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Daniel Lowery Wins 17th World Series of Poker Circuit Ring

Gold Ring Race Continues To Heat Up, With Top Four Contenders All Capturing Titles Within A One-Week Span

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It has been an action-packed week at the top of the World Series of Poker Circuit titles leaderboard. On Mar. 3, Maurice Hawkins won his record-tying 18th gold ring in the WSOPC Horseshoe Baltimore main event, a tournament that also made headlines for a controversial mistaken elimination.

A handful of days later, Ari Engel broke the tie. Engel took down a WSOP Circuit Online $500 buy-in event in Pennsylvania to set a new record with 19 rings.

The following day, Daniel Lowery put himself one win behind Hawkins by coming out on top in the 2025 WSOP Circuit Hard Rock Tulsa $250 seniors event. The Sawmill owner and part-time poker player from Arkansas topped the field of 448 entries to earn $17,187 and his 17th WSOPC title.

Lowery now has $1,890,333 in WSOPC earnings, the second-highest total of any player on the tour. He trails only Hawkins, who has accrued more than $3.1 million across his 174 WSOPC cashes.

This was the 172nd in-the-money finish in a WSOPC event for Lowery. His largest payday on the tour came when he took down the main event at the 2017 WSOPC Choctaw stop for $258,784.

In between Hawkins’ and Engels’ wins, Joshua Reichard also secured his 16th ring, coming out on top in a $400 H.O.R.S.E. tournament at the recently completed Horseshoe Hammond stop. That gives all top four contenders in the rings race a win within the span of a week.

Check out the current WSOPC rings leaderboard below.

Rank Player Rings WSPC Earnings
1 Ari Engel 19 $1,149,656
2 Maurice Hawkins 18 $3,136,305
3 Daniel Lowery 17 $1,890,333
4 Joshua Reichard 16 $1,292,882
5 Valentin Vornicu 13 $693,165
6 Michael Lavin 13 $344,858
7 Michael Setera 13 $360,591
8 Soheb Porbandarwala 12 $1,033,302
9 Roland Israelashvili 11 $1,258,049
10 John Holley 11 $1,027,346

Photo credit: WSOP.