David Larson Comes Into Global Championship Already Qualified for Next Year's Edition
Last week the first stop of the new WSOP Circuit season, the tour was at Choctaw Durant in Oklahoma, which is where 48-year-old poker pro David Larson from Appleton, Wisconsin managed to claim two titles back-to-back within a 24-hour period.
Larson was making the trek here to Harrah’s Cherokee for the 2019 Global Casino Championship – which he qualified for by finishing as Casino Champ at the WSOPC Horseshoe Hammond in October of last year – when he decided to stop at Choctaw and play Event #7: $400 No-Limit Hold’em, a tournament that attracted 123 entries and created a $40,590 prize pool. Larson bagged the Day 1 chip lead, which he took into the final table before winning it all for $11,057 and his third career ring.
With the first win, the former software engineer became the 132nd player to win three or more WSOP Circuit rings. He didn’t stop there as the next day he fired Event #9: $250 NLH and bested a 180-entry field to win it for $9,137.
“Today I felt more pressure because I won yesterday but also people were afraid of me because I won yesterday,” he told WSOP officials. “People definitely played a little more conservative today so it was harder for them to give-up their chips and yesterday people were a lot more splashy.”
Larson became the 55th player to win four or more rings, though his have all come in the last calendar year.
“This is definitely the most fun I’ve had,” he said. “I’ve won a lot more money playing poker but this is for sure the most fun I’ve ever had.”
The back-to-back also propelled Larson to victory on the WSOPC Choctaw leaderboard, which meant he's already secured a seat into the 2020 Global Casino Championship.