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2024/25 WSOP Circuit - Harrah's Pompano Beach (Florida)

Thursday, February 06, 2025 to Saturday, February 08, 2025

WSOPC Event #9: $1,700 MAIN EVENT

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  • Buy-in: $1,700
  • Prizepool: $1,384,710
  • Entries: 914
  • Remaining: 0

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Monday, February 10, 2025 10:40 PM Local Time (about 3 days and 22 hours ago)
Art Peacock Art Peacock
Katerina Lukina

One of the iconic tournaments of any WSOPC stop is the $1,700 Main Event and this stop was no exception. The state of Florida’s best and brightest, as well as players from all over the country. 914 came out to generate a prize pool of $1,384,710, the majority of which would be divided up between the 101 players that came into Day 2. At the end of Day 2, it would be just seven players bagging up to return to play this morning and after just over seven hours of play it would be a new winner emerging. 

It would be a very happy birthday for the now 66-year old Art Peacock who now has something else to celebrate with his family as he conquered his first WSOPC ring. His win here today was against a lot of players that he plays with quite a bit and respects. 

“I know a lot of these guys, played with them for years,” he recalled as far as his experiences were with his opponents. “I loved being heads up with Darryll (Fish). He’s such a gentleman, very well liked by the community.”

Peacock had nothing but kind things to say about his experiences with the tournament. 

“Down here at Harrah’s at Pompano, the floor staff is great. Everyone that worked the tournament has been great,” he continued to sing his praises of the Casino. “I’ve definitely done well here. I won the state championship here last year. It’s fun to be back here again.” 

From 15 on down in this tournament, Peacock held the chip lead and never once relinquished it two days of play. With already a massive year last year and the $358,700 first place prize, he looks to carry the momentum of this new win into the new year. 

“This isn’t my biggest score,” he said, referencing his other first place of an even greater size “but for me this is my biggest accomplishment. Very tough field with a lot of pros and a lot of regulars on the circuit. I haven’t been a regular on that circuit as much, but I can tell you now that I’m going to be. I really enjoyed it so much. It’s my favorite win.” 

“I’m going to head up the Cherokee,” Peacock said as far as his next plans are in poker. With winning the seat to the 2025 Tournament of Champions as well, Peacock looks to be quite busy over the next year with poker tournaments. 

Peacock’s family was sweating him at home, while also waiting for him to celebrate his birthday with him. Now having locked up some new cash, the celebrations look to be plenty and fun for him and his family. With that the birthday boy took home his ring and headed on out of the tournament area to celebrate. 

Final Table Results

  • Art Peacock: $230,794
  • Darryll Fish: $153,860
  • Raminder Singh: $106,906
  • Ricardo Eyzaguirre: $75,583
  • Gary Susswein: $54,391
  • Bulat Khusainov: $39,851
  • Mike Chiappetta: $29,738

Day 3 action

Gary Susswein would come into the final table as the shortest stack that day, but find a couple of early doubles at the expense of Raminder Singh. The other short stack at the beginning of the day was not as lucky. 

Mike Chiapetta Mike Chiapetta
Katerina Lukina

2022 WSOPC Pompano Beach Champion Mike Chiappetta (7th-$29,738) would move in his final chips holding ace-king over Darryll Fish’s raise, only for Fish to have pocket aces and eliminate Chiappetta from the tournament. The former champion would shake everyone’s hand, wishing them luck and he took his leave from the tournament area, ensuring that a new champion would emerge on the Pompano Beach turf. 

After that Singh would fire a big bluff up against Art Peacock holding just seven-high no draw. This would see Peacock dip to below 10 million chips for the first time at the final table. Another double up from Susswein against Singh would see Singh fall just below Fish in the chip counts, but all three of the top counts remained close. 

Bulat Khusainov Bulat Khusainov
Katerina Lukina

Bulat Khusainov (6th-$39,851) would lose a key pot to Peacock to see his stack dip to below twenty big blinds, and he found himself in a key position to double up through Singh holding ace-jack against jack-ten. The board ran out with a ten on it to give a boost to Singh’s stack while the Russian player collected his best lifetime score. 

Gary Susswein Gary Susswein
Katerina Lukina

Susswein’s (5th-$54,391) good fortune of ladders came to an end after he got in his final one big blind holding ace-seven, getting four callers. Ricardo Eyzaguirre’s nine-seven would pair up, despite the kicker domination and Susswein finished the tournament. He would compliment his table mates quite a bit and exited with a smile on his face, multiplying his tournament live cashes on Hendon Mob by nearly 20. 

Ricardo Eyzaguirre Ricardo Eyzaguirre
Katerina Lukina

Just before the first break, Eyzaguirre (4th-$75,583) would flop top pair holding jack ten and Peacock would flop a gutshot with eight-nine. Eyzaguirre would turn top-two and both players would get their chips in with Eyzaguirre drawing to fill up against Peacock’s straight. The river would not improve him, leaving Peacock to take the massive pot while eliminating Eyzaguirre. 

Coming back from break would see the chips fall with Peacock holding the lead and Fish and Singh nearly tied in second place. The two West Palm Beach champions would duke it out in a couple of pots to see their spots on the leaderboard flip a couple of times. 

Raminder Singh Raminder Singh
Katerina Lukina

It would be a massive cooler that would see Singh (3rd-$106,906) depart next. He would flop a middle set of fours against Peacock who held ace-two for bottom pair. Peacock would check-raise the flop, with Singh just calling and both players would check the turn that gave Peacock aces and twos. The river paired the ace to give both players a full house, but Peacock’s was higher and the two players got their chips in, with Singh’s inferior full house falling to Peacock’s aces full. 

