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2011 WSOP – Matthew Jarvis Leads $5k NL Holdem Six-Handed Event
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2011-06-27 11:21
The 26th day of the 2011 WSOP only served up a sole bracelet, a rather shabby showing in the wake of the bracelet-shower that Day 25 had treated us to. That single bracelet went to Arkadiy Tsinis, the winner of the $1.5k NL Holdem Event. Despite the relative bracelet drought though, day 26 was business as usual. There was another bracelet which almost found an owner: that of the $5k NL Holdem Six-Handed event.
20 players returned to the tables in this one, looking to make the final table and eventually the heads-up stage. The quality of the starting field was excellent through and through, and there was no better testimony to that fact than the presence in the final 20 of “name” players like
Full Tilt Poker’s Matthew Jarvis,
PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu and
WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel.
Negreanu’s run was an extremely short one though: he became the first victim of the day, busting out in 20th place. Jonathan Duhamel fared marginally better: he made it all the way to 15th.
Justin Filtz had a huge chip lead at the start of the day and he tinkered around with his advantage skillfully: when the final table was reached, he was still the man the rest of the field would look up to.
Robert Merulla took the second largest stack into the final table stretch. Matthew Jarvis managed to make the final table too, on a relatively decent stack no less, enough to position him 4th in the provisional chip count. He maneuvered around the final table well though, and not only did he make the heads-up stage, he did so having built a huge chip lead over Filtz.
Filtz was down, but he was definitely not out. He stormed back during the early stages of the heads-up bout to take the chip lead, only to let Jarvis back into charge a few hands later. He then rushed ahead again and then Jarvis took the lead yet again. The 10-level rule put an end to the tug-of-war, postponing the hostilities for another day.
