'I'd really like to say, I had a really good friend who taught me not only a lot about poker but also life. So you know this is awesome, I'm so glad I get to share this victory with my league.'Īnother perk to Holcomb's poker league aside from the winner having their buy-in paid for is the trophy they win, which is dedicated to Holcomb's friend Chris Ghylin. The northern Oklahoma poker league has 15-20 people in it and they just became a whole lot richer as Holcomb explained: 'We have had this home game going for about 15 years now and the way it works is you have a certain amount of sessions with the overall winner getting his buy-in paid for from the league, and whatever that player wins, they have to share half of it with the league. Holcomb, an Oklahoma native, only used one bullet to buy into the tournament, which he secured via a home poker league held in Bartlesville. I finished third in the Tulsa series a couple of seasons ago and that has been stinging ever since so it feels good to bring this one home.'
'I've been thinking about this ring forever. 'You know the money is good but it's different,' he said. The victory was the first of Holcomb's poker career after finishing in third-place in Tulsa's Circuit event just last year. Hollis 'Victory' Holcomb is the first champion of the 2019/20 World Series of Poker Circuit season after outlasting a field of 976 entries in the Choctaw Durant stop en route to the first-place prize of $255,535.
