On July 11, Tom Marchese won $195,963 and his maiden World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet on the virtual felt in Event #17: $1,000 NLH 6-Max Online Championship.
The WSOP Online event was open to players located in Nevada and New Jersey, and a total of 1,170 entries created a prize pool of $1,053,000 paid out to the top 167 finishers.
Marchese made a deep run in Online Event #16 only a couple of days earlier but fell just short of the final table when he finished 13th out of 2,157 entrants.