Taylor Hart Wins Third Ring & $280,770 in WSOP Circuit Turning Stone Main Event
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The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) festival hosted by Turning Stone Resort Casino ended on Monday and saw plenty of big winners throughout the New York series.
The WSOP Circuit Turning Stone kicked off on March 13, with 18 ring events plus side events and satellites, all spread over twelve days of poker. The ring events awarded $5,537,505 in prizes as well as the gold rings.
The last few circuit stops had a massive impact on the all-time WSOPC ring leaderboard with four of the top five players earning rings.
The WSOP Circuit Turning Stone broke this trend, giving those at the top a moment to regroup and those players a little further down the leaderboard a chance to pluck a few laurel leaves for their own crowns.
Rings Won at Turning Stone
There were plenty of first-time ring winners, including Jim Vandermark who, after 25 years of playing poker, won his first ring in the Opener.
Brian Altman won his fifth ring towards the end of the festival, taking down Event #17: $2,200 High Roller.
The event attracted a reasonable turnout of 131 entries, putting $262,000 in the pot with Altman taking home $73,717 for first place.
Only 116 other players have ever won five or more WSOPC rings. Altman joins them along with Ryan Eriquezzo who won his fifth ring in Event #11: $400 No-Limit Hold'em.
The winners of the Black Chip Bounty, Soukha Kachittavong; the Mini Main Event, Jacob Hamed; and the main Main Event, Taylor Hart all collected their third rings at the WSOP Circuit Turning Stone.
With these three, there are now 397 players who have won at least 3 rings.
Taylor Hart Wins The Main Event
Taylor Hart won the Main Event, beating a field of 1,183 entries to earn his third WSOPC ring.
These entries put $1,792,245 in the prize pool and $280,770 up top. Hart had to beat Michael Aman heads up and out last a final table that included Ukrainian pro Yuriy Kudrynskyy.
"Anxiety and regulating your emotions is a tough part of the game," Hart told WSOP, describing his final table experience. "I'm an emotional guy. Even if my actions don't express how I'm feeling necessarily because of the context of the moment, I'm always feeling what I really feel. That's pretty important to me."
The final hand was a brutal cooler.
A jack on the turn gave Aman a set with pocket jacks and filled Hart's Broadway straight with A♠10♣ in the hole. Both players moved in with stacks close enough in size that the dealer had to count them up before they could announce that Hart had won the tournament.
Aman took home $187,172 for second place.
WSOP Circuit Turning Stone Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Hart | Happy Valley, OR | $280,770 |
| 2 | Michael Aman | Wilton, NY | $187,172 |
| 3 | Charles Goelz | Boston, MA | $132,068 |
| 4 | Thomas Couture | Greene, ME | $94,583 |
| 5 | Anthony Runza | Highland, NY | $68,767 |
| 6 | Allen Krouth | Rochester, NY | $50,769 |
| 7 | Yuriy Kudrynskyy | Chernivtsi, Ukraine | $38,069 |
| 8 | Joseph Molitor | Secane, PA | $29,000 |
Upcoming Circuit Stops
We're in the final stretch before the 2024/2025 season of the WSOP Circuit switches over to the 2025/2026 season.
There are just six more events left to round out the current season. Already underway, the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas will play on until March 31. The next festival to kick off after the Horseshoe event is the WSOP Circuit Grand Victoria, starting on April 3.
Further ahead, there will be festivals hosted by the Horseshoe Casino Tunica in Mississippi, Harrah's Cherokee in North Carolina, The Commerce in California, and at Caesars Southern Indiana.
WSOP Circuit Turning Stone Full Series Results
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