Carl Masters took down two WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica tournament in as many days, scooping two gold rings from the popular series
Carl Masters from Clarksville, Tennessee has been running hot the past few days as he managed to win not one but two gold rings in the ongoing WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica stop. Last night, the player bested the field of the $400 buy-in Monster Stack for his second piece of gold and $38,885 in prize money.
The event drew 561 entries from all over the place. The field created a prize pool of $185,130 and the top 63 finishers were treated to a share of the money. The tournament took place over two action-packed days.
The unofficial final table of the event was reached at some point yesterday. Each of the ten finalists were guaranteed a min-cash of $2,903, but the top prize and the accompanying gold ring was what they really wanted.
Masters was about mid-stacked at the time when there were just ten players left at the tables. He had 1.96 million in chips at that point. Trent Bennett was the player to lead the ten final tablists into the closing stage of the tournament with a stack of 3.415 million.
Things kept getting better for Masters over the course of the final table. The player said in his post-victory interview that he ran hot, played good, got good cards, and got lucky when he needed to.
Down to Heads-Up
When the field 561-strong field of the Monster Stack was finally whittled down to just the final two players, it was Masters and Faith Bazemore who had to square off for the title. Bazemore, an 80-year-old cash game expert, was a real challenge to Masters.
However, during the final stages of the game, Bazemore started playing in the dark, losing multiple big pots and thinning her chip stack. Masters said that Bazemore might have got tired and that was why she was playing the way she did in the end. The champion went on that it would have been a “much closer match,” if his final opponent did not get tired.
Bazemore ended up walking away with $24,047 as a consolation prize for her second-place finish after she could not hold up against Masters in a confrontation that saw the champion turn a winning [As][2h] hand for the title and the gold ring
As mentioned earlier, the Monster Stack win was Masters’ second big poker moment this week. The player topped the field of the $400 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha a few days ago for his first-ever gold ring from the series and $13,539 in prize money. Masters also cashed in the multiple starting flight No-Limit Hold’em early into the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica stop. The player finished 60th in that tournament, good for a cash of $1,758.
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