“I planned to do this before I won this event. “I am going to give it a shot,” Riley said of his poker career. “I have the perfect life right now,” the 26-year-old physical education teacher and star of NBC’s “Ironman World Championship” reality show said after his win. Zarco finished as runner-up for $35,327, while Riley became the champ and took down the $57,139 top prize. Riley made the call with a pair of sevens and held as the appeared on the turn followed by the on the river. It was at that point that Zarco, a 27-year-old student from Madrid, Spain studying in the U.S., moved all in with on an flop. The two started nearly even in chips, but Riley pulled out to a 3-to-1 chip lead in the first hour of heads-up play. It was there that Roy Riley squared off against Javier Zarco in heads-up action. It took four long days for action to be completed, including a 15-hour final table. That tournament was actually Event #4: $355 No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry, which attracted 1,066 players, creating a prize pool of $310,206 and surpassed last year’s field of 843 entries. Louis action thus far, which included the largest tournament in Missouri history. That stop’s Main Event begins on Saturday, April 21, so we thought it’d be a good idea to recap the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s St. The 2011/2012 World Series of Poker Circuit is slowly winding down and will culminate in the National Championship this summer however, before then there are a few stops to be held, including the one at Harrah’s St.
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