Huy Nguyen takes WSOPC in Oklahoma

WSOPC by Dan on January 29, 2011

Huy Nguyen

A massive field of 808 players turned up to the Main Event of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Circuit event held in the Choctaw Resort Casino in Durant, Oklahoma last weekend.

The $1,500+ $100 buy-in for the event created a huge total pot that was to pay the 83 top finishers plus award WSOPC National Championship seats to the winner and the “Casino Champion” – the person accumulating the most points at any of the individual WSOP Circuit stops’ 10 official open “ring” events.

Winner, 25-year-old Nguyen reached his second final table at the Oklahoma tournament and his experience here helped him to take down the event and pocket the most solid of his four career WSOPC cashes. The heads up was played out against Traci Brown, who played the final day of the event on her birthday and received the blessing of the poker gods. She took home $143,462 for her second place – very good going after being in second-to-last place on the third day of play.

Sources have reported that the enormous field was dotted with well-known faces including Tom McEvoy, Ylon Schwartz, Berry Johnston and TJ Cloutier. The final table included WSOP bracelet-winner Robert Cheung, famed for his unbeatable trun in the 2007 WSOP $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event; and Drazen Ilich who has won two WOPC ring events and cashed on five occasions.

The Oklahoma stop of the WSOPC was the eighth event in the 2010-2011 calendar which began back in last August in the Horsehoe Council Bluffs Casino in Iowa. The next stop is underway from Thursday 27 January at the Harrah’s Casino in Tunica, Mississippi and will run until 15 February. The WSOPC consists of 17 events that culminate in the National Championship stop to be played from 27 to 29 May 2011.