Sunday, December 3, 2017 4:05 AM Local Time
Bryan Carter Wins Turbo For Second Ring, Both in Cherokee
Local pro collects his second ring of the year year on home turf
This past April, Bryan Carter won his first WSOP Circuit ring at Harrah’s Cherokee. He didn’t have to wait long to get his second. Carter took down a $365 Turbo at this winter stop, outlasting a field of 414 entries to claim the top prize of $27,332.
Carter, 32, is a professional poker player from Black Mountain, North Carolina. His poker background coincides with the property’s transition from digital poker to live card games.
“Been playing here since Day 1,” he said. “Going on eight years now.” He’s certainly made good use of his home-field advantage.
Carter’s victory in April came in the opening re-entry event, where he topped a record-setting field of almost 3,200 entries. That event remains the largest tournament in North Carolina’s brief poker history, and it earned him a career-best six-figure score.
This victory wasn’t quite as massive as the first, but the second ring provides some good validation.
“I was short-stacked the whole way until we got six-handed,” Carter reflected on his day of poker. “Less than 15 big blinds all day.”
It’s hard for anyone to avoid being short-stacked in an event with 20-minute levels, really, and Carter had just 13 big blinds when he reached the final table.
As he said, though, he turned on the jets as the table continued to shrink, ending up heads-up against Rohit Kwatra for the ring. Carter beat him, ending the match in the wee hours of the morning to secure ring number two.
This one brings his total career earrings across the $200,000 mark.
Final table results:
1st: Bryan Carter - $27,332
2nd: Rohit Kwatra - $16,885
3rd: Kenneth Brosnahan - $12,338
4th: Ronald Henson - $9,161
5th: Chad Hamilton - $6,908
6th: Anwar Mohamed - $5,287
7th: William Phillips - $4,106
8th: Kevin Patel - $3,234
9th: Alex Rocha - $2,583
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