Josh Turner has defeated Javier Zarco, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of $136,945 in a bumper field at the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,675 Main Event at the Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel in St Louis.
Josh Turner has gone wire-to-wire in the $1,675 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel in St Louis, Missouri.
It’s been an outstanding year for the local lad from St. Louis. This victory was his 11th cash of the season, his seventh final table, and his second gold ring. However, despite all the accolades, this marked his first deep run in a WSOPC Main Event, and the $136,945 is the largest score of his career.
415 entrants created a total prize pool of $622,500. It was a fairly inexperienced final table with only Jesse Watson having any significant form of note, after winning a ring earlier in the season when he beat 187 players in a six-handed No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) event for $15,428.
It’s not often that you see a Spaniard involved in the WSOPC, but Javier Zarco was a serious contender in this one. According to WSOP reports he pushed Turner all the way, and could easily have walked away from St. Louis wearing the gold ring.
“This is awesome. It’s hard to even talk,” Turner told the WSOP after his win, “I would need to win a {WSOP} bracelet to feel I accomplished something bigger than this. I would never want to win a gold ring anywhere else. For it to be the Main Event is even more important.”
Turner had 100% of his own action and promised to plough some of his winnings back into the economy by playing in some bigger buy-in events. As the main event victor he has also earned himself a seat into the WSOP National Championships $1m Free Roll.
WSOPC St Louis Final Table Results
1st. Josh Turner – $136,945
2nd. Javier Zarco – $84,629
3rd. David Lee – $61,839
4th. Jesse Watson – $45,916
5th. Zachary Campbell – 34,623
6th. John Longowa – £26,500
7th. Scott Vetter – $20,580
8th. Ben Beighle – $16,210
9th. Michael Rieck – $12,948
