Connor Berkowitz Poker

7/29/2022

By: Pocket Bullets Paris

As we reported on Monday July 6, the only 2015 WSOP Event left to finish before the Main Event was Event #66: $777 LUCKY SEVENS No-Limit Hold’em.

A 25-year-old man from Freehold, NJ, Connor Berkowitz, indeed took hold of the final table and never let it go. He weathered the storm of a huge field of 4,422 players, won his first gold bracelet, and took home his first place prize money in the amount of $487,784. Congrats, Mr. Berkowitz.

Then it was time for the 46th Annual World Series of Poker 2015 Main Event, the much anticipated Event #68: No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT with a field of more than 6,400 pros and amateurs alike, each and every one of them dreaming of reaching some kind of payday, some of them hoping that they might reach the last few tables, and yet others praying that they will reach the FINAL TABLE and be forever known as part of the FINAL 9 – The November Nine …. who knows, maybe even be crowned the 2015 WSOP Main Event Champion. But you can bet that many of them are having nightmares, waking up in cold sweats after dreaming that they saw themselves sent to the rails before reaching pay dirt.

We wish them all good luck, play well, do not tilt and do not commit Hara-Kiri if you’re bounced to the rails too soon.

Connor Berkowitz won the penultimate event at this year’s World Series of Poker, the Lucky Sevens Event and in the process took home $487,784. The event drew a field of 4,422 players creating a prize pool of $3,095,400. This was the first ever Lucky Sevens Event at the WSOP and the top 468 players got paid.
Connor Berkowitz's Results, Stats. Date Country Watch Place Prize GPI Points; 01-Jul-2020: International $ 500 No Limit Hold'em - Kick-Off (Event #1) World Series of Poker - WSOP Online 2020 at WSOP.com, Online.

$487,784 bonanza for New Jersey professional. Connor Berkowitz, a 25-year-old online poker professional who plays under the handles connisaurusrex and nyr9414, has won the inaugural Event 66: $777 buy-in Lucky Sevens No Limit Hold'em, the last of the preliminary World Series of Poker tournaments to produce a result Monday. Connor Berkowitz poker news stories, interviews, and recaps.

The Main Event began Day 1A on Sunday, July 5th, played through into the wee hours of Monday the 6th and already some unlucky players were sent to the rails. Our eyes and ears say that Mr. Mohammed Ayyash was one of, if not the first, to bust out. Better luck next year sir. Out of the 741 players that hit the felt only 470 survived to see another day. So Mr. Ayyash shouldn’t feel alone; another 300 players were sent to keep him company at the rails. Day 1B got started on Monday at noon and finished on Tuesday the 7th at about 2a.m. with Hamid Feiz taking the overall chip lead with 182,675 in chips so far. But it wasn’t all that great for everyone, in fact some poker pros, including Rob Mizrachi, Eric Baldwin, and Ben Lamb were just a handful of the players who were sent to the rails with their dreams put on hold until next year.

Wednesday’s Main Event action consisted of two separate flights of players divided into two different areas of the Rio Convention Center. The 470 Day 1A survivors fit snugly inside the Amazon Room, while the 1,154 survivors from Day 1B were spread throughout the Pavilion and Brasilia Rooms. Day 1C on Wednesday concluded with John Gorsuch as the chip leader with 198,100. Many more players fell but many still remained. Among those who joined Gorsuch at the top of the chip counts are Zarik Megerdichian (180,400), James Juvancic (166,350), Timo Pfutzenreuter (150,075), Jeff Griffiths (140,400) and Craig Varnell (140,000).

Finally, today the action began at about 1 a.m for Day 2AB and after all the smoke cleared in the wee hours the top 5 chip leaders were as follows: Amar Anand – 603,500 … Calvin Lee – 500,700 … Luther Tran – 479,700 … Charles Chattha – 423,300 … Alan Mastic – 400,000. The action resumed at about 11:30 a.m. today with Day 2C and it’s playing down as of this writing with 3,393 players still in it, just a little more than half of the original field of 6,420 registered entries of the 46th Annual WSOP Main Event.