PA Poker Participant Cherish Andrews Earns Practically $500,000 In December

For Pennsylvania poker participant Cherish Andrews, Christmas got here early this yr. The St. Thomas, PA resident racked up nearly $500,000 in event winnings this previous month.

Her accomplishments had been sufficient that the World Poker Tour (WPT) named her No. 1  “Participant of the Competition” at this yr’s Wynn Poker World Championships.

Huge wins on the Wynn

The WPT held their World Poker Championship on the Wynn Las Vegas from Dec. 1-19 and featured 23 tournaments. Assured prize swimming pools of greater than $22 million had been introduced for the collection.

Cherish Andrews went on a powerful run and scored a number of deep cashes. In addition to the cash, the factors she gathered allowed her to cruise to the high of the leaderboard. As a bonus, she was given a $10,000 seat into the 2023 World Championships.

In a single week she gathered the next scores:

• $1,100 WPT NLHE (Dec. 19) – 1st, $131,912
• $10,100 WPT NL Excessive Curler (Dec. 18) – 2nd, $259,200
• $3,000 WPT NLHE (Dec. 15) – sixth, $78,045

Andrews snags first WSOP Bracelet

The Wynn collection wasn’t only a good run of luck, Andrews has been crushing all yr lengthy. Only recently, she gained her first ever World Sequence of Poker Bracelet when she gained a web based occasion on Oct. 16. That win gave her some new {hardware} and $31,986 within the financial institution, as effectively. She had beforehand spoken to USpoker about her win and joked concerning the potentialities main as much as the event.

“Profitable felt fairly good, I gained’t lie,” says Andrews. “My boyfriend and I joke rather a lot on Sundays (when the bracelet occasions are operating in Pennsylvania) and say, ‘We may actually win a bracelet.’ And I did, I gained a bracelet.”

She hasn’t secured a circuit ring but, however got here shut a couple of days after her bracelet win. The PA grinder got here in second for $9,868 in circuit occasion No. 11 on Oct. 26.

This previous summer time, Andrews made an look on the WSOP dwell occasions in Las Vegas and reported over $40,000 in cashes. This included a last desk look within the Women Occasion No. 61 that secured her $12,965. She completed ninth in that event.

In addition to the WSOP, Andrews locked up sixth place in a $2,200 Wynn Thriller Bounty event. Simply down the road from the WSOP, she was ready so as to add one other $72,105 to her bankroll, not together with bounties.

BetMGM’s ‘The Return’ tops poker plans for 2023

Andrews has no plans on stopping the push anytime quickly. For her subsequent endeavor, she has her eyes set on “The Return” collection being hosted by BetMGM.

Count on to see Andrews firing in all the large occasions throughout that week.

The entire dwell collection is as follows:

• $2,200 NLH Thriller Bounty (Occasion 1, Jan. 2-3) – $1 million assured
• $560 NLH State Qualifier to Major Occasion (Occasion 2, Jan. 3) – 1 in 10 win
• $5,400 NLH Major Occasion (Occasion 3, Jan. 4-8) – $1 million assured
• $2,100 NLH 1k Bounty (Occasion 4, Jan. 6-7) – $150,000 assured
• $1,100 NLH Survivor (Occasion 5, Jan. 7-8) – $100,000 assured