{"id":4451,"date":"2023-01-13T22:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:19:21","slug":"the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lon McEachern and Norman Chad <\/strong>have been the voice of the <strong>World Series of Poker (WSOP)<\/strong> for the past 20 years. On Thursday, the legendary commentator Lon McEachern won th<strong>e First WSOP Circus Ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first event of the series at the <strong>Thunder Valley Casino<\/strong> in Nothern California was<strong> taken down<\/strong> by <strong>Lon-McEachern. <\/strong>This was his largest payday, playing at a $400 Seniors Event for<strong> $15 008.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contest was no-limit hold\u2019em, with 181 entries, which all started and ended on the same day. <strong>McEachern defeated Calvin Norman<\/strong> heads up to win first place, winning his first-ever Circus Ring. <strong>Norman<\/strong> took home <strong>$9 276<\/strong>, whereas, for the third place, <strong>Michael Peters got $6 485<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wsop-commentator-is-now-a-poker-champ\">WSOP Commentator is now a Poker Champ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dan Ross<\/strong>, a poker media veteran of Hold\u2019em Media, reported that for the final hand, <strong>winning for McEachern<\/strong>, players were all-in, Norman Having <strong>A4<\/strong> and Lon having <strong>A8<\/strong>. The cards on the table ran out to be<strong> 9 5 J 2 K<\/strong>, so <strong>Lon McEachern happened to be the Poker Champion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Hendon Mob, <strong>Lon McEachern has more than $75 000 in live poker tournaments<\/strong> after winning this tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Before the final table,<\/strong> <strong>McEachen<\/strong> was just fifth in chips, having <strong>25 big blinds<\/strong>, whereas <strong>Calvin Norman<\/strong> had just <strong>10 big blinds<\/strong>. However, <strong>both players managed to reach the final stage<\/strong>, as the chip leaders quickly faded away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lon McEachern <\/strong>has participated in just a few live tournaments, also some in some of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the best poker sites<\/a>.<\/strong> However, it has already <strong>accomplished much more<\/strong> than winning the WSOP Circus Ring. Nevertheless, he played in fewer tournaments than his TV partner Norman Chad. McEachern managed to win one before him, considering <strong>Chad missed plenty of opportunities to win in a poker tournament.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Thursday<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsop.com\/2022\/circuit\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WSOP Circuit series<\/strong><\/a><strong> at Thunder Vally<\/strong> also kicked off <strong>Event #2, $400 No-Limit Hold\u2019em The Opener.<\/strong> The event is scheduled to be played down to a winner <strong>on Friday.<\/strong> <strong>The whole series feature 13 Ring Events till Jan 23, with a $1 700 Main Event, which will be held from the 20th to 23rd of January, with a $500 000 guaranteed prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"results-of-the-final-table-of-the-wsop-circus-thunder-valley-event-1\">Results of the Final Table of the WSOP Circus Thunder Valley Event #1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th>PLACE<\/th><th>PLAYER<\/th><th>PRIZE<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Lon McEachern<\/td><td>$15 008<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Calvin Norman<\/td><td>$9 276<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Michael Peters<\/td><td>$6 485<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>Anthony Banuelos<\/td><td>$4 633<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Nathan Fitzgerald<\/td><td>$3 835<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>Gregory Agren<\/td><td>$2 530<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Jena Venturini<\/td><td>$1 935<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Paul Richardson<\/td><td>$1 516<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>Ronald Henry Jr.<\/td><td>$1 110<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Jeff Rosen<\/td><td>$1 109<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lon McEachern and Norman Chad have been the voice of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for the past 20 years. On Thursday, the legendary commentator Lon McEachern won the First WSOP Circus Ring. The first event of the series at the Thunder Valley Casino in Nothern California was taken down by Lon-McEachern. This was [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Money Poker Sites News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-13T22:06:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-14T20:19:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"825\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tomas Medon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tomas Medon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/\",\"name\":\"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-13T22:06:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-14T20:19:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/bfdc733169a44f1ae68ecd8d67f70542\"},\"description\":\"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png\",\"width\":825,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"WSOP\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Money Poker Sites News\",\"description\":\"Get Exclusive Poker News Around the World\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/bfdc733169a44f1ae68ecd8d67f70542\",\"name\":\"Tomas Medon\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78e16d8c43bb615f398ea05a1c957a81?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78e16d8c43bb615f398ea05a1c957a81?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tomas Medon\"},\"description\":\"Tomas is quite the poker enthusiast having played and watched the game for over a decade now. His passion for writing has been well-combined with his insight into the industry's latest developments. Tomas is a vigorous and unflagging member of our team, always ready to discuss the latest improvements in the sector, from Virtual Reality (VR) to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to teach people poker, you will be in no shortage of talking points when you meet Tomas. Incidentally, Tomas is quite passionate about teaching people poker, so he will be bringing the occasional in-depth strategy piece.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/author\/tomasm\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern","description":"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern","og_description":"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008","og_url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/","og_site_name":"Money Poker Sites News","article_published_time":"2023-01-13T22:06:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-01-14T20:19:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":825,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Tomas Medon","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tomas Medon","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/","url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/","name":"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png","datePublished":"2023-01-13T22:06:38+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-14T20:19:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/bfdc733169a44f1ae68ecd8d67f70542"},"description":"The Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern managed to win his first ever WSOP Circus Ring Tournaments after beating Calvin Norman for getting the highest prize of $15 008","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/WSOP.png","width":825,"height":450,"caption":"WSOP"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/the-winner-of-the-wsop-circus-ring\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Winner of the WSOP Circus Ring is the Legendary WSOP Commentator Lon McEachern"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/","name":"Money Poker Sites News","description":"Get Exclusive Poker News Around the World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/bfdc733169a44f1ae68ecd8d67f70542","name":"Tomas Medon","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78e16d8c43bb615f398ea05a1c957a81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78e16d8c43bb615f398ea05a1c957a81?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tomas Medon"},"description":"Tomas is quite the poker enthusiast having played and watched the game for over a decade now. His passion for writing has been well-combined with his insight into the industry's latest developments. Tomas is a vigorous and unflagging member of our team, always ready to discuss the latest improvements in the sector, from Virtual Reality (VR) to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to teach people poker, you will be in no shortage of talking points when you meet Tomas. Incidentally, Tomas is quite passionate about teaching people poker, so he will be bringing the occasional in-depth strategy piece.","url":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/author\/tomasm\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moneypokersites.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}