Jarvis: A 8
Filtz: K 9
Board: 5 3 6 2 3
Matt Jarvis
Jarvis earned this year’s fifth bracelet for Canada. The winners were the following:
Event #41 $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout victory went to Justin Pechie, who took home $167,060. Although Eugene Katchalov was also seated at the 10-handed final table, eventually it was Pechie and Dale Eberle playing heads-up. They went all-in preflop:
Pechie: K J
Eberle: Q J
Board: K A 3 5 7
After playing final tables in 2006 and 2007, Pechie won his first WSOP bracelet this time. The results are as follows:
On Day 4 of Event #42 $10,000 PLO Championship, play continued 4-handed. Finally, Ben Lamb and Sami ‘LarsLuzak’ Kelopuro were left to play the heads-up session that lasted 20 minutes. They had nearly equal stacks when they ran all-in on the A 9 3 Q board:
Kelopuro: A Q K 7
Lamb: 6 5 4 2
River: 5
Ben Lamb
Finishing 2nd earlier in this WSOP in the 3,000 PLO event, a straight gave Lamb his first golden bracelet. The finalists can be seen below.
Only the heads-up remained to be concluded on Event Day 4 of WSOP #43 $1,500 NLHE: Andre Akkari and Nachman Berlin sat back to the final table. After both doubling up more than once, Akkari had a 5:1 lead over Berlin when dealt into the last hand. They shoved preflop:
Berlin: A 8
Akkari: K J
Board: K Q 3 K 5
Akkari won his first (and Brazil’s second in 2011) WSOP bracelet with a three of a kind. Check out the results below.
WSOP Event #44 $2,500 Seven Card Razz was concluded on Event Day 4 with the heads-up, played by WSOP 2008 $1,500 Short-handed NLHE champion Rep Porter and Stephen Su. In the last hand of the 2 hours long session, Su all-in called with his remaining 300,000:
Su: 3-2 / A-4-T-K / Q
Porter: 6-9 / 8-8-2-Q / 4
Rep Porter
Porter won his second bracelet with a 9-low. The results are as follows:
21 players returned on Day 3 of the $1,000 NLHE event (WSOP #45). Although grinders like Antonio Esfandiari could be found even in the 9-handed final table, eventually Kenneth Griffin and Jean Luc Marais played heads-up. After folding several times, Marais shoved in the last hand and Griffin insta-called:
Griffin: A A
Marais: K 6
The neutral board helped Griffin to his first WSOP bracelet ever. You can see the results below:
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