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2015 November Nine - Joe McKeehen Wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2015-11-11 06:47
The 2015 edition of the
WSOP Main Event is in the books and the winner is - as anticipated by everyone and backed-up by pre-November Nine odds - Joe McKeehen. McKeehen entered the final table with twice as many chips as the nearest stack and he cooked up a plan during the break, to which he stuck all through the November Nine showdown. His massive stack handed him the weapon of aggression, which he wielded skillfully through the three days of the final table. During the first day, he was the one responsible for sending every one of the 3 victims to the rail and he scored an elimination on Day 2 as well.
When the three-handed stage of the action commenced, McKeehen had 3.21 times more chips than the second-place man, so to call his performance dominant at this stage would probably have been an understatement.
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The other two players who returned to the table at the beginning of Day 3 were Neil Blumenfield and Josh Beckley, and for them, it was sort of understood that they would in fact be playing for second place. Blumenfield was the first one to take a big hit to his stack and he failed to bounce back. He got sent to the rail when his pocket deuces fell to McKeehen's pocket Qs.
The start of the heads-up action saw Beckley's stack of 37 million go up against McKeehen's 155.65 million. In addition to that, McKeehen was the one who won the first three hands of the heads-up confrontation. Eventually, down to 19.4 million, Beckley committed on pocket 4s against McKeehen's A,10o. A 10 fell on the flop and Beckley had to settle for $4.47 million. McKeehen's share of the action was $7.7 million.
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