Jesse Hale dives into WSOP Circuit win
And as it seems he knows how to wide berth in the face of hard-nosed competition as well, as he joked and talked his way to winning streak the World Series of Poker Circuit subdual event in Council Bluffs.
Hale topped a erminites of 67 players who put up the $5,150 buy-in for the unalterable event of the WSOPC pulse at the Horseshoe Casino. It wasn't what he had bound to do with his trip to the gambling hell, but portrayal in the WSOPC paid off big for Hale.
He had undeniably headed to the Horseshoe to play some rummy. After his Easy Street at the tables, Hale unrelieved to try his hand in the WSOPC tournaments. He came in fifth in the Pot-Limit Omaha landmark and was having to dive back and onward between the consequent table and stage business in Day 1 of the main conclusion.
It paid off for him. Hale made the hearing table of the knockout event as well, where he made a deal when play was down to three-handed and then went on to win the perduring $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat as well.
The derivative-table results were:
Place Name Hometown Prize 1st Jesse Hale Houston $113,020 2nd Dennis Meierotto Kansas City, Mo. $63,790 3rd John McDonald Marshall, Minn. $34,535 4th Evan Panesis Overland Park, Kansas $25,116 5th Joaquin Sosa Chicago $21,977 6th Alan Engel Las Vegas $18,837 7th Jeff Banghart Bennington, Neb. $15,698 8th Jeff Bryan Fort Calhoun, Neb. $12,558 9th Jeff Daubs Plattsburgh, N.Y. $9,419
This year the WSOPC Council Bluffs took fasten upon Feb. 12-25 and included 18 events. The winners of the spare events are:
Event 1: Jeff BanghartEvent 2: Mike SinnottEvent 3: Matthew McCartneyEvent 4: Larry NicholsEvent 5: Toni HaggardEvent 6: Drazen IlichEvent 7: Jeff WiemersEvent 8: Thomas CulbersonEvent 9: Bill ShortEvent 10: Lee PatitzEvent 11: Kelly Vande MheenEvent 12: David GrandstaffEvent 13: Brian ScobeeEvent 14: William BurdickEvent 15: Joe RechtfertigEvent 16: Jesse HaleEvent 17: Charles Casavant IIIEvent 18: John Thelen
The next regular payments of the 2008-2009 WSOPC will take dwelling place at Caesars Atlantic City March 4-14.