Coker's the Name, Poker's the Game

Jacob Coker started his WSOP-C Harrah's Resort Atlantic City series off in grand fashion, winning Event #1, a $300+$65 buy-in event for which he took away a nifty $35,033 first prize. Coker has had a good start to his Main Event as well, building a stack through the first five levels, then grabbing a nice boost in a recent hand.

After preflop action had seen a player raising from middle position, it folded back to Coker who pushed all in from the small blind. It folded back to the raiser who called all in, and Coker quickly flipped over his . His opponent nodded in acknowledgement while tabling his , and after the board ran out another player has hit the rail.

Meanwhile, Coker is up around 60,000, one of the biggest stacks in the room at present. Here are the final table payouts from that Event #1 won by Coker:

WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Atlantic City Ring Event #1 No-Limit Hold’em

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$300+$65	536	$162,944

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Jacob Coker	Philadelphia, PA	$35,033
2	Brian Benden	Waldorf, MD	$21,660
3	Thomas Coan	Hauppauge, NY	$15,823
4	Harold Schmidt	Falmouth, VA	$11,730
5	Chinmay Patel	Brigantine, NJ	$8,822
6	Casey Jarzabek	St. Catherines, ON, Canada	$6,730
7	Gennady Fayer	Baltimore, MD	$5,206
8	Samuel Scheidecker	Marysville, WA	$4,085
9	Albert Frampton	Maple Shade, NJ	$3,251