WSOP Event #33 - Max Steinberg Wins His First Bracelet

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2012. June 20. |

14 players remained at the start of WSOP Event #33 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em, day 3. Vitaly Meshcheriakov was in the lead with 946,000 chips. The nine-handed final table started at the 23rd blind level (3,000/10,000/20,000).

Chair 1. Vitaly Meshcheriakov – 564,000

Chair 2. Samuel Gerber – 1,028,000

Chair 3. Joseph Marzicola – 1,783,000

Chair 4. Max Steinberg – 1,012,000

Chair 5. Ryan Laplante – 731,000

Chair 6. Dylan Hortin – 1,268,000

Chair 7. Matt Stout – 367,000

Chair 8. Christopher Shaw – 776,000

Chair 9. David Nicholson – 869,000

First to leave was Christopher Shaw. Surprisingly, Meshcheriakov had to go next. He went all-in against Samuel Gerber pre-flop with {#}

K, and although an Ace fell on the river, it wasn't enough against Gerber's {#}

6, which made a flush with the same card.

Ryan Laplante finished 7th, David Nicholson took 6th place, and was followed by Joseph Marzicola and Dylan Hortin in fifth and fourth place.

Max Steinberg - 4,160,000

Samuel Gerber - 2,820,000

Matt Stout - 1,950,000

Gerber fell back considerably by the 29th blind level (10,000/40,000/80,000), but managed to double up three times on Matt Stout, the best-known player at the final table. Gerber won with Q-T vs. Q-7, A-7 vs. J-6 and 8-8 vs. A-K. With this, Stout found himself in serious trouble.

Samuel Gerber

Stout finally went preflop all-in, which got called by Gerber, but Max Steinberg raised him out of the pot.

Stout:

Steinberg: {#}

Board:

Steinberg won with Ace high.

Samuel Gerber - 4,400,000

Max Steinberg - 4,000,000

Steinberg took the lead at the very beginning of the heads-up, and never gave it away after that. He started the last hand with 6,100,000 in chips. Steinberg limped in (30th level: 10,000/50,000/100,000), Greber checked, and the flop came {#}