Then in Event #7: $600 HORSE, It was three-time WSOP bracelet winner and now five-time Circuit ring winner Frankie O'Dell taking the title and its $11,083 first prize. Event #5: $600 Omaha 8 or Better saw west coast mixed game star Shirley Rosario topping a final table that included WSOP Omaha 8 or better bracelet holder Calen McNeil before knocking off Circuit ring holder Scott Fitzhugh heads up to claim $14,524 and her first Circuit ring. The mixed game events were also well represented, with big names creating some of the toughest fields all week.

The incredible results kept on coming, as at the end of Event #3: $600 No-Limit Hold‘em, it was 2022 WSOP Housewarming bracelet winner Henrieto Acain besting a 209-player field to add $25,938 and a Circuit ring to his WSOP jewelry collection. That number was easily crushed, as 1,530 entries created a prize pool of more than double the guarantee, with Gregory Simon taking home $77,159 for first place from the final prize pool of $504,900. Next up on the schedule was the $400 Opener which came with a $250,000 guarantee.

The 13-ring series kicked off with a bang as the man known as “the voice of the WSOP”, Lon McEachern won his first-ever WSOP jewelry, earning the champions ring plus a career-best $15,008 first prize in the $400 Seniors event.

Thunder Valley is known as one of the premier venues on the World Series of Poker Circuit, consistently drawing huge and star-studded fields eager for their chance at WSOP glory and this week has been no different thus far. Lincoln, California (January 18, 2023) What’s been an amazing start to the WSOP Circuit stop at Thunder Valley full of huge fields, smashed guarantees, and marquee ring winners reaches its crescendo this weekend with the start of the $1,700 Main Event on Friday.

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