Saturday afternoon at Caesars Palace spawned a jam-packed poker room. The World Series of Poker Circuit included the ninth, tenth, and eleventh of 22 gold ring events on this year’s schedule. The $500 buy-in two-day tournament (Event #9) attracted 225 entries, generating $109,125 in prize money. The top 27 finishers collected payouts. Event #10 also began and will conclude on Sunday. Event #11, a “Double Stack Turbo No-Limit Hold’em” tournament, also played to conclusion on this day. The newly-conceived “Double-Stack” event was so popular with players that an alternates list had to be taken. Every poker table at Caesars was filled.

The newest poker tournament champion is Suzanne Carrillo. She is a professional poker player from El Paso, Texas. This marked Carrillo’s second tournament victory. She won an event at the Bellagio recently. She also cashed in two of the first three WSOP events she ever played back in 2005. Carrillo came to the final table as the chip leader.

She lost her advantage late in the tournament but managed to come back and win in an exciting finish. Carrillo became the first female champion to win an open event in the four-year WSOP Circuit series at Caesars Palace. The previous three years, all of the winners were males, except for the special ladies-only tournament.

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by Nolan Dalla