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Michael Eise wins $1,500 NL Holdem event (#28)
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2009-06-16 14:57
Day 3 of event #28, a $1,500 NL Holdem one, saw a field of 27 players belly up to the table, chip stacks in check and eyes on the prize.
At the end of the day though there could be a single winner and that winner was Mike Eise who pocketed the $639,331 first prize and the 28th bracelet of the 2009 WSOP.
Joe Simmons began the day as the chip leader with over a million chips, followed by Jason Potter with nearly as much. By the time the final table was reached though, the chip lead was in Eise’s possession.
Adam Lippert was the very first elimination of the day, followed to the rail by Fouad El-Adli, Garry Wright and Joseph Samanek shortly.
Shoaib Makani trusted his tournament life to a pair of 8s he’d picked up, unfortunately for him, Mike Eise called him with A,10 and sure enough spiked an A on the turn to send him packing too.
Jim Coyle ran his pocket 8s into Eise next, who had Ah,Kh this time to send him packing, having outdrawn him. The short stacked Fred Louie picked up a pair of rockets which looked like redemption itself at the time, but he had them cracked by Rico Ramirez’s K,Qo which made a straight. Drew Daniels was eliminated next.
Joey Brattole became the final table bubble boy eliminated by Mike Eise himself on a Kh, Qh vs 7,3o match-up which remained unaltered by the board.
This elimination offered Eise the chip lead going into the final table, an advantage which he would go on to put to great use.
Mike Zulker got crippled by Eise first and then eliminated by Jason Potter in 9th.
Eise’s control over the final table action seemed to slip away when he dropped a huge pot to Rico Ramirez, whose pocket Qs held up against his A,K.
Jose Luis Franco left the final table in 8th place, followed by Avi Braz in 7th. Zack Fritz headed to the rail in 6th, and Barry Berger picked up $139,353 for his 5th place finish.
Jason Potter fell in 4th and Rico Ramirez gave Eise all his previously taken chips back, when he was eliminated in 3rd.
Eise headed into heads-up play with a huge chip advantage. The final hand featured a flop of 3,6,3 on which Eise wasted no time to put his opponent under pressure. Jeff Chang called his all-in with A,Jo, well ahead of Eise’s 8,7o. A 7 on the turn though gave Eise a pair and the 5 on the river failed to rescue Chang who was thus eliminated in second.
