The first World Series of Poker circuit tournament at Harrah's Rincon Casino and Resort was a complete sell out. The poker room was filled to capacity and 100 additional players later took seats as alternates.

Chris Farmer, a 25-year-old semi-pro poker player from San Diego, won it, collecting $24,415 in prize money for what was his first time to cash in a WSOP circuit tournament.

When play was reduced to three-handed, San Diego's Ryan Westover finally went south with Ks-9d, which ended up losing to Chris Farmer's Kd-Qd. Farmer-who had both a straight draw and a flush draw working-completed his straight on the last card, when the board showed As-Td-9a-5d-Js. Westover took home $9,471 for third place.

When the action was heads-up, Rod "Big Dog" Dingler came close to victory several times. He held the chip lead during most of the final table play and had his opponent all in and covered four times, losing on each occasion. Had Dingler managed to catch just one card at a key moment, he would have won. Instead, Dingler was never able to close out the victory. One of many turning points came when Chris Farmer rivered a full house, which proved to be the decisive hand of the tournament.

Dingler was eliminated about 15 minutes later, after he lost a race with pocket eights against A-Q. Rod "Big Dog" Dingler, a real estate agent from Temecula, CA collected $14,235 for his second place finish.

HARRAH'S RINCON WSOP CIRCUIT EVENT
EVENT 7 3/24/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $300
PLAYERS 167
PRIZE POOL $48,597
1. Mike Souza . . . . . . . $13,237
2. Ashish Khanna . . . . . $8,155
3. Dustin Fox . . . . . . . . . $5,759
4. David Williams . . . . . $4,111
5. Jeremy Hopkins . . . . $3,290
6. Richard Aronow . . . . $2,469
7. Rip Fritzer . . . . . . . . $1,647

EVENT 6 3/23/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $200
PLAYERS 283
PRIZE POOL $54,904
1. Garrett Levrini . . . . $13,339
2. Amir Turkzadeh . . . . $8,115
3. Bret Eledge . . . . . . . . $5,776
4. Edward Liu . . . . . . . . $4,129

EVENT 5 3/22/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $300
PLAYERS 120
PRIZE POOL $34,920
1. Brent Wilkes . . . . . . $10,090
2. Joseph Occipinti . . . . $6,837
3. Chuck Martinez . . . . $4,561
4. Leo Gianulis . . . . . . . $3,258

EVENT 4 3/21/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $300
PLAYERS 197
PRIZE POOL $57,327
1. Ethan van Klaveren $15,079
2. Ali Yousri . . . . . . . . . $9,258
3. Stephen Peterson . . . $6,552
4. Troy Benjamin . . . . . $4,678

EVENT 3 3/20/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $500
PLAYERS 151
PRIZE POOL $73,235
1. Bernie Yang . . . . . . . $20,065
2. Jason Jacintho . . . . $13,585
3. Mike Souza . . . . . . . . $9,059
4. Derek Sanders . . . . . $6,474
5. James Eubank . . . . . $5,178
6. Alexandru Masek . . . $3,881

EVENT 2 3/19/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $300
PLAYERS 236
PRIZE POOL $68,686
1. Joseph Cheong . . . . $17,541
2. David Williams . . . . $10,727
3. Raney Stanczak . . . . $7,609
4. John Hernandez . . . . $5,432
5. David Caserta . . . . . . $4,347

EVENT 1 3/18/10
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $200
PLAYERS 599
PRIZE POOL $116,206
1. Chris Farmer . . . . . $24,415
2. Rod Dingler . . . . . . . $14,235
3. Ryan Westland . . . . . $9,471
4. Ron Segni . . . . . . . . . $7,286
5. Chris McGrath . . . . . $5,834
6. George Rutherford . . $4,369
7. Tim Omohundro . . . $2,917