2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant

$2,200 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant

Event Info
Buy-in
$2,200
Entries
108
Players Left
108
Average Chip Stack
30,000
Total Chips
3,240,000
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
10,000 / 25,000
Ante
25,000
Players Info - Day 1
Entries
104
Players Left
21

Jeff Hood Wins First Ring in Event #6: $400 NLH Turbo

Level 14 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante
Jeff Hood
Jeff Hood

While PokerNews is here offering live updates from the Main Event and High Roller, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about the full schedule of side events that have been playing out over the past week at the World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant.

In Event #6: $400 NLH Turbo, 255 runners created a $84,1500 prize pool that was paid out to the top 40 players. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were Michael Clements (11th - $1,347), Daniel Lowery (13th - $1,118), Oscar Penn (17th - $948), James Baune (33rd - $556), and Robert Keeling (37th - $551).

In the end, it was 53-year old Austin, Texas native Jeff Hood who earned $19,338 along with his first gold ring in the process.

“That was my first tournament [series] I went to,” Hood mentioned, referring to the most recent Rio Circuit in Las Vegas. “That one, I should have been more aggressive. Seventh was great, but this feels really good to get this ring.”

Final-table finishes can leave players yearning for what could have been. This time around it was nothing but satisfaction for Hood who is relatively new to the world of poker.

“I started playing about three years ago,” Hood disclosed. “We have a kind of game in our office a guy invited me to. He mentored me. Steve Rosser is his name. Read a lot of books. Took Negreanu’s Master Class. Read a lot of stuff and got good experience.”

Although young in practice, Hood has been diligent with his studies since entering the poker scene. Only three years in and the semi-retired Patent Lawyer has already reached the WSOP gold ring club.

Final Table Results

PlacePlayerHometownPrize
1Jeff HoodDallas, Texas$19,338
2Bobby FuentesSunnyvale, Texas$11,952
3William WhittonSunnyvale, Texas$8,532
4Rodney SpriggsJoplin, Missouri$6,199
5Reitta SeidelSan Antonio, Texas$4,586
6Dylan EasleyFredricksburg, Texas$3,455
7Sai Raghu UppalaShawnee Mission, Kansas$2,652
8William McgeeOklahoma City, Oklahoma$2,075
9John BengelsdorfTacoma, Washington$1,655