The unofficial final table seat draw was as follows:
Seat 1: Dario Alioto – 230,000
Seat 2: Michael Malm – 525,000
Seat 3: Steven Wolansky – 715,000
Seat 4: Eric Crain – 490,000
Seat 5: Michael Hurey - 295,000
Seat 6: Travis Pearson – 130,000
Seat 7: Marco Johnson – 90,000
Seat 8: Mike Wattel – 73,000
Seat 9: Greg Mueller – 325,000
With the elimination of WSOP 2011 $2,500 10 Game/6-Handed 3rd finisher Travis Pearson, the official finale was set. He went pre-flop all-in in a NLHE hand with pocket tens and ran into Eric Crain’s A-K on a board that improved the latter’s hand to a straight.
With three heads-ups behind his back, Marco Johnson was eager to grab a bracelet this year but the cards did not favour him: in a NLHE hand, he shoved with A-K and 74,500 in chips, Mueller called and showed A-Q to get his queen on the flop.
Next out was Mike Wattel, followed by WSOPE 2007 £5,000 PLO winner Alioto, who was eliminated by Crain’s straight in an Omaha-8 hand. Michael Hurey shoved as shortstack with A-7 in a LHE hand and met Steven Wolansky’s pocket aces and the latter railed Crain as well, after a long 4-handed play and in another LHE hand. The heads-up was set with the elimination of Mueller.
Steven Wolansky – 1,900,000
Michael Malm – 1,000,000
Malm managed to come back first but Wolansky regained the lead by winning an enormous pot, enough to give him a ten times edge over Malm. The latter refused to give up, though, and crawled back to play the final hand in a major lead. In PLO, Wolansky raised to 90,000, Malm pot bet, Wolansky went all-in and Malm called.
Malm:




Wolansky:




Board:





Malm won with a flush.

Malm won last year’s PCA $1,000 NLHE - Win the Button tournament and finished 2nd in this year’s PCA $1,000 NLHE Re-Entry event. He also has a couple of WSOP ITMs and now he added $225,104 to his lifetime winnings.
The end results are as follows:
1st: Michael Malm – $225,104
2nd: Steven Wolansky – $139,034
3rd: Greg Mueller – $89,673
4th: Eric Crain – $64,975
5th: Michael Hurey – $47,771
6th: Dario Alioto – $35,634
7th: Mike Wattel – $26,966
8th: Marco Johnson – $20,699
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