2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Cherokee

$1,700 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Cherokee

Final Results
Winner
Erik Gorman
Winning Hand
aq
Prize
$260,480
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,700
Entries
1,000
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 100,000
Ante
200,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
381
Players Left
60

Champlin Doesn't Budge

Level 15 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Spencer Champlin called a bet of 4,500 from his opponent on a flop of {q-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{k-Spades}. The turn came the {6-Spades}. His opponent led out for a bet of 17,500 which Champlin called swiftly.

The river came the {a-Spades}. The first player to act thought a long time and eventually had to have the clock called on him before checking and Champlin quickly checked back.

Champlin turned over the winning hand with the {q-Hearts}{4-Hearts} and collected the chips into his big stack.

Player Chips Progress
Spencer Champlin us
Spencer Champlin
330,000 257,000

Tags: Spencer Champlin

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

Rothwell Cracks Aces in Huge Three-Way All In

Level 14 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Randall Rothwell
Randall Rothwell

Action was retold after the hand was completed.

Multiple limpers entered the pot to a player who raised to 17,000, he gold one caller who matched the 17,000 bet. The shortest stack then jammed his stack of about 40,000. Randall Rothwell then jammed his larger stack of over 100,000 and was snap called by the last player to act.

Rothwell was in trouble with the {k-Spades}{q-Spades} against the {a-}{a-} of his opponent who had him covered. The shortest stack all in had {a-}{9-}.

The flop sent Rothwell into the lead though as it came {k-}{6-}{q-} to give him two-pair. The turn was a {5-} and the river a {8-} and Rothwell collected the huge pot, eliminating one player and greatly wounding the player who had held aces.

Player Chips Progress
Randall Rothwell us
Randall Rothwell
380,000 380,000

Tags: Randall Rothwell

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

Prociak Uses Big Stack

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
David Prociak
David Prociak

The board was fully displayed reading {3-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{k-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{3-Clubs}. 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.

His opponent stewed over the decision for several moments before pitching his cards into the muck and Prociak collected a nice boon to his huge stack.

Player Chips Progress
David Prociak us
David Prociak
WSOP 1X Winner
390,000 390,000

Tags: David Prociak

Chip Counts; Hawkins Surging Up

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Maurice Hawkins was seen collected a decent size pot on a board of {9-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{6-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{q-Clubs} after the action went check-check on the river. The record-setting circuit ring winner has had a splendid day thus far as he looks to close amongst the big stacks.

Player Chips Progress
Maurice Hawkins us
Maurice Hawkins
320,000 105,000
Charles Jones us
Charles Jones
215,000 215,000
Aaron Massey us
Aaron Massey
140,000 65,000
Leo Chen us
Leo Chen
125,000 80,000
Brett Feder us
Brett Feder
87,000 -61,000
Leif Force us
Leif Force
WSOP 1X Winner
52,000 52,000

Rightnour Shoves on Moses

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The board read {9-Clubs}{4-Diamonds}{j-Clubs}{8-Spades} when Matthew Rightnour shoved his stack of about 63,000 into a pot of close to 40,000.

David Moses talked it out trying to asses his opponent for a while.

After close to a minute Moses laid it down and Rghtnour was able to take it the pot to leave Moses wondering.

Player Chips Progress
David Moses us
David Moses
WSOP 1X Winner
125,000 -13,000
Matthew Rightnour us
Matthew Rightnour
103,000 103,000

Tags: David Moses

Carol Porter Turns $250 Into $34,534 in Seniors Event

Level 13 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Carol Porter
Carol Porter

PokerNews is in town to live report the Main Event here at the World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee, but that is just one of the gold ring events that will have played out by the end of the series.

One of them was the first $250 buy-in Seniors Event, which attracted a robust 1,006 runners. That meant the $201,200 prize pool was paid out to the top 151 entries including Kayla Pursley (10th - $2,804), Eddie Rayl (20th - $1,541), Paul Koenig (28th - $929), Alan Barefoot (36th - $699), Jimmy McQueen (46th - $549), Martin Poole (51st - $549), Gary Woods (65th - $451), Ricky Milton (74th - $416), and Seung Yang (79th - $416).

In the end, Carol Porter of Knoxville, Tennessee beat Doug Hutcheson in heads-up play to win the ring and a healthy $34,534 first-place prize.

Final Table Results

PlacePlayerHometownPrize
1Carol PorterKnoxville, Tennessee$34,534
2Douglas HutchesonCouncil Bluffs, Iowa$21,343
3Eric CouchmanFayetteville, North Carolina$16,018
4John ThorsenCharlotte, North Carolina$12,134
5Danny WilsonGastonia, North Carolina$9,279
6Robert HattonMonroe, Georgia$7,164
7Timothy StoneLawrenceville, Georgia$5,584
8Troy CunninghamN/A$4,395
9Dale MenghePeoria, Arizona$3,493

Tags: Carol Porter

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000