The World Sequence of Poker Circuit all-time winner prolonged his document on-line this weekend in Pennsylvania. Ari Engel gained his record-extending 18th Circuit ring within the $888 occasion on WSOP On-line within the Keystone State.
He now sits in entrance of Maurice Hawkins, who practically tied Engel final month, however stalled in second in an occasion at Harrah’s Cherokee.
Engels is approaching $9 million in event winnings with about $1.1 million coming solely from WSOP Circuit occasions. He additionally owns three WSOP bracelets. He began piling up the Circuit rings beginning in 2007. The latest on-line win is one in all 5 he’s gained on-line in Pennsylvania, Michigan and the Nevada/New Jersey markets.
He additionally has 10 runner-ups in Circuit occasions. Engel, 40, was a part of a small subject of 61 who put up $888 to vie for the Circuit ring. Engel, who performs as “Ngindn,” was chargeable for two buy-ins himself and scored $16,732 for the win. The occasion solely had 33 gamers with 28 rebuys.
For the final a number of years, it’s been a two-player race for probably the most rings between Hawkins and Engel. Hawkins had the lead as lately as 2023 when he gained his fifteenth, however Engel retains successful. He lately tied with Hawkins with 15 rings by successful back-to-back Circuit occasions in North Carolina final August.
He took the lead by successful a $370 Omaha 8OB occasion in October on 2023, adopted by one other on-line ring every week later in a $500 occasion in Nevada.
Moreover placing within the quantity at each reside and on-line WSOP occasions, the Las Vegas resident may be discovered enjoying in lots of three-figured buy-in occasions in casinos all through the nation, grinding out cashes and binking them greater than most.
Moreover dominating on the WSOP Circuit, Engel additionally gained two World Poker Tour occasions on the Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown in April, in addition to a 3rd occasion there in August. All three of these wins got here in stud and mixed-game contests.
The WSOP Circuit is wrapping up a collection at Horseshoe Hammond, earlier than heading to Thunder Valley On line casino in California. After Thunder Valley, there’s 10 extra collection to go in casinos throughout the nation earlier than the 12 months is over.
Who desires to guess that Engel will get one other ring earlier than the 12 months’s out? Not me.