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Tim Vance takes down WSOPC event

Tim Vance

By Sarah Polson

You never know who might show up to play in a World Series of Poker Circuit event. The surprise over the past couple of days' action at the Caesars Indiana stop was Tim Vance showing up to win Event 5 of the series.

Vance, who won a European Poker Tour event in February, returned to his home country to take down the WSOPC event. He is joined by the winners of Event 4 and Event 6.

Event 4, $300 No-Limit Hold'em

Event 4 at the WSOPC Caesars Indiana stop was number one for Tim Laws as he registered his first win after quitting his job in December to play professional poker.

Laws, 29, is from Columbia, Miss., where he worked previously installing granite and marble in home kitchens and bathrooms. Since January, he's played in eight WSOPC events and made two prior final tables.

His best finish was third in a $300 event at Council Bluffs, Iowa, but now he's got a win under his belt as well, winning an official $49,239 after having made a deal when the final table got down to heads-up play.

Laws wasn't the favorite heading into the final table. He was second in the chip count, but the leader, Justin Scott, had more than double his chips with $560,000 to Laws' $214,000.

As the table played out though, Scott ended up in third place, while Mark Wright and Laws were left to duke it out heads-up. However, Laws had more than a million of the $1.573 million chips in play, and he and Wright took a break to discuss a deal.

When they came back to the table, a couple of hands were played to make the ending official and Laws had the win.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Hometown	Prize
1st	Tim Laws	Columbia, Mo.	$49,238.56
2nd	Mark Wright	Nashville, Tenn.	$25,498.54
3rd	Justin Scott	Redford Twp, Mo.	$14,068.16
4th	Dan Hill	Mason, Ohio	$12,310.64
5th	Matt Ready	Cincinnati, Ohio	$10,551.12
6th	Brian Tweedie	Independence, Mo.	$8,792.60
7th	Stephen Raz	Fort Wayne, Ind.	$7,034.08
8th	Thaddeus Haas	Naperville, Ill.	$5,275.56
9th	Douglas Carli	Alliance, Ohio	$3,517.04

Event 5, $500 No-Limit Hold'em

Another Tim came to the forefront during the $500 No-Limit Hold'em event as Tim Vance took down the event for a $61,020 win.

That's pocket change for Vance, who won the PokerStars European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open in February to earn more than $1 million.

This win came a little more easily for the Illinois resident, however. Coming into the final table in the middle of the pack, Vance worked his way to heads-up play against Brian Roberts, from Indiana.

In Copenhagen, Vance had to endure a grueling four and a half hours of heads-up play before claiming his EPT win. This time it only took 10 hands and he had another title to add to his resume.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Hometown	Prize
1st	Tim Vance	Milstadt, Ill.	$61,020
2nd	Brian Roberts	Ridgeville, Ind.	$32,747
3rd	Bob Miller	Dubois, Ind.	$16,272
4th	Chad Hahn	Indianapolis, Ind.	$14,238
5th	Cy Dixon	Lexington, Ky.	$12,204
6th	Bill Varga	Paris, Ky.	$10,170
7th	David Cupps	Bedford, Ill.	$8,136
8th	Pat Peercy	Fortville, Ind.	$6,102
9th	Daniel Numan	Johnson City, Tenn.	$4,068

Event 6, $200 Ladies Only

From the looks of the final table, it seemed that Patty Till should have had an easy win in the Ladies Only event of the WSOP Caesars Indiana. She entered the final table with $235,000 in chips, while her nearest competitor, Kelley Kiser, was sitting with $92,000.

As the final table played out, however, Kiser started to close the gap as she and Till took turns taking out most of the other players at the table. Kiser even pulled ahead in the chip count when the table was four-handed, and when she entered heads-up play against Till, she had a 3-2 chip lead.

After 10 hands of play heads-up, the two players were nearly neck and neck again. They took a short break, and when they returned, they played one hand all-in.

Till had pocket fives, while Kiser had J-8. Initially it looked like Till's pocket fives were going to hold up, but an eight on the river gave Kiser the win.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Hometown	Prize
1st	Kelley Kiser	South Bloomfield, Ohio	$12,879
2nd	Patty Till	Avon, Ind.	$7,083
3rd	Janet Branson	Greenfield, Ohio	$3,622
4th	Jennifer Legowski	Poplar Grove, Ill.	$2,817
5th	Carrie Oster	Greenwood, Tenn.	$2,415
6th	Rita Davison	Loveland, Ohio	$2,012
7th	Rikki Herriman	Indianapolis, Ind.	$1,610
8th	Amanda Zeger	Galion, Ohio	$1,207
9th	Linda McDonald	Columbia, S.C.	$805

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