In per week that noticed the one two gamers in entrance of him on the World Sequence of Poker Circuit all-time win checklist get a pair extra rings, Daniel Lowery stayed proper behind them by profitable the $250 Seniors occasion at Arduous Rock Tulsa for his seventeenth and $17,187.
A part of a area of 448 entries who created a prize pool of $89,600, the win places him solely behind Ari Engel’s 19 and Maurice Hawkins’ 18 rings. Each these gamers received rings within the final week — with Hawkins taking two inside the final 30 days — to make the battle for probably the most rings good consuming for poker followers.
Lowery, a sawmill proprietor from Arkansas, is all for it.
“When it was all the way down to 13 or 14 rings, Ari and I sort of challenged one another and it’s been enjoyable since then,” he advised the WSOP. “This previous week’s been nice as a result of Maurice received the one in Florida after which he miraculously wins that Fundamental in Baltimore. He simply crushes, so he raised the bar somewhat bit.
After which Josh Reichard is available in and wins quantity 16 and he’s additionally on the remaining desk with the chip lead in Hammond proper now. Ari received one other to place him forward with 19. So the race is on. It’s such an awesome week for the WSOP Circuit and I’m pleased to be part of it.”
Oh yeah, Reichard additionally stored himself in fourth on the leaderboard with a victory in a $400 H.O.R.S.E occasion at Horseshoe Hammond final week for his sixteenth ring. He’d go onto end third within the different occasion.
Lowery, as standard, had an enormous rail cheering him on and he says the help certainly does matter.
“In fact (it issues),” he stated. “It’s not simply motivating for me, but it surely’s very deflating for the opposite gamers once they lose a pot after which hear cheering for me on the opposite facet. It’s large, particularly on the WSOP within the thunderdome. You see these rails and it’s undoubtedly like a sporting occasion.”
Lowery, like Hawkins, has but to win a WSOP bracelet, however wish to be part of Engel with not less than one. He plans on placing in a ton of labor at this 12 months’s WSOP in Las Vegas.
“I plan to be there 5 of the seven weeks. A number of these bracelets, regardless that they’re diluted, I’d nonetheless prefer to have one. I’ve navigated large fields on the circuit and on the WSOP, so I really feel like I’m on the cusp. I really feel like I’m one of many higher ones to navigate a 3,000-player area. I like my probabilities on that, I’ve by no means misplaced focus once I’m in these fields.”
Arduous Rock Hammond 2025 $250 Seniors Occasion Remaining Desk Outcomes:
- Dan Lowery – $17,187
- Basil Sweis – $11,457
- Daven Flax – $7,953
- Bradley Fullington – $5,631
- Raymond Whitley – $4,068
- Johnathan Wofford – $3,000
- Douglas Vargas – $2,259
- Charles Collier – $1,738
- Marvin Donaldson – $1,366
- William Fisher – $1,099
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