Travis Egbert wears down Xiong ‘Peter’ Thao during an epic 5-hour-long heads-up match to claim victory in the $1 Million Guarantee WSOP Circuit $1,700 Main Event hosted at TVPokerRoom at Thunder Valley Resort in northern California.
Thao – who began Day 3 15th out of 15 with just 8bb – doubled through Michael Persky TT > KK early in the day, then went on to spin up his stack all the way to heads up
Egbert was chipleader to start Day 3, built the stack to starting 10-handed final table action with 50 percent of the chips, then found Thao nearly impossible to put away.
Egbert scores his third WSOP Circuit ring this year, all won here at TVPokerRoom.
Here’s the Official Order of Finish
(Alicia Skillman, 8131 Media photo)
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