Samuel Oberlin Wins Southern Indiana WSOP Circuit Championship

The final table of the first World Series of Poker circuit event of the 2008-2009 season was contested on Tuesday at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino in Elizabeth, Indiana. This was the sixth time that a WSOP circuit event has been held in Southern Indiana, although this was the smallest turnout for the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event of those appearances, with just 84 players in the hunt. This meant that only the nine players at the final table would receive prize money. Here is a look at the chip counts when things got started at that final table:

Samuel Oberlin — 229,500
Jamin Stokes — 189,500
Len Ashby — 177,000
David Kopacz — 151,000
Jerry Martin — 139,500
Joey Couden — 128,000
Derek Whelan — 117,500
Dean Schultz — 114,000
Ray Lynn — 17,500

Ray Lynn was involved in the first major action when he tripled up with trip fives 15 minutes into action. However, that wasn’t able to prevent him from busting out in ninth place a short time later. The next to fall were Dean Schultz (eighth), Derek Whelan (seventh), Jamin Stokes (sixth), and Joey Couden (fifth), to bring the race down to four horses.

The chip leader when things began, Samuel Oberlin, was quiet early and continued to stay quiet during this stretch, as well, happy to let his opponents eliminate Len Ashby (fourth) and David Kopacz (third). This put Oberlin at a severe disadvantage heading into heads-up play, with his stack dwindling at 230,000 against the 1,030,000 that Jerry Martin held. Oberlin scored a quick double-up when his pocket queens held up against K-J a few hands into the heads-up match, and he evened things up to make his final push for the championship. He took the lead a few minutes later, and 15 minutes after that, he once again used pocket queens to strike a dagger at Martin and eliminated him in second place. Oberlin took home the first-place prize worth $143,064 and a WSOP Circuit championship ring.

Here were the final-table results:

1: Samuel Oberlin — $143,064
2: Jerry Martin — $79,480
3: David Kopacz — $43,714
4: Len Ashby — $31,792
5: Joey Couden — $27,818
6: Jamin Stokes — $23,844
7: Derek Whelan — $19,870
8: Dean Schultz — $15,896
9: Ray Lynn — $11,922

The next WSOP circuit event will take place at the Horseshoe Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, Oct. 24-Nov. 2. The dates for the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event have yet to be announced.

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