Nick Shkolnik Wins First Gold Ring in Event #2: $400 NLH Re-Entry
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is at Thunder Valley to live report action from both the $1,700 Main Event and $3,250 High Roller, but those are just a couple of the dozen gold ring events at the stop. As such, we thought we’d profile some of the preliminary tournaments and those who struck it big.
One such tournament was Event #2: $400 NLH Re-Entry, which attracted 1,166 runners over five flights and generated a $384,780 prize pool.
In the end, it was part-time poker pro Nick Shkolnik coming out on top to win the title, $63,335 in prize money, and his first gold ring.
“It feels good. It means that I’m doing something right in poker tournaments, that I can compete with a lot of players,” said Shkolnik, who was fresh off finishing 20th in the 2019 WSOP $1,111 Little One for One Drop for $23,825.
“I was just playing my game,” he said of his run to victory. “I have experience being at final tables.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nick Shkolnik | Sun Valley, California | $63,335 |
| 2 | Teng Vang | Sacramento, California | $39,136 |
| 3 | Nicholaus Wooderson | Vacaville, California | $29,580 |
| 4 | Quy Dao | San Jose, California | $22,550 |
| 5 | Angelo Kratsas | San Francisco, California | $17,340 |
| 6 | Khanh Tran | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | $13,451 |
| 7 | Dan Stir | Sacramento, California | $10,527 |
| 8 | Joshua Steiner | Chevy Chase, Maryland | $8,312 |
| 9 | Jerome Williams | Lodi, California | $6,623 |