Family Man Ed Miller Lays Claim to First WSOP Circuit Gold Ring
While PokerNews is here offering live updates from the $1,700 Main Event, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about the full schedule of side events that have been playing out over the past week at the World Series of Poker Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe.
The series kicked off with Event #1: $400 NLH Double Stack, a tournament that drew 237 runners and offered up a $78,210 prize pool. That was paid out to the top 36 players including Steve Foutty (11th - $1,263), Bob Smith (19th - $780), David Turner (27th - $633), and Shawn Van Asdale (34th - $555).
In the end, it was 56-year-old realtor Ed Miller from Grantie Bay, California besting Daniel Hughers in heads-up play to win the title, $18,369 top prize, and his first gold ring.
“I don’t play a whole lot of ring events so it’s pretty cool,” Miller said after the win. “I only come up here and down to Thunder Valley. I’ve been married for 30 years this year, two awesome kids and I’m really blessed with an awesome family. Poker’s just for fun.”
He added: “I do zero training. I read people for a living – I’ve been in sales my whole life. So, reading people and getting lucky doesn’t hurt.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Miller | Granite Bay, California | $18,369 |
| 2 | Daniel Hughes | Fair Oaks, California | $11,349 |
| 3 | Jed Hoffman | Reno, Nevada | $8,061 |
| 4 | Kenneth Olsen | Gardnerville, Nevada | $5,833 |
| 5 | Paul Rodgers | Morgan Hill, California | $4,302 |
| 6 | Jarod Minghini | South Lake Tahoe, California | $3,234 |
| 7 | Clinton Baskin | Stockton, California | $2,480 |
| 8 | James Hayne | San Jose, California | $1,940 |
| 9 | Scott Gould | Redding, California | $1,549 |