Ari Engel received two World Series of Poker Circuit gold rings in consecutive occasions on the 2023 WSOP Circuit Graton Casino cease in Northern California. His back-to-back victories have been sufficient to maneuver him right into a tie with Maurice Hawkins atop the tour’s titles leaderboard, with each gamers having come out on prime in 15 WSOPC occasions of their careers.
Hawkins had retaken the lead together with his fifteenth win earlier this 12 months, rising victorious in a $2,200 excessive curler no-limit maintain’em occasion on the Harrah’s Cherokee cease in May.
Engel got here into the first-ever operating of the WSOPC Graton Casino cease tied with Dan Lowery for third place on the rings leaderboard with 13 wins every. Engel then topped a discipline of 61 entries within the $400 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. occasion to safe $6,647 and his 14th ring. That victory moved him right into a tie for second with Joshua Reichard.
The very subsequent occasion on provide was one other $400 buy-in. This time round, the sport was pot-limit Big O. This occasion drew the identical discipline dimension because the earlier one with 61 entries. In the top, Engel scooped the final pot to lock up $6,564 and his record-tying 15th ring.
Engel, a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, now has greater than $8.6 million in recorded match earnings to his title. He has recorded 173 in-the-money finishes in WSOPC occasions, totaling $1,001,122.
The 39-year-old poker professional has now made 20 closing tables in 2023, accruing 5 titles alongside the way in which. He earned 116 complete Card Player Player of the Year factors for his two newest gold ring victories, bringing his level complete to 2,356. As a consequence, he has climbed into 93rd place within the 2023 POY race standings offered by Global Poker.
Below is a take a look at the complete final-table outcomes from his two wins at Graton Casino.
WSOPC Graton Casino $400 H.O.R.S.E.
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Ari Engel | $6,647 | 58 |
| 2 | Luis Olsen | $4,108 | 48 |
| 3 | Eduardo Palmerin | $2,693 | 38 |
| 4 | Jesse Rios | $1,851 | 29 |
| 5 | Rick Green | $1,337 | 24 |
| 6 | Scott Balfour | $1,017 | 19 |
| 7 | Kory Swekla | $818 | 14 |
| 8 | David Turner | $697 | 10 |
WSOPC Graton Casino $400 Pot-Limit Big O
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points |
| 1 | Ari Engel | $6,564 | 58 |
| 2 | Jonathan Malcolm | $4,056 | 48 |
| 3 | Kenneth Po | $2,691 | 38 |
| 4 | Nicholas Mccabe | $1,859 | 29 |
| 5 | Christopher Watson | $1,340 | 24 |
| 6 | Christopher Linger | $1,010 | 19 |
| 7 | Eugene Chun | $797 | 14 |
| 8 | Rick Green | $681 | 10 |
Winner photograph credit: WSOP / Hayley Hochstetler.
