Evan Sandberg Beats Robust Remaining Desk at WSOPC Lake Tahoe Predominant Occasion

On Monday morning, Evan Sandberg had a pair of WSOP on-line bracelets in his trophy cupboard. By the tip of the day, he had a World Collection of Poker Circuit ring to mud round as effectively.

After amassing his $133,841 for first place within the Occasion #13: $1,700 Predominant Occasion on the WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe pageant, Sandberg now has a bit of over $1.Four million in reside cashes.

The $1,700 buy-in, no restrict maintain’em Predominant Occasion attracted 439 gamers and racked up $665,085 within the prize pool. This made up greater than a 3rd of the $1,764,246 in prizes awarded throughout the 18 ring occasions of the pageant.

Preventing For First

Sandberg’s battle to the highest spot did not come simply. Having spent two days combating by means of a subject that was 439-entries robust, Sandberg discovered himself at a closing desk with Michael Pearson.

Pearson is a stable participant with kind at Lake Tahoe, having taken down this actual occasion in 2016 and 2019.

Sandberg additionally needed to be careful for WSOP Circuit ring winners Bilguun Odgerel and Brett Murray and Dann Turner who has a WSOP On-line bracelet, 5 WSOP Circuit closing desk finishes, 4 WPT Deepstack closing tables, and a TV bubble end within the 2023 WPT Rolling Thunder Predominant Occasion.

Regardless of the robust line up, Sandberg did his finest to keep away from being intimidated on the closing desk.

“For me, I all the time get pleasure from a problem,” he advised WSOP.com. “So, taking part in with robust competitors does make it loads funner for me. It motivates me to essentially play my finest.”

With all this {hardware} on the desk, Sandberg managed to carry his personal, going into Day Three with the fifth largest stack of seven.

Day Three Motion

On the ultimate day, Vinny Chu and Travis Stevenson had been the primary out of the motion on Day 3. Pearson adopted in fifth, incomes $28,921.

Murray and Turner took fourth and third respectively, leaving Sandberg heads up in opposition to James Czarnecki.

Czarnecki had a very good begin within the heads up part of the tounrey. Though the gamers started with roughly even stacks, Czarnecki shortly pulled forward.

Nonetheless, Sandberg was in a position to flip issues round when his three-bet bluff with Qx6x was referred to as preflop.

“I assumed he seemed weak when he raised — a totally unhealthy learn,” he defined after the hand.

Nonetheless, it was a superbly timed mistake because the flop got here out queen excessive and he picked up a six on the flip. After check-raising all in and getting a name, Sandberg’s two-pair took it down and abruptly he was out within the lead.

After that, it was only a matter of mopping up the final of Czarnecki’s chips. Czarnecki ended up taking house $87,977 for second place, whereas Sandberg pocketed $133,841 and the ring for first place.

WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe Predominant Occasion Remaining Desk Outcomes

Coming Quickly

The following huge occasion on the WSOPC calendar is the WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant. The Predominant Occasion of that pageant will declare a winner on November 11 and the preliminary ring occasions are already underway.

After that there are simply 4 extra occasions left in 2024 for the WSOPC. The WSOP Circuit Grand Victoria begins on November 7, the WSOP Circuit Commerce on November 21, and the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas on November 28.

Then it’s on to the ultimate occasion of the 12 months when the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee kicks off on November 28, closing out the 12 months when the pageant finishes on December 9.

You possibly can take a look at the total outcomes for the WSOP Lake Tahoe pageant under.

WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe Full Collection Outcomes