WSOPC Event #15: $1,700 MAIN EVENT

Event #6
Pot-Limit Omaha (1 Re-Entry)
Buy-In: $300 (+$65)
Total Entries: 247
Prize Pool: $74,100

Mike Leah Wins Fourth Circuit Ring in Event #6

Cherokee, North Carolina (August 9, 2016) – Mike Leah is certainly no stranger to poker, having over $1,400,000 in World Series of Poker earnings alone. Prior to today, Leah had won three Circuit rings and one WSOP bracelet when he took down the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) $25,000 High Roller event in October of 2014 for AU$600,000. Leah’s last Circuit ring was won in Montreal, which happens to be the last Circuit stop he attended. So his win today meant he has now won rings at back to back Circuit stops.

Leah came to Cherokee predominantly to play the Global Casino Championship event that started today. But he decided to come to Cherokee a few days early to play some of the preliminary Circuit events.

“I busted the six max event yesterday and was really unsure if I was going to play this event because if I made it to Day 2 and went deep I would be missing the Global Casino Championship event, which is the reason I came here. But PLO is a lot of fun and it’s a nice change from no-limit hold em. And I know it goes really fast so I figured, worst case scenario, if I win it maybe I will miss half of the day in the Championship,” Leah said.

Interestingly, the final table did move at a fast pace, until heads up play between Leah and Terry Kim began. “We got heads up really quick, which meant that we were both really deep,” Leah explained.” The two players took turns swapping the chip lead back and forth for nearly two hours, and in the end Leah said he ended up “coolering Kim” the last hand to win the tournament.

The cooler that Leah is speaking of occurred when the flop came    . Kim had flopped two pair holding   , and Leah had flopped a set of twos. Kim called a check raise from Leah on the flop, but when the turn gave Kim additional flush outs, the two got it all in, and Leah held.

Leah will now head right to the registration cage to buy into the Casino Championship event. “Had I lost, I might have gone for dinner. But being that I won, I am feeling good, and going to go jump right in,” Leah concludes.

Full results from this event are available in the Results tab above.

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Kevin Davis (winner of Event #3) is now in the lead of Harrah's Cherokee Casino Champion race with 52.5 points. Davis won Event #3, and then cashed 13th in Event #6 ($365 PLO), propelling him to the top. John Bailey (winner Event #1), Austin Reilly (winner Event #2), Christopher Fisher (winner of Event #4), and Justin Warf (winner of Event #5) are now tied for 50 points each in the 2016/2017 Casino Champion race. The player who accumulates the most overall points in the twelve gold ring tournaments at Harrah’s Cherokee earns the title of Casino Champion and receives an automatic entry into the $1 million 2017 WSOP Global Casino Championship. The winner of the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event earns an automatic entry to the Global Casino Championship as well. All players who cash in ring events will receive points that apply to both the Casino Champion race and the season-long race to claim one of the 50 at-large Global Casino Championship bids awarded to the top point earners throughout the season. More information on the points system is available on WSOP.com.