Zachary Schneider Wins 2018 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond Main Event

Zachary Schneider has won the 2018 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Hammond $1,700 no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a field of 1,094 total entries to win his first WSOPC gold ring and the top prize of $302,492.

“I feel blessed,” Schneider told WSOP reporters after coming out on top. “I ran really well today. I didn’t really have any hurdles to get over. Things just kind of flowed naturally. It came to me today.”

The 25-year-old poker pro from Harvard, Illinois came into the final day of this event in second chip position with 23 players remaining. He remained near the top of the leaderboard by the time the field had been narrowed to the final table, and quickly took the lead when he picked up the QQ and called an all-in from Royce Matheson, who had the 1010. Schneider’s queens held up to send Matheson to the rail in ninth place ($29,999).

Schneider won with pocket queens, and then later on at the final table he won against them. Young Hoon Kohgot all-in preflop with the QQ and Schneider called holding the AK. He spiked a king on the turn to win the pot, eliminating Koh in fifth place ($79,506).

Schneider began to roll from there, knocking out David McDermott in fourth place ($104,417) and Sami Shurbaji in third place ($138,825) to take just over a 2-to-1 lead into heads-up play against Nick Pupillo.

On the final hand the two players saw a flop of Q65 and Schneider checked. Pupillo bet 300,000, only to have Schneider check-raise to 800,000. Pupillo called and the 6 paired the board on the turn. Schneider check-called a bet of 875,000. The river was the K and Schneider checked again. Pupillo moved all-in for over 2 million in chips and Schneider made the call with the Q7 for queens and sixes. Pupillo had run a bluff with the 42 and was knocked out in second place, earning $186,823.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

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