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• Scott Stewart Wins His Seventh WSOPC Ring...
• WSOP Thunder Valley Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Final Table Results
• ...And His Eighth
• WSOP Thunder Valley Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Final Table Results
• Main Event Action
• WSOP Thunder Valley Main Event Final Table Results
• Up Next On The Circuit
• WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley Full Series Results

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) festival came to a close Monday at Thunder Valley Casino with a big winner in December continuing his prowess in tournament poker.

The WSOPC Thunder Valley festival awarded 16 gold rings to some lucky and skilled players as well as awarding millions of dollars in prizes.

The Main Event went to Akbar Zamani for $187,882, while elsewhere at the series Scott Stewart won his seventh WSOPC ring just one month and one day after winning $2.5 million for first place in the WPT World Championship event. Four days later, he grabbed his eighth WSOPC ring in the final event of the festival.

Scott Stewart Wins His Seventh WSOPC Ring...

It had barely been a month since winning the WPT World Championship when Stewart bought into WSOPC Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max. Later that same day, he was slipping his seventh WSOP Circuit ring onto his finger having taken the whole thing down.

After the WPT World Championship event, Stewart took a few weeks off from tournament poker for the Winter holidays. So the Thunder Valley series was his first outing since hitting the big time.

A $600 WSOP Circuit event may have been a step down in stakes from a multi-million dollar final table. But that just reflects how grounded Stewart remained after his big win. When asked what he planned to do with his recent windfall, he told the WSOP that he wanted “a golf cart that’s wrapped in Jurassic Park so I can act like I’m driving around Jurassic Park without it being Jurassic Park. That’s the only thing I want to buy."

Stewart took home $16,980 for his victory at the WSOPC.

WSOP Thunder Valley Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Final Table Results

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Scott Stewart	Lakewood, CA	$16,980
2	Ed Smith	Twenty-nine Palms, CA	$11,100
3	Robert Mather	Las Vegas, NV	$7,500
4	Paul Richardson	San Ramon, CA	$5,238
5	Ricardo Eyzaguirre	Miami, FL	$3,788
6	Tsz Liu	Corvallis, OR	$2,839
7	Toan Nguyen	Elk Grove, CA	$2,209

...And His Eighth

Four days after winning the check and jewelry for Event #11, Stewart was back at the cashier to collect $7,290 for winning Event #16: $400 - The Finale.

Stewart was up against a field of 77 other players for a chunk of the $25,410 prize pool.

This victory brings Stewart's total live tournament winnings to $5,573,690 around half of which was earned in the last six weeks. He'll certainly be able to afford that Jurassic Park buggy now.

WSOP Thunder Valley Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max Final Table Results

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Scott Stewart	Lakewood, CA	$7,290
2	Ronnie Malonzo	Roseville, CA	$4,662
3	Evan Price	Concord, CA	$3,120
4	Dan Stavila	Oakland, CA	$2,191
5	Shawn Murray	Mililani, HI	$1,617
6	Kais Mohammad	Yorba Linda, CA	$1,258
7	Yang Lu	Seattle, WA	$1,035
8	Juan Lugo	Manteca, CA	$903
9	Aditya Prasetyo	Cambridge, MA	$838

Main Event Action

The other major story of the Thunder Valley series was Akbar Zamani's victory in the $1,700 Main Event.

The Thunder Valley festival was a little smaller than some stops, with 16 ring events instead of the usual 18. However, this didn't stop the Main Event from cracking $1 million in prizes.

Once the 676 entries were tallied and raked, the prize pool for the event was $1,024,140 and the top prize was set at $187,882.

Everyone at the final table was guaranteed at least $11,300. However, Zamani was aiming higher. Even the top prize was small change compared to his biggest win, a $500,000 lottery win. Luckily Zamani started the final table in a strong position, second in chips.

Zamani was able to leverage that initial lead into a decent heads-up stack, and from there bluffed his way to a comprehensive victory over Antonio Ma.

“I love heads-up," Zamani told the WSOP. "I think I had control over him. When we started heads-up, I dominated him. I knew when was the right time to bluff.”

Ma took home $125,260 for second place.

WSOP Thunder Valley Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Akbar Zamani	$187,882
2	Antonio Ma	$125,260
3	Noah Curhan	$87,120
4	Michael Lin	$61,645
5	Erle Mankin	$44,390
6	Julian Bonorris	$32,540
7	I Le Wu	$24,290
8	Jiangfeng Yin	$18,470
8	Jose Mas	$14,310

Up Next On The Circuit

With a wrap called on the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley, the next red letter day on the Circuit calendar will be the Main Event of the Horseshoe Tunica festival.

The WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica festival is already underway. However, the festival's Main Event doesn't start until the Day 1 flights held on January 31 and February 1.

The next festival to kick off will then be the event at Harrah's Pompano Beach.

You can see the full results for the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley below.

WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley Full Series Results

EVENT	ENTRANTS	WINNER	PRIZE	PRIZEPOOL
WSOPC Event #1: $400 Seniors Event	185	Frederic Soria	$14,475	$61,050
WSOPC Event #2: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout	84	Lian Liu	$7,840	$27,720
WSOPC Event #3: $400 No-Limit Hold'em - The Opener	1,323	Arlen Sarte	$62,066	$436,590
WSOPC Event #4: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha 8	93	Cory Salzillo	$13,284	$47,895
WSOPC Event #5: $600 No-Limit Hold'em	192	Angelo Kratsas	$23,258	$98,880
WSOPC Event #6: $400 No-Limit Hold'em	242	Ryan Awwad	$18,092	$79,860
WSOPC Event #7: $600 Omaha 8	73	Scott Rist	$11,069	$24,090
WSOPC Event #8: $400 No-Limit Hold'em Knockout	153	Ivan Zarate	$8,960	$50,490
WSOPC Event #9: $600 T.O.R.S.E.	49	Ariel Shefer	$8,276	$25,235
WSOPC Event #10: $400 Monster Stack	649	Wilson Tolon	$37,016	$214,170
WSOPC Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max	134	Scott Stewart	$16,980	$69,010
WSOPC Event #12: $3,250 High Roller	100	Andrew Ostapchenko	$81,450	$300,000
WSOPC Event #13: $1,700 Main Event	676	Akbar Zamani	$187,882	$1,024,140
WSOPC Event #14: $400 No-Limit Hold'em - ''Thirty''	167	Emily Terry	$13,359	$55,110
WSOPC Event #15: $1,125 No-Limit Hold'em - Last Call	144	Hieu Tran	$36,573	$144,000
WSOPC Event #16: $400 No-Limit Hold'em - Series Finale	77	Scott Stewart	$7,290 $25,410