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2011 WSOP – Marsha Wolak Wins Ladies $1k Championship Event
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2011-07-06 03:13
The 34th day of the 2011 WSOP was responsible for a single bracelet: the one awarded by the $1k Ladies’ Championship event, which landed in Marsha Wolak’s possession. Besides the awarding of the bracelet, the highlight of the day was the first man ever to make a final table in a Ladies’ WSOP event: Jonathan Epstein.
14 players returned on the final day of the Ladies’ $1k Championship Event, among them, there was a male player too, much to the dismay of the heavily gender-biased rail.
The only pro who returned to action on the final day was Karina Jett. She was one of the short-stacks at the beginning of the day. The chip leader was Carol Tomlinson.
Once the field played down to the final table, it became obvious that it had just managed to set a record, albeit one that nobody but one person at the final table was proud of: Epstein had managed to achieve what no other man had before him: he made the final table of a ladies’ only
WSOP event.
His joy was short-lived though: he became the first victim of the final table. Marsha Wolak was the one who bounced him, earning huge cheers from the rail. Wolak’s pocket 10s had to face a whole bunch of outs that Epstein’s Ad, Qd generated on the board, but she pulled it off.
Three handed play came down to Karina Jett, Wolak and Tomlinson. The start of the day chip leader was the one who eventually succumbed to the pressure, thus setting up the heads-up stage.
Wolak had a huge chip lead going into the heads-up stage. Sure enough, as it turned out, there wouldn’t be much of a heads-up stage to talk about at all. The chips went into the middle from both sides on the very first hand. Wolak had a top pair and a straight draw against Jett’s open-ended straight draw. The turned filled Wolak’s straight, giving her the bracelet and the $192k prize.
