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WSOP – Summary: Events #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45

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Last year's November Niner Matt Jarvis won the golden bracelet of $5,000 NLHE 6-handed (WSOP #40), cashing $808,538. He bested Justin Filtz heads-up on Event Day 4. They shoved preflop in the last hand:

Jarvis: {#}A {#}8
Filtz: {#}K {#}9

Board: {#}5 {#}3 {#}6 {#}2 {#}3

Matt Jarvis
Matt Jarvis

Jarvis earned this year’s fifth bracelet for Canada. The winners were the following:

WSOP Event 40 Final Table Winnings

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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:

WSOP Event 41 Final Table Winnings

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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
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.

WSOP Event 42 Final Table Winnings

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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 43 Final Table Winnings

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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
Rep Porter

Porter won his second bracelet with a 9-low. The results are as follows:

WSOP Event 44 Final Table Winnings

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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:

WSOP Event 45 Final Table Winnings

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