While the WSOP’s first starting days of the Main Event were churning away , a new WPT DeepStacks champion was crowned at Oklahoma’s Choctaw Casino in another sign that live tournament poker is starting to return to “normal” across the country. Jared Ward took down the WPT Deepstack event at Choctaw Casino. (Image: WPT) On Monday, Jared Ward took down the $1,100 WPT DeepStacks Main Event for $102,200.
That payout includes a $2,500 entry in the WPT DeepStacks Championship Dec. 4-7 at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, California, and $500 in travel funds.
Ward outlasted 544 other players to claim his first six-figure score and first live tournament victory. And it almost didn’t happen. Ward was one of the last players to enter , registering on the Day 1B dinner break.
By the time he had made worked his late entry to the final table, Ward was a short stack with just 22 big blinds.
“I was trying to wait and let some of the shorter stacks bust out,” Ward told WPT reporters. “That happened and then I just caught cards at the right time.” Top Finishers WPT DeepStacks Choctaw Main Event
> Jared Ward – $102.200
Marc Maxey – $66,100
Nick Pupillo – $48,660
Mo Khan – $36,240 Andreas Halikias – $27,305 Shawn Ramsey – $20,815 Tony Nguyen – $16,060 Patrick Lenihan – $12,540 For runner-up finisher Marc Maxey, from across the border in Texas, the tournament gave him his second-largest cash … and his first five-figure score since final tabling a WSOP Circuit event at Choctaw (5th place for $92,779) in 2015.With more than $3.7 million in tournament cashes, Nick Pupillo may have been the favorite to win as play went to three-handed, but was crippled by Ward in a hand that shows how painful poker can be. One hand into three-handed play, Ward raised under the gun with two black 9s and Pupillo re-raised him to 1.2 million. It took Ward a few minutes before moving all-in for 4.7 million. Now it was Pupillo’s turn to tank, but he made the call with AQ.Pupillo took the lead with a […]
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