2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Potawatomi

$1,700 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Potawatomi

Final Results
Winner
Tsz Shing
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
$151,284
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,700
Prize Pool
$793,860
Entries
524
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000
Players Info - Day 1a
Entries
204
Players Left
32

Iowa Boxing Hall of Famer Darin Utley Captures Second Gold Ring

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante
Darin Utley
Darin Utley

PokerNews is in town to report the $1,700 Main Event here at the World Series of Poker Circuit at Milwaukee’s Potawatomi Hotel and Casino, but that is just one of the gold ring events that will have played out by the end of the series.

The stop kicked off with Event #1: $400 No-Limit Hold’em, a tournament that attracted 313 runners and offered up a $103,290 prize pool. That was paid out to the top 47 players including Cody Brinn (4th - $7,299), Bryan Skreens (7th - $3,133), Andy Rogowski (12th - $1,586), PokerNews’ Chad Holloway (24th - $840), Ken Baime (29th - $693), and David “The Maven” Gutfreund (35th - $623).

In the end, Darin Utley of Cedar Rapids, Iowa bested Canada’s Li Ding in heads-up play to win the title for $22,642 and his second ring. His first came a year before in January 2019 when he won the WSOPC Choctaw Durant Event #3: $400 NLH Multi-Flight for $50,557.

Utley, 49, is a former amateur boxer with eight golden glove titles on his résumé.

"I started [boxing] when I was eight years old and I did it for like 20 years or so; but I just got inducted into the Iowa Boxing Hall of Fame this summer,” Utley revealed. “I think you see a lot of ex-athletes that play poker because you’re used to being competitive your whole life.”

Final Table Results

PlacePlayerHometownPrize
1Darin UtleyCedar Rapids, Iowa$22,642
2Li DingMontreal, Canada$13,995
3Daniel BoutonMilwaukee, Wisconsin$10,021
4Cody BrinnAlgonquin, Illinois$7,299
5Kenneth DonarskiWillow Brook, Illinois$5,409
6Clinton ComptonBeaver Dam, Wisconsin$4,080
7Bryan SkreensWinfield, Illinois$3,133
8David WattersNeenah, Wisconsin$2,451
9Sergei GurtovHawthorn Woods, Illinois$1,953

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