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2011 WSOP – Day 30 Recap
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2011-07-02 13:18
The 30th day of the
2011 WSOP awarded a bracelet to the winner of the $2,500 Omaha 8/ Stud 8 event, Owais Ahmed. It also saw a Championship event reach its final table. Two other events burst through their money bubbles and a new event got off to its start.
21 players returned on Day 3 of the $2,500 Omaha 8/Stud 8 event to play down to the title, and sure enough that’s exactly what they accomplished. Michael Mizrachi was playing in this one and all railbirds’ eyes were on him of course. As the action ground past the dinner break, the Grinder looked like he was securing a choke-hold on the rest of the field: he’d taken a 3-1 chip lead by that stage. Scotty Nguyen and Abe Mosseri were still alive though and neither of them was about to make Mizrachi’s work any easier.
The Grinder dominated the action right down to the heads-up stage, where he squared off against Owais Ahmed. Even though he had a more than decent chip lead over Ahmed, Mizrachi failed to clinch his second bracelet. His opponent gradually fought his way back into the tournament and eventually landed the knockout blow by hitting a flush against Mizrachi’s Broadway draw and Aces up.
The championship event which reached its final table on day 30 was the $10k
NL Holdem 6-handed Championship event. 22 players showed up for this tournament, and by the middle of the day, the field had played down to the final table. Bertrand Grospellier made the final stretch, together with Chris Moorman, who had the chip lead when the final table bubble burst.
Grospellier didn’t disappoint: he made it all the way to 3-handed play, where his K,10 fell to Joe Ebanks’ pocket 8s on a board full of bricks.
Chris Moorman and Joe Ebanks were the two players who locked horns heads-up, on relatively even stacks.
Their struggle was relatively even too, right till the point when Ebanks secured a 9.8 million to 4.4 million lead over Moorman.
The 10-level rule spelled the end of the day’s hostilities, sending both players to bed with bracelet hopes.
