Kurt Jewell wins the biggest WSOP Circuit Main Event to date

• Author: News
• Filed under: Uncategorized, WSOP
• Date: Oct 26,2010

WSOP Circuit Tournaments are really popular these days. WSOP Circuit players are even breaking some records. First the starting event at the Horseshoe Hammond made the record for most players in a Circuit Tournament, then right after the Main Event of the same Circuit event gets the honor to be the biggest Circuit Main Event to date.

There was 872 players in total playing the Main Event, so the prize pool climbed as high as to 1,24 million dollars.

Tournament was won by Kurt Jewell (in picture below), who began the final day in a chip lead and in the end no one couldn’t challenge his lead at any point.

The victory was worth 242,000 dollars, with an added @10k ticket to The Regional Championships and of course the WSOP ring.

Jewell’s interview after the victory can be found on the Card Player’s website.

Second place finisher Jared Kenworthy won $150k and the third was William Reynolds who got $110k.

Prize structure:

1.    Kurt Jewell - $242,909
2.    Jared Kenworthy - $150,104
3.    William Reynolds - $110,567
4.    Edwin Choi - $82,514
5.    Nick Jivkov - $62,384
6.    Will Souther - $47,772
7.    Bryan Devonshire - $37,047
8.    Daniel Cohen - $29,087
9.    Casey Hayes - $23,120
10.  Matthew Shepsky - $18,598

Source: PokerNews, Pokerista.net