to the ultimate desk of the $1,700 World Sequence of Poker Circuit Essential Occasion at Horseshoe Hammond as the one participant with a Circuit ring — and he saved it that approach as he walked out with $198,576 and his second piece of bijou carrying the WSOP identify.
“I don’t know the way it feels but – I’m nonetheless making an attempt to course of this,” Estes advised WSOP reporters moments after profitable. “It’s merely wonderful. I needed this actually unhealthy.”
He gained the occasion sporting a fortunate 26-year-old ball cap that appears as if it spent most of its life in fight. Estes mentioned he hopes it’s going to keep collectively and intact lengthy sufficient to be worn as he wins his third ring.
“I frightened each single second of the ultimate desk,” Estes added. “This hat is not less than 26-years-old, it was once pink and was once put collectively. I feel we solely have a pair extra years left and hopefully I’ll get one other ring earlier than it breaks.”
The Essential Occasion attracted 746 entrants who constructed a prize pool of $1,130,190. The ultimate 9 have been assured not less than $14,000. The highest six gamers returned for Day 3 to battle to the top.
“The ultimate desk was nice,” he mentioned. “That’s due to me – I’m so good,” Estes joked. “No, everyone right here was completely skilled and good. We understood that all of us every couldn’t win.”
Estes, who walks round with that tattered St. Louis Cardinals hat in his dwelling metropolis of Chicago, gained his different WSOP Circuit ring in a $400 No-Restrict Maintain’em Monster Stack occasion at Grand Victoria On line casino Chicago final November. With 44 WSOP cashes, he was essentially the most achieved participant of the ultimate 9.
This wasn’t Estes finest lifetime match money. He gained $293,032 for ending fifth within the $3,000 occasion on the World Poker Tour Championships final December. He’s approaching the $1 million mark in winnings and if his good 12 months continues, he’ll quickly soar above it.
Possibly it’s the hat.
Closing Desk Payouts
Michael Estes – $198,576
Grant Keller – $132,386
Kristopher Magruder – $91,159
Sargon Guliana – $63,981
Mark Cahill – $45,789
Max Sheridan – $33,426
Mykhailo Lendel – $24,901
Christopher Weber – $18,937
Jacob Fishbein – $14,709
The WSOP Circuit is operating throughout the county in Thunder Valley with the $1,700 Essential Occasion kicking off yesterday. After that, the Circuit heads to Harrah’s Pompano Seashore Oct. 10-21, earlier than hitting Caesars Southern Indiana October 17-28.
