Hobson Wins Massive Re-Entry Event for First Ring

Re-entry events tend to be big, and Event #4 $365 No-Limit Hold'em Re-entry at the Harrah’s New Orleans was no exception. The tournament, which was scheduled for two days but had to add a third due to the large field size, attracted 800 players and created a prize pool of $240,000. Of them, 117 survived to Day 2, and then five returned for the impromptu Day 3.

One of those players was 56-year-old Machining and Coding business owner David Hobson, who actually entered the final table eighth in chips. The part-time poker player from Leeds, Alabama managed to make quads in two hands within five minutes to put him back in contention, and he rode that momentum all the way to victory.

It marked Hobson’s first gold ring, with his only previous WSOP Circuit cash coming at last year’s IP Biloxi stop where he finished in 46th place. Needless to say, this performance and the accompanying $48,000 prize blew that out of the water.

Other notables who made the money included Paul Sokoloff, Phillip Hui, Joshua Evans, Joshua Pender, Aaron Massey, Ylon Schwartz, Adam Teasedale, Robert Panitch, Tripp Kirk and Quan Nguyen.

WSOP Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Ring Event #4 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$300+$65	800	$240,000

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	David Hobson	Leeds, AL	$48,000
2	Jeremy Dunn	Birmingham, AL	$29,592
3	Joey Wideman	Calera, AL	$21,816
4	Christopher Dupuy	Baton Rouge, LA	$16,260
5	Eric Weston	Saint Charles, MO	$12,281
6	Adam Laskey	Fargo, ND	$9,396
7	Barron Whipple	Houma, LA	$7,279
8	Andrew Moon	Vidalia, LA	$5,710
9	Vincent Fucillo	Merced, CA	$4,534