{"id":36201,"date":"2026-08-20T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/?p=36201"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:00:55","slug":"curtis-king-strikes-gold-in-world-series-of-poker-circuit-main-event-at-harrahs-cherokee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/curtis-king-strikes-gold-in-world-series-of-poker-circuit-main-event-at-harrahs-cherokee\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis King Strikes Gold in World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s Cherokee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Curtis King won his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring at Harrah’s Cherokee, beating a large field who built a prize pool of more than $2.5 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curtis King won his first WSOP ring and $363,703 at Harrah’s Cherokee. (Image: Poker.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

King took the lion’s share $363,703 of that, beating his career-best of $68,000 he won in 2022 at the $1,000 Spring Fling in Sarasota. His second-largest cash came in the 2025 WSOP Main Event where he finished 267th for $52,500. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The $1,700 Main Event brought in 1,681 thanks to two Day 1’s Aug. 14 and 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was runner-up Toby Boas’ second WSOP Circuit Main Event final table of 2026. He finished fourth at the same casino in February for $133,478. The $242,423 he took for second only trails the $345,244 he won for another second-place finish in a $3,000 event at the WSOP in 2022. He’s approaching $3 million in cashes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only that, this was Boas’ 11th WSOP Circuit final table at Harrah’s Cherokee, but a ring still alludes him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third-place finisher Ryan D\u2019Angelo, who got online poker famous a decade ago playing as “g0lfa,” added another $172,763 to his lifetime stack that now sits in the $4 million neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Kelsall was going for his fifth WSOP Circuit ring, but stalled in sixth place for $67,820.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Table Results of the August 2026 $1,700 Main Event at Harrah’s Cherokee<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/strong><\/td>Player<\/strong><\/td>Payout<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Curtis King<\/td>$363,703<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Toby Boas<\/td>$242,423<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Ryan D\u2019Angelo<\/td>$172,763<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Kataka Eaton<\/td>$124,782<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Donta Moss<\/td>$91,361<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Andrew Kelsall<\/td>$67,820<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Scott Gronroos<\/td>$51,053<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Caio Sobral<\/td>$38,980<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>David Sathue<\/td>$30,194<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curtis King won his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring at Harrah’s Cherokee, beating a large field who built a prize pool of more than $2.5 million. King took the lion’s share $363,703 of that, beating his career-best of $68,000 he won in 2022 at the $1,000 Spring Fling in Sarasota. His second-largest cash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":36202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,527,499,7415,535,501,523],"tags":[577],"vertical":[],"class_list":["post-36201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-poker-business","category-poker","category-poker-news","category-tournament-schedules","category-poker-tournaments","category-wsop-news","tag-poker"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":36201},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Curtis_King-600x400.webp","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.casino.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Curtis_King-600x600.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Bob Pajich","author_link":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/author\/bob-pajich\/"},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36201"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36222,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36201\/revisions\/36222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36201"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.casino.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=36201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}