In every week that noticed the one two gamers in entrance of him on the World Sequence of Poker Circuit all-time win record get a pair extra rings, Daniel Lowery stayed proper behind them by successful the $250 Seniors occasion at Arduous Rock Tulsa for his seventeenth and $17,187.
A part of a subject of 448 entries who created a prize pool of $89,600, the win places him solely behind Ari Engel’s 19 and Maurice Hawkins’ 18 rings. Each these gamers gained rings within the final week — with Hawkins taking two throughout the final 30 days — to make the battle for probably the most rings good consuming for poker followers.
Lowery, a sawmill proprietor from Arkansas, is all for it.
“When it was right down to 13 or 14 rings, Ari and I form of challenged one another and it’s been enjoyable since then,” he instructed the WSOP. “This previous week’s been nice as a result of Maurice bought the one in Florida after which he miraculously wins that Predominant in Baltimore. He simply crushes, so he raised the bar just a little bit.
After which Josh Reichard is available in and wins quantity 16 and he’s additionally on the remaining desk with the chip lead in Hammond proper now. Ari gained one other to place him forward with 19. So the race is on. It’s such a fantastic week for the WSOP Circuit and I’m blissful to be part of it.”
Oh yeah, Reichard additionally saved himself in fourth on the leaderboard with a victory in a $400 H.O.R.S.E occasion at Horseshoe Hammond final week for his sixteenth ring. He’d go onto end third within the different occasion.
Lowery, as normal, had an enormous rail cheering him on and he says the help certainly does matter.
“In fact (it issues),” he mentioned. “It’s not simply motivating for me, nevertheless it’s very deflating for the opposite gamers once they lose a pot after which hear cheering for me on the opposite facet. It’s large, particularly on the WSOP within the thunderdome. You see these rails and it’s positively like a sporting occasion.”
Lowery, like Hawkins, has but to win a WSOP bracelet, however wish to be a part of Engel with no less than one. He plans on placing in a ton of labor at this yr’s WSOP in Las Vegas.
“I plan to be there 5 of the seven weeks. Lots of these bracelets, although they’re diluted, I’d nonetheless wish to have one. I’ve navigated large fields on the circuit and on the WSOP, so I really feel like I’m on the cusp. I really feel like I’m one of many higher ones to navigate a 3,000-player subject. I like my possibilities on that, I’ve by no means misplaced focus after I’m in these fields.”
Arduous Rock Hammond 2025 $250 Seniors Occasion Last Desk Outcomes:
Dan Lowery – $17,187
Basil Sweis – $11,457
Daven Flax – $7,953
Bradley Fullington – $5,631
Raymond Whitley – $4,068
Johnathan Wofford – $3,000
Douglas Vargas – $2,259
Charles Collier – $1,738
Marvin Donaldson – $1,366
William Fisher – $1,099
