2022 World Series of Poker Circuit Bally’s Las Vegas $1,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event The drew a field of 468 total entries to build a prize pool of $709,956. When all was said and done, Andrea Buonocore emerged victorious with the title and the largest share of the prize money. The Italian player earned $143,229 and his first WSOPC gold ring for the win. Buonocore now has $548,967 in career tournament earnings to his name.

“It feels amazing. I haven’t played tournaments in a long time. I’ve been only playing cash games,” Buonocore told WSOP reporters after his win. “I was playing my regular $100-$200 game in Bobby’s room. It wasn’t really a good game and the game broke, so I wasn’t sure what to do next. I checked online and saw they had this tournament, so I registered very late. I went deep and everything went my way.”

In addition to the title and the money, Buonocore also secured 720 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his first POY-qualified score of the year, but it was enough to move him into a six-way tie for 141st place in the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.

The top 71 finishers made the money in this event, with plenty of accomplished players cashing due to the event taking place in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. Notables who made deep runs include two-time bracelet winner Nipun Java (29th – $3,879), two-time ring winners Eric Blair (25th – $4,407) and Stanley Lee (22nd – $5,086), ring winner Ashley Sleeth (18th – $7,092), bracelet winner and eight-time ring winner Sean Yu (15th – $8,565), two-time Card Player Poker Tour main event winner Jon Turner (13th – $8,565), and World Poker Tour main event winner Jesse Sylvia (8th – $16,463).

The final day of this event began with just five players remaining. Bruce Vandervort was the first to fall, with his pocket tens being cracked by the pocket fours of Buonocore after the chips went in preflop. Buonocore rivered a set of […]

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