Sam Renshaw eyes first gold ring from the WSOP Circuit, leads 18 hopefuls into final day of $1,125 No-Limit Hold’em
Bicycle Casino in the Los Angeles area is currently the arena for WSOP Circuit poker action. The popular series arrived at the gambling venue earlier this week for its penultimate stop of this year.
Several gold ring tournaments on the schedule of the stop are already in the books and one more such tournament is just a single day away from crowning its champion.
The $1,125 No-Limit Hold’em kicked off Friday at the host casino. The tournament attracted 159 entrants for a prize pool of $159,000. The money would be distributed into payouts for the top 18 finishers, min-cashes starting from $2,130.
Day 1 of the tournament was packed with action, and it will be quite similar on Day 2 as all remaining players are into the money and will be striving to go as high in the payouts chart as possible. By the end of Level 16 of the tournament, there were 19 players left at the table. The remaining survivors decided to keep playing until there were just 18 of them and they were all in the money. Two hands into Level 17 the unlucky bubble boy busted to put an end to Day 1 action.
Who’s in the Hunt?
Of the 18 hopefuls, it was Sam Renshaw who bagged the largest stack last night. The player collected 460,000 in chips for a considerable lead over the rest of the pack. Renshaw is coming fresh off a third-place finish in a $600 buy-in Wynn Signature Series event. Early in November, the player finished 18th in the WSOP Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe Main Event. Renshaw is vying for his first gold ring from the series.
Massoud Eskandari with 334,000 and Adam Swan with 322,000 rounded out the top three chip stacks. Notables still in the hunt for the gold ring and the first-place prize include Nick Phoenix, Alan Myerson, Brett Apter, Brett Murray, and Adam Hendrix.
All 18 players will return to the host casino today at 1 pm local time. They will play down until a champion is crowned. As mentioned earlier, each of the remaining hopefuls is guaranteed a minimum cash of $2,130. Each of the nine final tablists will leave with no less than $3,825. And the winner will be awarded $42,940 in prize money and the accompanying gold ring.
The $1,125 No-Limit Hold’em is the ninth event on the schedule of the WSOP Circuit Bicycle Casino stop. Next up is the $1,700 Main Event. The tournament starts on Sunday with the first of two starting flights and will run through December 12.
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