Next would be the heads up portion of the tournament where Peacock began with a 2.5:1 lead on Fish, who was looking for his second WSOPC Main Event title. It would seem like the match would be over quickly when Fish and Peacock both got their chips in with Fish holding ace-five and Peacock holding ace-ten. The river would bring Fish a wheel and he would narrow the gap between himself and Peacock in the match. 

Things would stay relatively level with this initial 2.5:1 lead that Peacock held over Fish for most of the match. A couple of times Fish would dip below, but by the time of the first break the stacks were relatively similar to where they were. Another key all in would see Fish jam holding king-nine against Peacock’s jacks. The king-high board went favorably to Fish and the stacks were once again where they were. 

It was after this point that Fish would narrow the gap significantly as the blinds went up. The 2.5:1 lead had been shrunk down to a 2:1, 1.5:1, and sometimes it would hover near even between the two of them. Eventually Peacock would push back ahead into the massive chip lead, but it would fall back to the same 2.5:1 level after Fish doubled holding ace-three all in preflop against Peacock’s queen-jack. 

Darryll Fish Darryll Fish
Katerina Lukina

It was only two hands after this double up that Fish (2nd-$153,860) would check-raise all in on a nine-high board holding jack-nine up against Peacock’s seven-six for second pair and a flush draw. Peacock would hit his flush on the turn while Fish still had outs to fill up. The river did not bring any of the outs and Peacock would take down the title, giving his friend and competitor Fish a hug for the West Palm Beach champion’s great run. 

Thank you for reading along with the Main Event updates here with Poker.Org . 

Monday, February 10, 2025 12:23 PM Local Time (about 4 days and 8 hours ago)
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Monday, February 10, 2025 11:00 AM Local Time (about 4 days and 9 hours ago)

Art PeacockKaterina Lukina

Lucky sevens are common symbolism in many places, in and out of casinos. In Event #9: $1,700 Main Event, not only were pocket sevens seemingly involved in every all in confrontation, but seven became the number of the tournament for seven very lucky players in the event. At noon today, those lucky seven will be able compete for a first place prize worth $230,794. 

Art Peacock (11,650,000) sits at the top of the counts right now, securing already his best every WSOP cash. Over his nearly 2 decades of cashing in poker tournaments, a ring has yet to make its way into Peacocks collection of trophies. With $1,445,224 in lifetime earnings, Peacock has amassed quite a lot of first place trophies in his career with his recent lifetime best score occurring last July for $358,700. Today this Peacock has some more feathers to flash on the felt. 

Darryll FishKaterina Lukina

Sitting behind him in the counts is 2015 WSOPC West Palm Beach Main Event champion Darryll Fish (7,155,000). Despite his name, his success on the felt would suggest that he is far from a fish. With $5,539,388 in lifetime earnings, and several big titles under his belt. A win here would give him his second Main Event ring in the state of Florida, further deepening his poker legacy. 

Raminder SinghKaterina Lukina

As far as poker legacy goes, far have one more diverse than Raminder Singh (6,930,000). With more recorded wins than anyone else on Hendon Mob, the recreational Floridian poker player has spent much time grinding tournaments all around the state. Trophies ranging from guitars to his own two WSOPC rings, Singh has accomplished much in the nearly 20 years of poker cashes. Like Fish, Singh is the WSOPC West Palm Beach Main Event champion but from the year of 2016, his other ring coming here at Pompano beach. Sitting in third today, he looks to carve his name a little bit deeper into Florida poker history. 

Ricardo Eyzaguirre

Two WSOPC rings also sit in the possession of Ricardo Eyzaguirre (6,150,000) who sits only just behind Singh in the chip counts. Eyzaguirre's poker titles come from all over as his two rings came from Cherokee (North Carolina), while his biggest score came at Borgata (Atlantic City). With nearly 11 years of poker tournament results, Eyzaguirre just as January recently had a score for $56,000. His strong start to the year has been followed up with as another massive final table is already in his possession, with his next sight on the ring. 

Bulat KhusainovKaterina Lukina

The next three players on the list are bunched together at the bottom, but each with just as much determination and focus on the ring. Next on the list of seven is Bhulat Khusainov (2,200,000) who sits as the lone Russian player at the table. His cashes mostly come from overseas, but as of lately been securing cashes all around the Florida tournament circuit. With his burgeoning resume stateside growing, Khusainov looks to be the first Russian WSOPC Main Event champion of the year. 

Mike ChiapettaKaterina Lukina

One player who knows all to well what this final table is like is 2022 WSOPC Pompano Beach Main Event champion Mike Chiappetta (1,385,000). He collected a career best score of $200,196 in that tournament and yesterday spent much of the day sitting next to his runner-up finisher James Calderaro. Since his win at this very casino's same event, he looks become a repeat champion here. Many deep runs since this win in events around the country have seen that Chiappetta is here to stay on the poker circuit for a while. 

Gary SussweinKaterina Lukina

Last but not least is Gary Susswein (1,090,000) who sits as the shortest stack remaining. With his guaranteed score here today, Susswein has already multiplied his lifetime earnings nearly ten times. Spending much of yesterday as the shortest stack, Susswein managed to navigate and ladder up multiple spots and now sits with a shot at the $270,794 awarded to first place, having never had a recorded score prior bigger than $725.

Day 3 Chip Counts

  1. Art Peacock - 11,650,000
  2. Darryll Fish - 7,155,000
  3. Raminder Singh - 6,930,000
  4. Ricardo Eyzaguirre - 6,150,000
  5. Bulat Khusainov - 2,200,000
  6. Mike Chiappetta - 1,385,000
  7. Gary Suisswein - 1,090,000

At 12:00, play will return to Level 28 with blinds at 60,000/120,000. Play will continue until a winner is crowned so be sure to stay tuned to Poker.Org see all of the exciting updates.