Former Rodeo Man Grant Hart Victorious in Event #6: $400 Pot-Limit Omaha
PokerNews is in town to live report the $1,700 Main Event here at the World Series of Poker Circuit at Horseshoe Tunica, but that is just one of the gold ring events that will have played out by the end of the series.
In Event #6: $400 Pot-Limit Omaha, 124 runners created a $40,920 prize pool. That was paid out to the top 19 players including Damjan Radanov (3rd - $4,743), John Holley (8th - $1,119), Heather Alcorn (14th - $699), Michael Lech (17th - $643), and Paul Mattioda (19th - $615).
In the end, former rodeo professional Grant Hart beat Tim Burt in heads-up play to win the title, a $11,209 top prize, and his first gold ring.
“This means everything. I retired from professional Rodeo in 2015 and I started playing professional poker in 2016. It’s been quite an education, but this has been my ultimate goal, to get a ring, and of course to get a bracelet,” Hart said after the win.
The 53-year-old continued: “A year ago, I got second in my first PLO tournament in Biloxi and when that happened, I decided I was going to be a PLO player. I started playing online relentlessly. I will play online three nights a week, PLO or Omaha Hi-Lo. It’s something I want to be good at, I traveled to Europe to play a lot of big PLO games. Texas hold’em is a game that everyone has already gotten good at, Omaha is a game that people have not discovered yet, so I want to be on top of that field.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grant Hart | Conway, Arkansas | $11,209 |
| 2 | Tim Burt | Diberville, Mississippi | $6,928 |
| 3 | Damjan Radanov | Memphis, Tennessee | $4,743 |
| 4 | Cory Wood | Murfreesboro, Tennessee | $3,342 |
| 5 | Shanmukha Meruga | Snellville, Georgia | $2,426 |
| 6 | Michael Reed | Terre Haute, Indiana | $1,816 |
| 7 | Robert Galbraith | Clarksville, Tennessee | $1,403 |
| 8 | John Holley | Destin, Florida | $1,119 |
| 9 | Matthew Clerk | De Soto, Illinois | $924 |