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 |
and Jim now took the lead with his set of tens. The 
turn and 
river did not improve Wang's hand as he doubled up Jim.
, Michael Rossitto bet 5,100 over to his opponent who called. The river was the 
. Rossitto fired again, this time for 8,500. 
. Andrew Ostapchenko moved all in into a pot of roughly 75,000.
flop. Pahuja checked to Cioffi who bet 8,000 and Pahuja then check-raised all in. Cioffi quickly threw his cards into the muck, sending the pot to Pahuja.
and saw the bad news as his opponent had the 
for two pair. The turn was the 
to give Efron what was likely the largest pot of the day thus far.
of his opponent, but Pahuja still had outs as he was holding 
for a flush draw and the 
landed on the turn, giving Pahuja a flush and the best hand.