WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event Set to Begin
The Main Event of the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort WSOP Circuit stop kicks off today bright and early at 11 a.m. in what is always one of the most popular stops on the WSOPc calendar.
August was the last time the circuit rolled around to the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Cherokee. In the main event, Billy Cashwell topped a field of 1,057 entrants and overcame a large heads up deficit vs Forrest Raleigh to take home his first WSOP circuit ring.
Turning the calendar back to last December in Cherokee, it was none other than Jake Bazeley who won the main event for a whopping $311,616.
Play begins at 11 a.m. today for Day 1a, while Day 1b will commence at the same 11 a.m. time on Saturday December 7. Day 1 will consist of 16 levels of play, which are 40 minutes in length for the first 15 levels of play with level 16 being 60 minutes. If the field is reduced to 16% remaining before the completion of 16 levels, play will end at that moment. Fifteen-minute breaks will be every three levels (two hours) with an hour dinner break after level 9 (roughly 5:30 p.m.).
The $1,700 buy in will give each player a 30,000 chip stack and one re-entry is allowed per flight.
PokerNews will be on hand to provide full coverage of the Main Event from start to finish
, Brad Albrinck bet 3,000. He was raised to 8,000 by his opponent. Albrinck thought for while before raising all in and was snap called by his opponent.
was crushed by the 
set of his opponent. But the river changed everything as it came the 
to give Albrinck a dramatic double up.
for the nut flush and collected the nice pot.
. A chunky pot of at least 70,000 was in the middle. David Prociak applied maximum pressure to his opponent by putting out a full stack of big chips for a bet of 100,000.
