Already at the beginning of the final table, Flowers had a minor chiplead. The stacks were as follows:
![WPT Festa FT Stacks WPT Festa FT Stacks](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/4/534.png)
After about 25 hands into the initial level 27 (40,000/80,000/10,000), play already came down to the elimination of Skip Wilson, who ran into Michael Benvenuti’s pocket queens. From then on, Flowers kept sending his opponents to the rail; he bested Frankenberger (with pocket tens), Koon (with jack-high straight) as well as Schwartz (with
A
Q ).
![Festa al Lago Final Table Festa al Lago Final Table](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/3/533.png)
The Festa al Lago final table
Level 30 (80,000/160,000/15,000) saw the showdown of the heads-up, where Flowers had a massive chiplead of 5:2 over Benvenuti all along. After around a dozen hands, the latter went all-in on a flop of
9
6
6 , holding
Q
7 for a flush draw. With the turn being
4 and the river
A , however, Flowers’ top pair of nines won him the hand along with his second WPT title. The winnings can be seen below:
![WPT Festa FT Winnings WPT Festa FT Winnings](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/2/532.png)
Watch Kimberly Lansing’s interview for WPT with the winner here.
![WPT Festa FT Stacks WPT Festa FT Stacks](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/4/534.png)
After about 25 hands into the initial level 27 (40,000/80,000/10,000), play already came down to the elimination of Skip Wilson, who ran into Michael Benvenuti’s pocket queens. From then on, Flowers kept sending his opponents to the rail; he bested Frankenberger (with pocket tens), Koon (with jack-high straight) as well as Schwartz (with
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![Festa al Lago Final Table Festa al Lago Final Table](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/3/533.png)
The Festa al Lago final table
Level 30 (80,000/160,000/15,000) saw the showdown of the heads-up, where Flowers had a massive chiplead of 5:2 over Benvenuti all along. After around a dozen hands, the latter went all-in on a flop of
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![WPT Festa FT Winnings WPT Festa FT Winnings](/files/images/original/5/5/5/3/2/532.png)
Watch Kimberly Lansing’s interview for WPT with the winner here.
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