Christina Gollins is a two-time World Sequence of Poker champion after profitable the $600 Housewarming at Commerce On line casino, good for $105,444. The opening occasion introduced in 1,483 entries who constructed a prize pool of $763,745.
Often called “Child Shark” on the event path, Gollins is now over the $700,000 mark in lifetime event cashes. This was her largest money by $22,000. Her top-10 cashes all got here since 2021, and consists of her first Circuit ring from a $400 occasion at Bell Gardens (additionally in L.A. and value $25,000), and a third-place end within the $1,000 WSOP Girls Championship, which is the closest she got here to profitable a bracelet ($72,604).
She was the one participant of the ultimate 9 who already owned WSOP {hardware}.
Huge fold stored her alive
With Gollins, John Solis and Weiqiang Zhao left, Gollins was compelled to decide with a robust beginning hand that modified the result of the occasion.
Gollins opened to $700K with AdKh. Solis didn’t suppose too lengthy earlier than three-betting to 1.7 million with two black kings. Each gamers had been instantly confronted with an all-in for 17 million by Weiqiang, who held QsQd.
It didn’t take Gollins lengthy in any respect to declare “That is gonna be the very best fold of my (f-in) life” whereas she mucked. After which she watched as Solis and his kings had been bounced by a queen on the flop.
Watch the entire match on YouTube, however that hand begins at 7:03:25.
Final WSOP Circuit sequence earlier than Vegas
The 18-event sequence at The Commerce formally closes the 2023/24 WSOP Circuit Sequence. It finishes simply after WSOP’s cease at Caesars Southern Indiana and its 17 occasions ends. That sequence runs till Might 20, whereas the sequence in L.A. finishes its ring occasions Might 21.
That would be the final probability for gamers to get into the $1 Million Match of Champions freeroll, a three-day occasion that begins Might 22 at Commerce. It’s open to all of final 12 months’s bracelet and ring winners throughout all of the WSOP’s codecs, together with on-line.
The choice to shut out the WSOP Circuit season with the TOC at The Commerce forces gamers so as to add a couple of journey days to their schedules that can already be filled with WSOP occasions in Las Vegas. The earlier two TOCs occurred in Las Vegas. Final 12 months, 430 gamers entered the TOC, which was one of many first occasions of the 12 months.
The venue change for the TOC got here with the April announcement that the WSOP and Commerce entered a “partnership.”
“Commerce’s fame as the most important and greatest year-round poker site aligns completely with our want to broaden the model whereas additionally selling the expansion of the summer season competition,” mentioned Ty Stewart, Senior Vice President & Government Director of the WSOP. “We sit up for delivering thrilling occasions and experiences that develop curiosity in our resilient and resurgent recreation.”
