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Sunday, April 28, 2019 9:52 PM Local Time
Daniel "Duma" Lowery, of Peter Pender, Arkansas, has earned the eighth Circuit ring of his career after dominating the final table in Event #2 at Circuit Horseshoe Tunica, $400 No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Flight Re-Entry. Lowery's latest big Circuit result is worth $52,378 and likely secures a seat for him into this fall's Casino Championship in Cherokee, NC.
Lowery made quick work of the final table, eliminating most of the other players on his way to the ring. Lowery had roughly a 3:1 edge over his final opponent, Chicago's Stanislav Angelov, who tried to make a major move on Lowery on the turn of a hand with the board already showing . Angelov, who Lowery said turned up the aggression once the final was trimmed to four players, moved all in, but Lowery was holding for top two pair. Lowery called with ease, Angelov was on a bluff with and was already drawing dead, and a meaningless officially wrapped up Lowery's eighth career Circuit triumph.
Angelov collected $32,540 for his runner-up effort. Hoover, Alabama's Edward Allen finished third, earning $24,016.
The win moves Lowery into a tie for eighth on the career Circuit wins list, along with Kyle Cartright and Chris Reslock. Even more impressive is that Lowery is not a full-time poker pro, as he owns and operates a sawmill in the Fort Smith region of Arkansas. This was only his third significant stop of the 2018-19 Circuit season, and at his last series, in Tulsa [OK] a little over a month ago, he logged his seventh win and a third-place finish.
Lowery has steamrolled a couple of prior Circuit events, and his performance here was impressive as well. He finished Day 1 with one of the top stacks, had moved into the lead by the time the final table formed, and never relinquished that lead on the way to the win. "I felt like I was in total control all of Day 1," he said, "and today, too. I just felt like I was wire-to-wire in control."
Lowery has some sawmill-investment plans for at least part of his winnings. "I'm always buying equipment. I've seen a couple of things right around $30K that I wanted. I'll be getting one or the other of them. And I'll use some of it for the first part of the summer, meaning a trip to the WSOP." It'll be his first Las Vegas WSOP trip in five years.
"As you can see in my winner photo" (above), "I have this unclean face. I told [people] Thursday that I was going to pull a 'Neil Scott' -- referring to the California-based Circuit regular -- and not shave until I won another ring. That was Thursday..." meaning that he's met the tongue-in-cheek challenge after just three days.
Angelov collected $32,540 for his runner-up effort. Hoover, Alabama's Edward Allen finished third, earning $24,016.
Sunday, April 28, 2019 4:09 PM Local Time
A very fast-paced Day 2 in Event #2 has seen action move to a final table after a double knockout while 11-handed. Daniel "Duma" Lowery, of Peter Pender, Arkansas, searches for his eighth career Circuit win as he leads the final nine, listed by seat as follows:
Seat 1: Danny Griffith - 850,000
Seat 2: Charlie Dawson - 1,640,000
Seat 3: Michael Monaghan - 1,400,000
Seat 4: Daniel Lowery - 2,480,000
Seat 5: LaRue Linson - 615,000
Seat 6: Jesse Jones - 2,000,000
Seat 7: Edward Allen - 1,230,000
Seat 8: Stanislav Angelou - 2,000,000
Seat 9: Benjamin Thomas - 1,200,000
Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:37 PM Local Time
Play has ended for the night in today's third and final starting flight of Event #2. Of 495 paid entries, 35 players survived to bag chips, with this flight led by Clarksville, TN's Carl Masters. Masters, a two time Circuit ring winner who's fresh off a third-place finish in Event #1, finished the night with 714,000 in chips, narrowly ahead of Michael Monaghan's 706,000 total.
Masters and Monaghan will lead 60 players who will return on Sunday at noon. Complete chip counts for all returning players are now available under the "Reports" tab above.
Saturday, April 27, 2019 6:49 PM Local Time
The late-registration period has ended for today's C starting flight. This flights drew 495 entrants, making the total field for Event #2 complete at 894 entrants, and a prizepool of $295,020, easily topping the pre-event guarantee.
54 players from this flight will either cash tonight or move on to tomorrow's Day 2. Everyone who makes this flight's top 54 will be guaranteed a $627 payday. Since some players may cash more than once and the total number of Day 2 players won't be known until after this flight's play ends for the night, the payouts for tomorrow's Day 2 survivors cannot yet be calculated.
Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:52 AM Local Time
Play begins shortly in starting flight C of Event #2: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Flight Re-Entry ($200K Guaranteed). 399 combined entries were logged in yesterday's A and B flights, and a big turnout is expected today.
Event #2 features the following:
- Three starting flights (two on Friday, one on Saturday)
- 30-minute levels through Level 22; 45-minute levels thereafter
- 15,000 in starting chips
- Re-entry event
- Each flight plays 20 levels or down to 5% of the field, whichever comes first; survivors move on to Sunday's Day 2
Participation and prizepool info for this flight will be available later today. The structure sheet for this event is available at the beginning of this thread.
Saturday, April 27, 2019 4:43 AM Local Time
Chip counts for all 25 surviving players of Friday's A and B starting flights are now available under the "Reports" tab above.
Saturday, April 27, 2019 4:38 AM Local Time
Flight B is now complete at Horseshoe Tunica, with just 11 players remaining from 196 total entries in the flight. Springfield, MO's Jesse Jones finished the night with 628,000 in chips, which led Flight B and also topped all 25 surviving players from both flights combined, with Saturday's C flight still to come.
Friday, April 26, 2019 11:35 PM Local Time
Twenty levels of play are in he books and starting flight A in Event #2 is complete. Memphis, TN's Sokchheka "Chico" Pho leads the 14 players who remain from the flight's 203 total entries. Pho bagged 593,000 in chips.
Friday, April 26, 2019 11:01 PM Local Time
With the start of Level 13, the late-registration period for today's Flight B has closed as well. This flight generated 196 entries, bringing the day's two-flight total to 399. Another 21 players from this flight will eventually cash, with a small number earning a min-cash (or slightly more) later tonight.
Friday, April 26, 2019 7:25 PM Local Time
Registration has closed for the first of today's two starting flights in Event #2. This flight drew 206 entries and is currently working its way toward its 21-player money bubble. 27 players remain in this flight, and each of the 21 who make the money will be assured at least a $742 payday.
Friday, April 26, 2019 3:53 PM Local Time
Today's second starting flight in Event #2: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Flight Re-Entry ($200K Guaranteed) begins momentarily, at 4 pm. As noted below, this event offers the following:
- Three starting flights (two on Friday, one on Saturday)
- 30-minute levels through Level 22; 45-minute levels thereafter
- 15,000 in starting chips
- Re-entry event
- Each flight plays 20 levels or down to 5% of the field, whichever comes first; survivors move on to Sunday's Day 2
Participation and prizepool info for this flight will be available tonight. The late-registration window for today's Flight A remains open as well.
Friday, April 26, 2019 5:21 AM Local Time
11 am brings the start of the first of three Day 1 flights in Event #2: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Flight Re-Entry ($200K Guaranteed). The "A" flight is the first of three starting flights in this event, with Flight B starting this afternoon at 4 pm, and Flight C expected to fill the venue when it begins at 11 am on Saturday.
Event #2 features the following:
- Three starting flights (two on Friday, one on Saturday)
- 30-minute levels through Level 22; 45-minute levels thereafter
- 15,000 in starting chips
- Re-entry event
- Each flight plays 20 levels or down to 5% of the field, whichever comes first; survivors move on to Sunday's Day 2
Participation and prizepool info for this flight will be available later today.
Friday, April 26, 2019 5:16 AM Local Time