Tuesday, August 22, 2023 9:11 PM Local Time
From Second To First; Joshua Brower Wins First WSOPC Ring
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The inaugural WSOPC $400 Mystery Bounty at Tulsa saw an end to the tournament after over 14 hours of play. The format of the tournament saw the two biggest bounties sit at $10,000 and $5,000 respectively.
It was a pair of entertaining characters who pulled them both as David Soskin pulled the $10,000 bounty and WSOPC winner Joey Gargiulo pulled the $5,000, both players making the final table of the tournament.
A few days prior, Joshua Brower finished runner up to Timothy “T.J.” Cunningham in the $400 multi flight tournament, falling short of securing his first ring. Tonight he flipped the script as he came out on top, besting Gargiulo heads up for his first WSOPC ring.
“What a thrill,” Brower said, beaming with a mix of excitement and pride “especially after the sting a couple of days ago, I am just pumped.” Brower pulled a total of four bounties, to make $1,400 on top of his already $9,402 score.
“I started playing poker in the late 90s, started with Seven-Card stud,” Brower continued and went on to say that he is originally from upstate New York. “The past few years I have lived in Tulsa, and during the pandemic I began to study GTO. I’ve been playing the circuit for about a year, and the players in this region are great, I’m learning a lot.”
Brower now wins the seat to the WSOPC 2024 tournament of champions, an event he is incredibly excited to go play.