Matthew Higgins Wins The World Series Of Poker Circuit Tunica Main Event

Matthew Higgins – Photo Credit: WSOP Circuit/Horsehoe Tunica

Matthew Higgins has captured the highest prize within the World Series of Poker Circuit essential occasion that introduced the match collection to a detailed on the Horseshoe Casino & Hotel in Tunica, Mississippi. This takes the WSOP Circuit gold ring rely for Higgins as much as 5 due to 4 earlier victories in North Carolina together with this most up-to-date win on Jan. 29. His profession earnings at the moment are near $1.75 million with this, his fifth six-figure rating within the books.

“This is ring five. We had control for most of the day, we caught a very friendly punt early in the day that gave me the lead over everybody,” mentioned Higgins shortly after the win to reporters.

He continued with a couple of ideas when requested in regards to the motion on the remaining desk, “I got lean on them and make them worry about ICM. I applied pressure most of the time and when we got down to three-handed, Dale (Roesel) was putting pressure on me a lot. I forgot how good he was. When BJ (McBrayer) was short, we were so deep and I had a hand that I couldn’t lay it down. It was a real friendly table, everybody battled. We weren’t going to rub anyone’s nose in any bluffs.”

The $1,700 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match noticed a area of 568 entries be a part of the fray throughout two beginning flights. That took the prize pool as much as $791,673 to high the half-million assure.

The high 60 gamers made the cash for a min-cash price $3,356, and all of these gamers returned for Day 2. Notables that made a deep run within the match included many former WSOP Circuit victors with 14-time winner Daniel Lowery (eleventh), Spencer Champlin (fifteenth), Jared Ingles (sixteenth), and 15-time winner Maurice Hawkins (thirtieth) all within the hunt late into the match.

The remaining day noticed only a half-dozen gamers return with an opportunity on the match title, and Higgins was second in chips when playing cards acquired into the air. He took out Marty Martin in sixth place to take the chip lead by the primary break in play, and he cruised from there to the spectacular fifth WSOP Circuit title.

He by no means relinquished the chip lead and took out achieved match skilled B.J. MacBrayer in third place to take that benefit into the heads-up remaining as nicely. Higgins furthered his lead in opposition to Dale Roesel when he knocked out certainly one of his legs and took a 3rd of his stack within the first hand between the ultimate two gamers.

All the cash acquired within the center solely as soon as between the ultimate two contenders, and Higgins held Q-3 offsuit in opposition to the suited 8-4 of Roesel. Higgins discovered one other queen on the flop, and that was it for Roesel, who took house $103,248 for the runner-up end to take his profession earnings up near $1.3 million.

Here is a take a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the remaining desk:

The subsequent cease on the WSOP Circuit schedule begins on Feb. 1 on the Harrah’s Pompano Beach in Florida, with a $1,700 buy-in essential occasion that runs from Feb. 8-12. You can see the complete schedule for the match collection proper right here.