Klint Griffin Wins WSOPC Ring After 20 Year Break From Playing Poker
A field of 395 entrants gathered together for the $1,700 Main Event at the World Series of Poker Circuit festival at the Horseshoe Tunica in Mississippi. The turnout made for a prize pool of $588,425, of which $127,307 was reserved for the first-place finisher. When the dealer pushed the final pot of the event, Klint Griffin was the man it was pushed to.
Griffin, a resident of Tennessee, collected his WSOPC Ring after a nearly 20-year hiatus from poker. Before 2023, Griffin had a single cash in 2005, from a period when he played poker—mostly cash games—for a living.
However, in fall of last year, Griffin made a return to poker. He cashed for a few thousand dollars each in a handful of WSOPC North Carolina events throughout August and December.
This time around in Tunica, he went all the way.
Day 3 Action
By the time the time play closed on Day 2 of the WSOPC Tunica Main Event the field of 395 had been whittled down to just six.
Griffin was the fourth biggest stack of the returning six on Day 3. However, soon after play started, he moved into the chip lead.
Drew Dunaway was the first to bust on Day 3. It was his birthday and his present was $22,160 for sixth place.
Griffin continued to collect chips as the remaining members of the field fell away one by one. Once he was down to heads up against Lucian Camargo Silveira, Griffin had four of every five chips in play.
It didn't take Griffin long to mop up what was left of Silveira's chips, earning him a $127k payday and sending Silveira to the rail with $78,678 for second place.
Griffin won't be taking another 20 years off, he told reporters after the dust had settled. "I'll play some more circuit events and maybe dabble going out [to the WSOP] in June," he said.
2024 WSOPC Tunica $1,700 Main Event Final Table Results
| Position | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Klint Griffin | Franklin,TN | $127,307 |
| 2 | Lucian Camargo Silveira | Porto Alegra,Brazil | $78,678 |
| 3 | Billy Dickerson | Covington, LA | $55,792 |
| 4 | Trace Henderson | Gulfport, MS | $40,272 |
| 5 | Phuong Nguyen | Southhaven, MS | $29,600 |
| 6 | Drew Dunaway | Bessemer, AL | $22,160 |
| 7 | Daniel Kusnerak | Newton, NC | $16,904 |
| 8 | Thomas Tackett | York, SC | $13,144 |
| 9 | Eric Sutton | Decherd, TN | $10,421 |
Image courtesy of the World Series of Poker, taken by photographer Rachel Winter.
