Donovan Becomes First WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Ring Winner

The 2012-2013 World Series of Poker Circuit presented by Southern Comfort 100 Proof $1,675 Main Event is the culmination of more than a week's worth of tournaments here at Foxwoods in Connecticut.

The stop kicked off with a bang on Wednesday, March 27, with Event #1 $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry, which attracted 800 entries and created a prize pool of $240,560. Only 125 players survived the various starting flights, with 25-year-old Zachary Donovan holding the chip lead heading into Day 2. Donovan, who has nearly $1 million in online poker winnings, and who recently relocated to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, used that big stack not only to plow through the money bubble at 81 players, but also to navigate to the final table.

The event was scheduled to finish on Day 2, but an impromptu third day had to be added to the schedule. Six players advanced to Day 3, with Donovan holding 3,050,000 in chips, Sam Taylor with 2,134,000, and the other four each under a million. As one could expect, the big stacks prevailed with Donovan and Taylor advancing to a heads up battle that lasted about two hours. In what would be the last hand of the tournament, Taylor got all in with and was racing against the of Donovan. An ace on the flop looked good to Taylor, but when a four turned, it was all over.

Donovan is in today's field and looking to capture another ring here at Foxwoods.

WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Ring Event #1 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$300+$65	800	$240,560

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Zachary Donovan	Cabo San Lucas, Mexico	$48,112
2	Samuel Taylor	New York, NY	$29,661
3	Timothy Kelliher	North Dighton, MA	$21,867
4	Joshua Quint	Orono, ME	$16,310
5	Michael Nye	East Bridgewater, MA	$12,317
6	Joseph Ward	Revere, MA	$9,430
7	Jason McAvoy	N/A	$7,289
8	Jason Wilson	Waterbury, CT	$5,725
9	David Ray	Windsor Locks, CT	$4,547