Casino Player August 2022

Lawrence Brandt made the double bracelet winner roster. He won the $3,000 HORSE event for $205,319 after scoring a bracelet in a $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event for $289,610.

After double bracelet wins, Dan Zack can now add the 2022 WSOP Player of the Year award to his long list of poker accomplishments.

Double Bracelet Winners These three players stood out by winning not one, but two bracelets this summer.Jorstad not only won the Main Event, but also scored another after winning the $1,000 TagTeam with PartyPoker ambassador Patrick Leonard. Lawrence Brandt, of Arlington,TX, also completed the double. He won the $3,000 HORSE event for $205,319 after scoring a bracelet in a $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event for $289,610.Dan Zack also came up huge throughout the summer.The poker pro from Jersey City,NJ,scored his second and third bracelets this summer. The first of those came in June in the $10,000 Omaha Hi Lo Championship for $440,757, followed by the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Championship just days later for another $324,174. Zack Takes Player of the Year Title Beyond his double bracelet wins, Zack showed real consistency throughout the series. He had a real shot at completing a triple bracelet win as well, sandwiching a third-place finish between those two victories. In total, the New Jersey grinder scored 18 cashes throughout the series. That performance earned him the Player of theYear title, awarding Zack with a 2023WSOP Main Event seat, a winner’s trophy,and a Player of theYear banner displayed during eachWSOP at Paris/Bally’s. Zack set a goal to win the title after his first bracelet win of the summer and came through. “I feel honored to be among so many big names to have won the title,” he told Casino Player .“I grew up watching the WSOP on ESPN and these guys were my idols growing up.To see my name among them now is a childhood dream come true.”

Benjamin Kaupp Scores Free $250K in Tournament of Champions

TheWSOP added a newTournament of Champions this year as the final event in the series.The event is a freeroll exclusively for all bracelet winners of WSOP Circuit ring winners, either live or online. Regular online player Benjamin Kaupp, of FeastervilleTrevose, PA, took the title for $250,000 and his first bracelet.He qualified for the event after winning a circuit ring online in February. Online poker is now legal in Pennsylvania as well as New Jersey, Michigan,Nevada and Delaware. Playing at the virtual table seems to have helped Kaupp,who has $331,625 in live tournament winnings and more online. “I’ve just been grinding online for the last couple of years, taking it pretty seriously,”he said.“I play a lot of the circuit events online. I didn’t really play poker for a while until the last couple of years when it was legal in Pennsylvania again.”

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