Other players who picked up rings at WSOPC Graton include Albert Tapia ( Event #9: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Monster Stack - $40,950), Ian Mckinnon ( Event #4: $400 No-Limit Hold'em - $25,323) and Taylor Pollard ( Event #18: $3,250 High Roller - $60,641). The current casino floor spans 320,000 square feet and has more than 3,000 slot machines and 120 live dealer table games. Before that, Southern California grinder Shirley Rosario won Event #8: $400 Limit Omaha 8 for $9,193 and her third Circuit ring. Graton Resort & Casino opened in 2013 at a cost of 825 million. As the series wound down, Allen Kessler took down Event #15: $400 Stud 8 / Omaha 8 for $18,810 and his fourth Circuit ring after a decade-long drought. Longtime Circuit crusher Ari Engel picked up his 14th and 15th rings in back-to-back events to tie Maurice Hawkins in first on the all-time ring list, which PokerNews wrote about here.įurther shifting the all-time Circuit ring list, Daniel Lowery took down Event #13: $1,125 Pot-Limit Omaha for a 14th Circuit ring and $21,518, which can be read about here. Michael Persky celebrates winning his first Circuit ringĪnd Persky wasn't the only player to dominate at the inaugural Northern California Circuit stop. The grill is seasoned, the ribs are smoked and the sauce is flowing at the new Everett & Jones Bar-B-Q, which opened Friday at Graton Resort & Casino in Rohnert Park. In that event, Persky fell to fellow Californian Albert Gorelik, who took home $88,888 and his second Circuit ring before winning Event #12: $1,125 No-Limit Hold'em for $30,004 and a third ring.

At the start of the series, Persky finished 20th in Event #1: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Big 30K Stack for $1,077 before going on to finish runner-up in Event #3: $600 No-Limit Hold'em for $54,900.

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