Longtime high roller David Peters finally got his bracelet at the World Series of Poker after years of close calls, and it came in the everyman's event, a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. He bested a field of 1,860 for a $412,557 first-place prize.
That sum pales in comparison to some of the scores in Peters' past, ranking behind two seven-figure scores and four other cashes, but this one carried plenty of significance for the man from Toledo, Ohio.
"I'm definitely surprised," he said when asked if he imagined it would take this long for a player with so much success to finally find WSOP gold.