Josh Reichard Captures Ring at Potawatomi for Fourth Stop in a Row
For the fourth straight WSOP Circuit Potawatomi stop, Josh Reichard added a ring to his swelling collection. This time around, Reichard won Event #9:$400 No-Limit Hold'em (1 Day) for $12,921. The ring win is Reichard's 12th, putting him one back of Maurice Hawkins for the lead and tied with Val Vornicu for second all time.
In his latest win, Reichard held a sizable chip lead heading to the final table out of a field of 146 entries, according to the WSOP coverage. Reichard continued to roll at the final table and victory seemed all but assured as he had about 2 million out of about 2.2 million heads up against Yoon Kim, following the eliminations of a slew of Circuit regs like Byron Ziebell, Jorden Helstern and Bryan Skreens.
However, rough waters hit at that point and Kim mounted a large comeback. Reichard said Kim doubled his last few big blinds with 
over 
then called another shove with 
in the big blind for about 420,000 at 20,000/40,000/40,000. He was in a dominating spot and held against queen-four and suddenly it was game on. Another double followed with ace-queen over ace-five, and Reichard found himself outchipped.
No sweat for Janesville's finest as he found his own dominating ace for a double back through then closed things out when his ace-three held on against king-jack.
"He's a great player and he almost came back to take the win," Reichard said.
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WSOPC Potawatomi Event #9 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh Reichard | Janesville, Wisconsin | $12,921 |
| 2 | Yoon Kim | Caledonia, Wisconsin | $7,986 |
| 3 | George Dietz | Oak Park, Illinois | $5,504 |
| 4 | Bryan Skreens | Winfield, Illinois | $3,889 |
| 5 | Jorden Helstern | Chicago Illinois | $2,820 |
| 6 | Bryan Manke | Windsor, Wisconsin | $2,100 |
| 7 | Marius Toderici | Chicago, Illinois | $1,606 |
| 8 | Clinton Wolcyn | Savage, Minnesota | $1,264 |
| 9 | Byron Ziebell | Hales Corners, Wisconsin | $1,023 |