The US poker player Mike Cordell emerged victorious from the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore Main Event. Cordell managed to outlast a players field of a total of 449 entrants to take home the event’s gold ring, the third one in his career so far, as well as a guaranteed prize pool cash portion estimated to $148,141. In addition, the player automatically got a seat at the season-ending Global Casino Championship that is scheduled to be held in August 2017.
This is the third time when the 46-year-old professional poker player wins a WSOP Circuit event. Although the $148,141 prize does not beat his best live cash of $346,088, it adds up to his total live earnings of $780,814.
The player, who was first introduced to poker at early age, started playing in real brick-and-mortar casinos when he came of age. Back in 2002, he started joining some poker tournaments, too. A few years later, he has a number of satellite wins into several significant tournament results, including a $50,000 score at the beginning of 2005.
As mentioned above, the player has won two other WSOP events on previous occasions. This time, it was relatively easy for him to win the event. The first obstacle he needed to overcome on his way to the first position was surviving Day 1 of the $1,675 buy-in WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore Main Event. Although his chip stack amounted only to 43,500 in chips, he got to Day 2, and then to Day 3 as well.
Unfortunately for Cordell, he was not the one who had control of Day 2 action, but he managed to get to the final table of the event although Maurice Hawkins got the lead for most of Day 2. At the time when the final table of nine was formed, Cordell had twice as many chips as Hawkins, who left on the seventh position a bit later. The rest of the players got eliminated one by one, with Cordell expanding his chip stack over the six-handed play.
Then, at the time of the three-handed play Cordell was left with Alex Queen and Jeremy Stein, with them two fiercely fighting to avoid leaving at the third position. After Stein left the game, it was not had for Cordell to fight back to the competition of Alex Queen, sealing the victory and taking down the Main Event of WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimor.
With Mike Cordell on the first place with a prize of $148,171, it is Alex Queen who occupied the runner-up position, taking home a total of $91,562. Jeremy Stein took the third position in the ranking, scooping a guaranteed prize pool portion of $66,905.
Robert Garrett remained on the fourth place, followed by Vanessa Truong on the fifth. Joshua Vizcarra was eliminated on sixth place, while Maurice Hawkins ranked seventh. The ones who completed the final table ranking were Richard Smith and Ryan Tamanini, who finished on the eighth and ninth position, respectively.
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Harry Evans
