Michael Zaino Doubles Career Earnings With Event #5: $600 NLH Victory
While PokerNews is only live reporting the High Roller and Main Event tournaments at the World Series of Poker Circuit Foxwoods stop, there have been plenty of other side events playing out all week long.
One of them was Event #5: $600 No-Limit Hold’em, a tournament that drew 156 entries and created an $80,340 prize pool. Up top was $21,050, and capturing that prize – and doubling his lifetime earnings in the process – was 25-year-old Michael Zaino from Wethersfield, Connecticut.
He began the final table as the chip leader and went wire-to-wire to captured his first WSOP Circuit gold ring. To do it he had to defeat Stephen Friedrich in heads-up play, and also went through Andrew Lauer, who was denied a fourth gold ring after busting in sixth place for $3,495.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Zaino | Wethersfield, Connecticut | $21,050 |
| 2 | Stephen Friedrich | Tolland, Connecticut | $12,999 |
| 3 | Hilary Dombrowski | Gloucester, Massachusetts | $9,038 |
| 4 | [Removed:321] Haghdoust | Millbury, Massachusetts | $6,427 |
| 5 | Olivier Lacoste | Strasbourg, France | $4,684 |
| 6 | Andrew Lauer | Granby, Connecticut | $3,495 |
| 7 | Michael Cervantes | San Francisco, California | $2,667 |
| 8 | Solomon Yi | Norwalk, Connecticut | $2,097 |
| 9 | Daniel Hagenlocher | Glendale, New York | $1,695 |