The next player to turn $400 into a huge payout was the winner of Event #3, Alden Palmer. An incredible 2,616 entries came out for that one, building a prize pool of $863,280, with Timothy Russ earning a huge six-figure score of $116,971.
Next up was the massive $400 multi-flight event (which came with a $200,000 guarantee). A total of 647 players turned out for that event, creating a $213,510 prize pool. That comes with a $500,000 guarantee, but if the week’s trend continues, some new adjectives may need to be created.įor example, the series’ opening event, the $400 Double Stack, came with a $25,000 guarantee, but when the smoke cleared, champion Stephen Goodemote had taken home $39,688 alone. Some of the largest fields of the WSOP Circuit season have turned out at New York’s premier poker venue with anywhere from four to eight times the guarantee being reached in each of the side events leading up to the $1,700 Main Event which begins Thursday. Pick your favorite adjective to describe how a prize pool is surpassed, then add all the others too because that’s what’s happening to them so far as the WSOP Circuit series has returned to Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Verona, New York (22 March, 2023) - Smashed. The Turning Stone Casino has attracted massive fields throughout the first half of the Circuit stop.
