This year I was in a panic and, in a last ditch effort, got into the tournament by making it into the top 20 of one of the last tournaments they held before the championship.” “I won an event that got me into the event last year with plenty of time to prepare. “I started playing on WPT last spring and one random day decided to upgrade to a higher level because they had better tournaments,” Breslin said. Stacey Breslin, a Lafayette, Ind., native, is competing in her second year at the World Poker Tour Championship for a record-breaking $40 million prize pool starting Tuesday, Dec.