WSOP Bracelet Winner Cord Garcia Captures Third WSOP Circuit Gold Ring
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team is at Florida’s Seminole Coconut Creek to live report action from both the $2,200 High Roller and $1,700 Main Event, but is just one of a 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 #8: $600 NLH Turbo, 84 runners created a $43,260 prize pool that was paid out to the top 13 players. Among those to cash but fall short of the final table were Tomas Teran Paredes (10th - $961), Hagai Stein (11th - $961), Dragan Lunic (12th - $961), and Ryan Van Sanford (13th - $872).
In the end, WSOP bracelet winner “Colossus” Cord Garcia denied Event #4 champ Scott Robert his second ring of the stop. For the victory, Garcia took home $13,098 and his third career gold ring.
“I doubled somebody up the first hand of the final table so I went back into top four,” said Garcia, who began the final table as chip leader. “But then a couple of shorties busted and I got lucky once. It went pretty smooth.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cord Garcia | Houston, Texas | $13,098 |
| 2 | Scott Roberts | N/A | $8,096 |
| 3 | Tyler Phillips | Charlotte, North Carolina | $5,502 |
| 4 | Mark Amaral | Middleton, Massachusetts | $3,860 |
| 5 | Tuan Pham | Rockford, Illinois | $2,799 |
| 6 | Lisa Roberts | Marietta, Georgia | $2,100 |
| 7 | Zachary Mullennix | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | $1,632 |
| 8 | Nick Yunis | N/A | $1,316 |
| 9 | Eric Salazar | Greensboro, North Carolina | $1,102 |