2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Thunder Valley

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

2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Thunder Valley

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
109
Prize
$130,667
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,700
Prize Pool
$627,210
Entries
414
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
273
Players Left
65

David Brookshire Captures Second Gold Ring w/ Event #7: $400 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Victory

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
David Brookshire
David Brookshire

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.

In Event #7: $400 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, 82 entrants created a $30,000 prize pool that was paid out to the top 13 players. Among those to cash but fall short of making the final table were Icha Ux (9th - $716), Jeff Hart (10th - $715), Allen Kessler (11th - $666), Danny Woolard (12th - $666), and Erik Eichmann (13th - $605).

In the end, it was David Brookshire besting Ho Lee in heads-up play to win the title for $9,084 and his second career gold ring.

“I feel really good. I feel like this is just the beginning of my career,” said Brookshire. “I’ve been playing professionally for three years, I got 14 or 15 wins now. I gotta give credit to Mike Matusow any time I win a tournament because if he didn’t teach me the stuff he taught me, and he wasn’t a friend and a mentor to me, I’d never be having in any of these wins.”

He continued: “I’ve been studying No-Limit for years and I’ve always thought there is a huge mathematical edge and less variance in the mixed games compared to no-limit. There’s just not enough mixed tournaments to play full-time schedule so I definitely have to play no limit too.”

Final Table Results

PlacePlayerHometownPrize
1David BrookshireBaltimore, Maryland$9,084
2Ho LeeAiea, Hawaii$5,614
3Maryo PaigeWinston Salem, North Carolina$3,815
4Dan StirSacramento, California$2,677
5Rommel SantosLakewood, California$1,941
6Kyle BunnN/A$1,456
7Douglas LockwoodMerced, California$1,132
8William ChavarriaSacramento, California$913

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