Shannon Shorr Wins WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Main Event for First Ring & $207,615
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The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) event at the Horseshoe Las Vegas is one of the most important stops on the WSOPC calendar.
This year, the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas paid out $3,775,202 over the course of two weeks from March 20 to April 1. These prizes were spread over 18 ring events.
One of the 18 rings and $207,615 of those dollars went to longtime poker pro Shannon Shorr for taking down the Main Event for his first WSOP Circuit win.
Shannon Shorr Wins His First WSOPC Ring
Shorr beat Jordyn Miller heads up to win the $1,700 Main Event at the Horseshoe Las Vegas.
After three days of play, the pair were the last two competitors remaining from a field that started with 774 entries.
The high turnout put $1,172,610 in the prize pool. Miller and Shorr ended up battling it out for a $207,615 first-place prize. However, for Shorr the money may have mattered less than the gold ring.
Shorr is in the top 100 players for live cashes with a total of $14.9 million, according to The Hendon Mob. The Alabama all-time money leader has a pair of online WSOP bracelets on his wrist and a tournament record of 244 live cashes under the WSOP/WSOPC brand.
However, the ring he won in the Main Event was his first live victory for WSOP gold as both of his bracelets were won online.
The road to victory was rough at first.
“I had a lot of chips going into Day 2, but things just went terribly. I was getting roughed up," Shorr said after his win, as reported on WSOP.com.
However, things turned around after he pulled off a big bluff near the bubble. "That was big for momentum," Shorr explained. "After that, I just got completely run over by the deck. I had five times the average stack at one point, and everything just kind of fell into place.”
Miller took home $138,394 for second place.
WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shannon Shorr | Las Vegas, NV | $207,615 |
| 2 | Jordyn Miller | Las Vegas, NV | $138,394 |
| 3 | John Longowa | Lake St Louis, MO | $96,751 |
| 4 | Emily Xie | Brooklyn, NY | $68,751 |
| 5 | Evan Sandberg | Las Vegas, NV | $49,672 |
| 6 | Michael Johnson | Las Vegas, NV | $36,499 |
| 7 | Dennis Yoder | Chesapeake, VA | $27,283 |
| 8 | Terry Fleischer | Las Vegas, NV | $20,753 |
| 9 | Tomas Szwarcberg | Mexico City, Mexico | $16,070 |
Women Shine at the Horseshoe
It was a big festival for women in poker as three of the 18 Circuit rings up for grabs went to women, including the first event of the series. Evangeline Ayed won Event #1: $400 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em.
Ayed has worked as a WSOP dealer for 25 years and but was just as sharp on the other side of the deck, beating a field of 1,408 players to take home $464,640.
WSOPC veteran Shirley Rosario won her fourth WSOPC ring by taking down Event #6: $600 Omaha 8 or Better for $15,792. As a four-card specialist, all four of Rosario's rings have been in Omaha 8-or-better events.
The third woman to earn a ring at the Horseshoe was Gladys Landegger, who won her second WSOPC ring and $10,189 in the Ladies Event.
Other winners at the Horseshoe included bracelet winner Francis Anderson, who took down the $3,300 High Roller for $56,358. Earlier in the series, Anderson finished 51st in the Main Event for $4,539.
The WSOP Circuit Endgame
The 2024/2025 season of the WSOPC is in its last stretch, with five events left before the switch to the 2025/2026 season.
The WSOP Circuit Grand Victoria begins tomorrow, April 3, and runs until April 14.
Shortly after the Grand Victoria riverboat casino slams its hatches on the WSOPC, the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica opens its doors on April 17.
After that there are events scheduled at Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina, The Commerce in L.A., and Caesars Southern Indiana.
You can catch recaps of all the action here on PokerNews.
WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas Full Series Results
*Photos courtesy WSOP/8131 Media
