WSOP-C River Rock Casino and PlayNow.com Over $2.5 Million in Prize Pools – Results for Events 4 Through 6

In a joint effort with PlayNow.com and the River Rock Casino Resort, the inaugural Canadian World Series of Poker-Circuit stop has certainly been making the waves that the recent West Coast earthquake did not; while Events 1 through 3 brought some sweet results, the aftershocks in Events 4 to 7 have been even shaking things up even more.  So far after 7 events, more than $2,522,000 in prize pools have been generated.  There are still 4 more events to be played as well, including #11 and #12 on PlayNow.com, which will award the first ever WSOP-C ring winners to be determined exclusively on the virtual felts!

British Columbia players swept up the first 3 gold rings, however, Event #4’s prize and biggest pay-out of the series (before the Main Event wraps up) will be heading home with Ontario’s Matthew O’Brien; while it wasn’t Matthew’s largest win to date, the victory was sure to taste pretty sweet as O’Brien narrowly missed his ring earlier in 2012 at a USA WSOP-C Main Event where he finished 3^rd.  This score takes the young Canadian up over $312,000 in career tournaments. Besides Matthew, 35 other players made some dough as follows:

Event 4 – #1,125 No Limit Hold’em

Total Entries:  354   Total Prize Pool:  $354,000

It looks like Chilliwack’s Dean Engemoen made his first “official” major tournament cash count in a big way by taking down Event 5; it’s a classy nice touch to put a Champion’s photo up beside your first flag on your profile page! Here are the complete results:

Event 5 – $580 No Limit Hold’em

Total Entries:  347    Total Prize Pool:  $173,500

Victor Chan’s Hendon Mob profile page was also bare before the WSOP came to Vancouver; not much of a problem anymore, as he shipped Event #6 for $25,000 and some highly sought after bragging rights. Here are the 44 contenders who hit the cash cage before him:

Event 6 – $365 No Limit Hold ‘em Turbo

Total Entries:  381       Total Prize Pool:  $114,300

Day 2 of Event #7 is currently underway at the time of writing, though the money bubble has popped and the field has dropped from 1032 original entries to less than 100 that are still in contention for the River Rock Casino Resort’s WSOP-Circuit Vancouver Main Event top prize of more than $286,000. 

We’ll take a look at some of the Day 3 contenders in our next recap; see you soon!