The event featured five starting flights and a second, and final, day of play. The top 272 spots got paid, min-cashes starting from $294. They created a prize pool of $845,790, easily beating the $777,777 guarantee.
As many as 2,563 entries registered into the tournament. The opening event at Horseshoe Hammond once again drew a massive field. He told WSOP staff after his triumph in the series that he had not planned to take part in the upcoming Main Event but, encouraged by his success in the opening event, he decided to take a shot at the $1,700 buy-in tournament that is set to take place over the weekend. And the player played the Horseshoe Hammond stop for a fifth straight year. Fuchs scoops first WSOP Circuit title after a decade of playing poker recreationallyĬhris Fuchs, an IT sales specialist by day, topped the behemoth field of the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond Opening Event for his debut gold ring from the series and a hefty first-place prize of $124,385.įuchs has been playing poker recreationally for over a decade now.
