Event #2 of the 2008 Horseshoe Hammond World Series of Poker Circuit Events conlcuded on October 26th. This was a $500 buy-in No Limit Holdem tournament with a total of 516 entrants which created a prize pool worth $250,260.
Frederic Winter of La Grange, Illinois defeated Matthew Sekeres heads up to win the second event of the Horseshoe Hammond Circuit Events. Winter won a total of $55,159 for his first place finish. Mathew Sekeres of Burlington, Wisconsin received $34,928 for his runner up finish.
To view a complete listing of tournament results for Event #2 of the 2008 Horseshoe Hammond WSOP Circuit Events, click on the link below:
2008 Horseshoe Hammond WSOP Circuit – Event #2 Results
Controller Fred Winter Controls Final Table, Wins Event 2 in Bang-Bang Action
Action at the Last Table Takes Less than an Hour to Complete
Hammond, IN — Players at tonight’s final table weren’t at all hesitant to push in all their chips, and with the shorter stack almost always losing, it took less than an hour to get heads-up. At that point, Fred Winter had a small lead over Matthew Sekeres. They made a deal, played a requisite show hand which Winter won, and he was declared the winner of event number two of the WSOP Circuit tour at Horseshoe Casino Hammond, $500 no-limit hold’em. Victory was worth an official $55,159, along with a gold-and-diamond trophy ring and a $5,150 seat into the main event here.
Winter, 34, is from LaGrange, Illinois and works as a controller for a writing instrument company. His nickname is K-5 because, he explained, that hand always seems to dominate him. “If Matt had K-5 instead of K-4 on the last hand, he would have won,” he said with certainty.
Winter has been playing five years, teaching himself by watching TV, and until now had only two minor cashes this year at mega-stack tournaments at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He divides his poker time about 50-50 between cash games and tournaments, playing up to $5-$10 no-limit and $20-$40 limit. He said he doesn’t have any particular style of play — “any two cards” — but tries to play position and get his money’s worth when he plays a hand. Tonight he built up his chips early, came to the final table with close to the lead, and was never in trouble after that.
This event drew 516 poker enthusiasts who created a prize pool of $250,260. There were 21 left at the end of day one, and two hours after they returned the next day we were down to the final nine. With 10 left, Darrian Jackson moved in with Kh-7h and said “I have some out,” when Winter called and turned up pocket 8s. He didn’t have that many outs after an 8 flopped. Winter ended up with a full house and Jackson cashed 10th for $3,309. Nearly tied for the lead at that point were Leon Hamrick with 720,000 chips and Winter with 700,000…
To view the complete tournament report for Event #2 of the 2008 Horseshoe Hammond WSOP Circuit Events, click on the link below:
2008 Horseshoe Hammond WSOP Circuit – Event #2 Tournament Report
