Derek Schroeder tops a huge field of 1,370 entrants, in Event #4: $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry, after defeating Jonathan Moseley, in heads-up action, at the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica Mississippi.
The American poker community are loving their live tournament poker lately, and one tour that seems to be benefiting more than most is the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC).
After setting a few records in Choctaw, the tour has moved onto the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, and the field sizes are equally as impressive.
1,370 entrants participated in Event #4: $365 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Re-Entry, and it was a Missouri web developer who took home the biggest pot of gold.
When the action reached an unofficial final table of 10, Derek Schroeder was sitting behind the second shortest stack at the table. Back then, his only thoughts were about getting it in and doubling up – now he’s thinking of how to spend over 70-grand.
“$70,000 is awesome, but the best part is the ring. Anybody can have money. Not everyone can get one of these,” Schroeder told the WSOP after his win.
The runaway chip leader at that point was Justin Booth, and after half of the table was sent to the rail – including the former Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) champion, Quentin Crossley – Booth held 7m of the 13.7m chips in play.
All bets were off.
But poker can change as quickly as Clark Kent in a phone booth. Bish, bash, bosh – Booth had doubled both Schroeder and Moseley, and just like that he was exiting in fourth spot for $24,500.
“[Booth] is obviously a very, very great player. He had a huge chip lead, then he ran in to a couple unlucky spots,” Schroeder said of his adversary. “He might have been a little bit frustrated when he called my three-bet with queen-three. The flop came queen high and that’s when I had pocket kings. That’s what did him in.”
Schroeder took that momentum, and chip stack, walloped both Joshua Jones and Jonathan Mosley over the head with it, and at 2am in the morning he was promising the WSOP press office that he would be back working in his day job after a few hours’ kip.
WSOPC Horseshoe Tunica Final Table Results
1st. Derek Schroeder – $70,898
2nd. Jonathan Moseley – $43,977
3rd. Joshua Jones – $32,227
4th. Justin Booth – $24,500
5th. Ray Langston – $18,651
6th. Michael Williams – $14,364
7th. Quentin Crossley – $11,192
8th. John Shepherd – $8,820
9th. Justin Sharpe – $7,032
This was the fourth of 12-gold ring events on the Tunica stop. Scott Stewart, Chico Pho and Daniel Gilmer had been victorious ahead of Schroeder’s great victory.
