Josh Turner has defeated Javier Zarco, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of $136,945 in a bumper field at the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,675 Main Event at the Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel in St Louis.

Josh Turner has gone wire-to-wire in the $1,675 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel in St Louis, Missouri.

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He dominated the first day of action, finishing with 400,500 chips – almost half as many as the player in second place. When he finished Day 2 he was the man heading to the final table as the chip leader, and he finished the last day with every single chip in the competition.

It’s been an outstanding year for the local lad from St. Louis. This victory was his 11th cash of the season, his seventh final table, and his second gold ring. However, despite all the accolades, this marked his first deep run in a WSOPC Main Event, and the $136,945 is the largest score of his career.

415 entrants created a total prize pool of $622,500. It was a fairly inexperienced final table with only Jesse Watson having any significant form of note, after winning a ring earlier in the season when he beat 187 players in a six-handed No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) event for $15,428.

It’s not often that you see a Spaniard involved in the WSOPC, but Javier Zarco was a serious contender in this one. According to WSOP reports he pushed Turner all the way, and could easily have walked away from St. Louis wearing the gold ring.