The World Series of Poker is now mostly over, and everyone is resting up for the live final table on ESPN in August.
If you are in Las Vegas, however, there will be no rest. We play poker every day of the year. The town used to slow down for a few weeks after the WSOP, but those days are long gone.
The gap between the end of the series and the delayed final table presented an opportunity to sneak in a WSOP Circuit event, and we are doing just that. Horseshoe Event Center will stay open through July 25, handing out 17 rings to fill the poker gap.
First WSOP ring and $77K
One of those rings now belongs to Justin Arnwine, an East Coast crusher who has started to spread his game around the rest of the country. His Hendon profile sports over 140 wins, but he says it's more than 230 if you include the unreported tournaments.
It has all been coming together for Arnwine for some time, and he made a deep run at his first bracelet in the early part of this summer's series, finishing just outside the final table of the $1,500 Six Max.
“It would be big, it would be big. It’s like one of the only things left," Arnwine told us about the bracelet at the time. It would have to wait, but he crossed another accolade off the list on Monday with his first WSOP ring in Las Vegas.
The $600 Monster Stack drew 953 entries, and Arnwine's haul was $77,485 after he outlasted 48 players on the final day.
We've talked to Justin several times throughout the years, and he's one of poker's most interesting up-and-coming players. He's also a new father, and the baby run good is pure.
“We think it’s psychological," Arnwhile told us this summer. He recently welcomed a new child with wife Caitlyn.
"If you want to be with your family really badly and if you want to be around the baby really badly, then you just take every spot. Because if you lose, it’s almost like a two-sided coin, because you’re like, ‘Okay, now I get to go home to my family.'"
Arnwine can now take his first Circuit ring back to the family, but there's more poker if he chooses to stick around. The $2,200 High Roller started on Monday, and the $1,700 Main Event will push off its first flight on Tuesday, where PokerOrg will be on the ground with live updates from the Main Event.
WSOP Circuit Las Vegas $600 Monster Stack final table results
- Justin Arnwine - $77,485
- Andrew Bevernitz - $51,710
- Abhishek Paul - $36,990
- Alexandru Vasilescu - $26,850
- Joseph Ritzie - $19,770
- Yuto Misaka - $14,770
- David Gelley - $11,200
- Ryan Gibbs - $8,630
- Eric Rivkin - $6,750
Lead image courtesy of Justin Arnwine.
