The Water Cooler: Poker News for Monday, November 21, 2011

by Deke Marston | Nov 21 2011

Two tournaments offered up some big money over the weekend in the US!

Lake Tahoe, NV
Michael Rosenbach earned his second World Series of Poker* Circuit Gold Ring in a week with his victory in the penultimate event at the Lake Tahoe stop on the circuit. He earned $26,796 of the $107,185 in the prize pool for his victory, bringing his winnings from the four events he entered to over $46,000. Rosenbach beat a field of 220 players to earn the victory, which pretty much locked him down as the "Best All-Around Player" on this circuit stop, giving him entry into the 1 million 2011-2012 WSOP Circuit National Championship, to be held in Las Vegas, next May.  

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At least two players from this tournament series will qualify for the WSOP Circuit National Championship, which is classified as a WSOP gold bracelet event.  The other automatic qualifier will be the winner of Lake Tahoe's Main Event championship. Here's the complete list of winners so far from this stop:

Event #1:  David Clark defeated 260 players and won $18,208
Event #2:  Josh Roberts defeated 521 players and won $32,300
Event #3:  Mark Bonsack defeated 85 players and won $7,484
Event #4:  Michael Rosenbach defeated 101 players and won $13,874
Event #5:  Daniel Aran defeated 188 players and won $13,874
Event #6:  Rudy Sisson defeated 221 players and won $15,741
Event #7:  Nick Long defeated 199 players and won $57,909
Event #8:  Alexandru Masek defeated 206 players and won $15,236
Event #9:  Troy Declue defeated 186 players and won $13,724
Event #10:  Michael Rosenbach defeated 221 players and won $26,796

All of the winners are from California, which isn't that odd considering Lake Tahoe's location near that state's border with Nevada. With the Championship wrapping up today, the Lake Tahoe WSOPC stop proves that, again, it is one of the best American tournament series for mid-level players looking to profit without huge buy-ins.

Jacksonville, FL
Speaking of circuit tours in America, WPT Jacksonville, held in the newly minted Jacksonville Poker Room wrapped up its second day with 42 players remaining, led by Vitor Coelho. At one point, Coelho had a stack of over a million chips but even with a dip below the seven-digit mark, he's still going into day 3 with 945,000 on his side, placing him at easy 340,000 ahead of his nearest competitor, Connor Drinan. Alex Venovsi, Darryll Fish and Sam Soverel round out the top five players.

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Only forty players will make the money in this WPT stop, meaning that the first two people eliminated today are doing to be very unhappy, indeed.

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