Seat 2. Robert Dreyfuss - 297.000
Seat 3. Scott Yelton - 167.000
Seat 4. Jess Dioquino - 921.000
Seat 5. Eric Baldwin - 348.000
Seat 6. Tuu Ho - 419.000
Seat 7. Jason Koon - 692.000
Seat 8. Brent Hanks - 533.000
Seat 9. Amit Makhija - 1.101.000
Seat 10. Jacob Jung - 240.000
Dealing started on the 22nd blind level (2,000-8,000/16,000), with Scott Yelton as the bubble boy: He went all-in with J T against Jess Dioquino's pocket sixes, and was ultimately defeated on the dry board.
The next player to leave the table came to be this year's PCA NLHE 6-Max 3rd placer Jason Koon. Koon was extreme shortstack; he went all-in with 59,000 from MP (23rd blind level, 3,000-10,000/20,000), last year's WSOP $1,500 NLHE champion Brent Hanks 3bet to 100,000, the cutoff Amit Makhija 3bet to 200,000, Hanks went all-in, Makhija called.
Hanks: K K
Makhija: K Q
Koon: A 4
Board: 7 T 4 T J
Hanks' stack grew to 870,000, Makhija dropped o 745,000 Koon finished 9th.
The next to leave came to be Tuu Ho, Robert Dreyfuss, Jacob Jung and Hanks. In the latter hand the WSOP $1,500 NLHE champion (of 2009) Eric Baldwin went all-in from the small blind, Hanks called with 290,000 chips. Baldwin showed a pair of threes, Hanks a pair of eights, but a 3 fell on the board.
A bit later, the WPT Paris champion Matt Waxman opened to 60,000 (5,000-15,000/30,000), Makhija called from the big blind. The flop was 4s 5c 8h. Makhija checked, Waxman bet to 50,000, Makhija raised all-in, Waxman called.
Waxman: AA
Makhija: Q Q
Turn: 5
River: 4
Makhija finished 4th.
The heads-up formulated with the elimination of Dioquino, whose was defeated by Baldwin.
Matt Waxman - 3.100.000
Eric Baldwin - 2.400.000
An 8-hour heads-up battle followed. Both players took considerable chiplead several times, the players doubled up on each other quite often. The game ended on the 32nd blind level after 187 heads-up hands. Baldwin pushed all his 1,025,000 chips in from short stack, Waxman snapcalled
Baldwin: 7 4
Waxman: A 5
Board: A T 3 6 6
Waxman won the bracelet and the $305,952 with two pairs.
Matt Waxman won his first WSOP title after the WPT Paris NLHE title.
Final Results:
1. Matt Waxman - $305.952
2. Eric Baldwin - $189.200
3. Jess Dioquino - $130.825
4. Amit Makhija - $94.353
5. Brent Hanks - $68.975
6. Jacob Jung - $51.086
7. Robert Dreyfuss - $38.340
8. Tuu Ho - $29.147
9. Jason Koon - $22.435
10. Scott Yelton - $17.491
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