Friday, November 6, 2015 9:02 PM Local Time
Woody Moore Adds a Tahoe Ring to His Collection
Event #8
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $500 (+$80)
Total Entries: 226
Prize Pool: $113,000
Woody Moore defeats Alex Masek heads up to earn his third gold ring.
Stateline, Nev. (November 6, 2015) -- Harveys Lake Tahoe has just seen one of the most decorated final tables in the history of the Circuit play out. The Event #8 - $580 No-Limit Hold'em final table was host to three gold ring winners with a combined 14 gold rings. Most of those rings belonged to eight-time gold ring winner, Alex Masek. Masek holds the record for most career gold rings and was looking to extend his record to nine. He would end up being denied a ninth gold ring at the hands of Charles "Woody" Moore.
Moore came to the final table with the chip lead, and although he lost it once, managed to get it back and then beat Masek heads up to win his third career WSOP Circuit gold ring.
"Without a doubt, Alex is one of my favorites of all-time. He has won eight rings. Beside that he is just such a solid player," said Moore about his heads up opponent.
Moore has the bragging rights of beating one of the toughest final tables of the Circuit season. Not only was Masek one of his final table opponents, but arguably the hottest player on the Circuit over the past year, Scott Stewart, was also at the final table. Stewart has earned four WSOP Circuit gold rings in the past 12 months, including one previously in this series. Stewart ended up busting in 7th place.
Moore earned 50 Casino Championship points for his victory which brings hist total to 82.5 on the season. That is good enough for him to crack the top 10 on the leaderboard. The top 50 players earn an at-large bid to the 2016 Global Casino Championship. It is one Moore's goals to reach Global Casino Championship (previously known as the National Championship) for the sixth consecutive year. He earned an automatic bid to the National Championship last year by winning the Casino Championship title at Horseshoe S. Indiana.
Moore has a full schedule of Circuit events for the remainder of 2015. He plans to play the upcoming Planet Hollywood series in Las Vegas and the Bike series in L.A. to try accumulate more points and lock up his seat into the 2016 Global Casino Championship. As mentioned before, he is currently at 82.5 points. Recent history has shown that a minimum 130-150 points are needed to earn an at-large bid to the end of the season championship.
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Event #8 was the eighth of 12 gold ring events on the WSOP Circuit
schedule at Harveys Lake Tahoe. The $580 No-Limit Hold’em tournament
attracted 226 players generating a $113,000 prize pool. The top 24
players were paid.
Day 1 began Thursday at 11 a.m. and lasted 21 levels. Day 2
began Friday at 2 p.m. with eight players remaining. The tournament
concluded at about 6:30 p.m.near the end of Level 26.
Final table results:
1st: Woody Moore - $28,252 + Circuit gold ring
2nd: Alex Masek - $17,461
3rd: Ray Marchi - $12,708
4th: Doug Englekirk - $9,398
5th: Glenn Miller - $7,059
6th: David Forster - $5,384
7th: Scott Stewart - $4,170
8th: Bob Donahue - $3,277
9th: David Triggs - $2,614
Complete results are available under the “Results” tab above.