Low Crowd Record in WSOP Circuit Main Event


23 Oct , 2008 - Posted by Dan in World Series of Poker

The WSOP Circuit lately finished a stop at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana. This Poker event saw a sharp decrease in the number of overall contestants unlike many circuit events over the years. The previous record low for the Main Event of a WSOP Circuit event was 99. This event drew a trivial 84 players only. Big name stars of the poker world were noticeably absent from this event. Bernard Lee was eliminated before the end of Day 1 and he was the only significant name in the field.

Play that was planned to last until 3 a.m. in the morning on Day 1 was on the brink at around 10 pm just to give an idea of how small this field was. Lasting just under 5 hours Day 2 was also another very short day. David and Stacy Kopacz, a husband and wife pair made it deep into Day 2, but only David would make the final table.

Because of the small field size, merely 9 players completed in the money and in the finish this is what the final table appears like:

Seat 1: Jerry Martin 139,500
Seat 2: David Kopacz 151,000
Seat 3: Samuel Oberlin 229,500
Seat 4: Jamin Stokes 189,500
Seat 5: Dean Schultz 114,000
Seat 6: Joey Couden 128,000
Seat 7: Derek Whelan 117,500
Seat 8: Ray Lynn 17,500
Seat 9: Len Ashby 177,000

Play ended up three handed between David Kopacz, Samuel Oberlin, and Jerry Martin in conclusion. Martin in one hand took a dominating having an enormous Poker chip lead when he eliminated David Kopacz after flopping a set with pocket queens.

With almost a 5 to 1 chip lead over Oberlin Heads up play saw Martin enter. Oberlin was just over 200,000 and Martin had just over 1 Million in chips. To put Oberlin back in contention simply took one hand. Queens held and Oberlin had in excess of a half million in Poker chips.

With some strong betting a few hands later and then another huge confrontation occurred between the two Oberlin took the lead. Martin moved all-in against Oberlin and Oberlin called with the flop showing Jc-4c-5h. Oberlin was holding pocket queens again. Martin needed help and was holding J-7 but it did not arrive. Samuel Oberlin overcame an immense chip shortage to win the first WSOP Circuit Title of the season.

Oberlin won the gold circuit championship ring as well as $143,064. His win goes to prove that many times the player that catches the cards wins up the winner when you reach heads up play.

The WSOP Circuit will be heading next to Hammond; IN. the first circuit event in the Chicago, IL area will take place Starting the 24th. Details regarding the happening can be found at WSOP web site. For this event, it will be motivating to see the interest in the Chicago area. It is hard to tell with the current state of the economy. With any luck the recent trend in low attendance will start to reverse.

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