Poker Couple Ashley Sleeth & Jesse Sylvia Both Capture Titles in Las Vegas
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Move over Alex Foxen and Kristen Bicknell. Poker has a new power couple – at least for this week!
Jesse Sylvia and Ashley Sleeth, who are engaged, both found success within a week of each other out in Las Vegas. That is where the World Series of Poker Circuit is playing out at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, and also the DeepStack Extravaganza I series wrapped up at the Venetian.
Sleeth Puts a Ring on It
In the WSOPC Rio, Event #6: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo attracted 205 entrants, which created a $67,650 prizepool. In the end, it was Sleeth who came out on top to capture a $17,586 first-place prize and a coveted gold ring.
"I am really committed to tournaments now, and I am really excited about it."
"I'm feeling awesome," Sleeth told WSOP officials after her win. "I had a bigger stack to my left. I kind of was handcuffed at the beginning [of the final table], but then I opened and he shoved all in when I had aces, so then I doubled up through him."
The win brought Sleeth’s lifetime tournament earnings up to $198,669. It marked the second-largest score of her career behind the $31,300 she won for taking second in last November’s Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza IV Event #30: $1,100 Double Stack, and just ahead of the $17,243 she won for taking 786th in the 2018 WSOP Main Event.
"I am really committed to tournaments now, and I am really excited about it," said Sleeth.
WSOPC Rio Event #6 Final Table Results
| Position | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashely Sleeth | Locahatchee, Florida | $17,586 |
| 2 | Christian Smith | Manhattan, Kansas | $10,865 |
| 3 | Scott Cooper | Mauldin, South Carolina | $7,845 |
| 4 | Christina Read | Sugar Hill, Georgia | $5,762 |
| 5 | Maxx Dansky | Nashville, Tennessee | $4,350 |
| 6 | Ivan Zarate | Reno, Nevada | $3,271 |
| 7 | Jason Seitz | Shakopee, Minnesota | $2,527 |
| 8 | Bobby Poe | Las Vegas, Nevada | $1,984 |
| 9 | Reuben Peters | Boston, Massachusetts | $1,583 |
Sylvia Follows Up with Venetian Victory
The Venetian wrapped up its DeepStack Extravaganza I series over the weekend. It culminated with Event #42: $1,600 NLH Main Event, a tournament that surpassed its $1 million guarantee by attracting 797 runners. That meant an $1,143,695 prize pool was paid out to the top 81 players.
The final table proved to be a stacked affair with the likes of 2012 WSOP Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia, James Carroll, Barry Hutter, and Joey Weissman.
According to updates from the event, Weissman got his chips in preflop with Big Slick and failed to win a race against Sylvia’s pocket jacks to bust in seventh place for $44,604. As for Hutter, he fell in fifth place after getting it in with pocket fours against both ace-king and ace-queen. Hutter did not prevail and was technically eliminated by Carroll.
It was actually Sylvia and Carroll who would make it to heads-up play, which is when they agreed to an even chop and to deal one more hand to determine the winner and recipient of the trophy. Carroll was dealt the A♣5♠ and Sylvia the 8♥3♦. The board ran out K♦5♥J♥7♠8♠ and Sylvia rivered a pair of eights to win it.
Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza I Main Event Results
| Position | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesse Sylvia | $184,707* |
| 2 | James Carroll | $184,707* |
| 3 | Mitch Garshofsky | $102,933 |
| 4 | J.F. Villacanas | $76,513 |
| 5 | Barry Hutter | $58,328 |
| 6 | Joey Weissman | $44,604 |
| 7 | Ben Ector | $34,311 |
| 8 | Peter Vitantonio | $26,305 |
| 9 | Vladimir Mefodichev | $20,587 |
| 10 | Rok Gostisa | $17,041 |
*Denotes heads-up deal.
*Lead photo c/o WSOP.
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