Phillip Pope has taken down the 533-entrant, $1,700 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event defeating Casino Champion, Maurice Hawkins, along the way. 

Poker is a series of mountains and valleys, and if you want to survive the rough terrain, it helps if you are the owner of a small trucking company – like Phillip Pope.

Pope took down the 533-entrant $1,700 buy-in World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event at the Hard Rock Tulsa to register the first live tournament win of his career.

The field size was lower than the organisers expected, having slapped a million dollar guarantee on the side of this particular tin meaning a six-figure pain in the arse, but Pope will be nonplussed.