WSOP Main Event Finalist Looking for MSPT Venetian Success

Chad Holloway

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

Shawn Stroke, a 31-year-old recreational player from Long Island, New York, has put together a pretty strong run of cashes in recent years.

Stroke had a near miss on a bracelet in 2017, when he got second to William Reymond in the $365 online bracelet event for a score of $94K. He then cashed three more online bracelet events in 2019 for a total of more than $10K.

Last week, he was the second-largest stack coming into the 2020 WSOP Main Event final table, which meant he had locked up his biggest score ever, one that dwarfed even his total live cashes of $68K according to The Hendon Mob.

The mechanic has come a long way since losing his brother's bankroll as an underage player back in the day, and he soaked it all in ahead of the biggest final table of his life.

��Feels nothing less than amazing, taking it all in each day,�� he said of making it to poker��s biggest stage. ��I wake up and remind myself that this is real and envision myself hoisting that WSOP bracelet.��

Unfortunately for Stroke, the cards didn't go his way at the final table and he wound up bowing out in seventh place for $163,786.

Stroke stuck around Vegas after busting the WSOP Main Event and has ventured over to the Venetian to fire today's MSPT tournament.