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2011 WSOP – Sean Getzwiller Wins $1k NL Holdem Event
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2011-06-10 04:42
Day 9 of the
2011 WSOP was a rather eventful one. 2 bracelets were awarded: one to the winner of the first $1k NL Holdem event of the series, Sean Getzwiller, and the other to Geffrey Klein, who won the $1,500 NL Holdem 6-max event.
There was plenty of other action too: events getting started and others playing down to the final stretch, but more on that later.
Event #8, the $1k
NL Holdem event, which attracted a massive starting field spread over 2 day 1 flights, had played down to the final 3 on Day 8 of the Series. The player who had held an apparently insurmountable chip lead at one point, Jon Turner, had slipped to short-stack status at the end of Day 8 but he managed to survive nonetheless, making the top 3. The other two players to return to action on Day 9 were chip leader Sadan Turker and Sean Getzwiller.
Under pressure to chip up fast, Jon Turner wasted little time getting his chips into the middle as soon as he picked up a pair of 8s. Turker called him with Q,4o and the race was on. The flop of A,2,J left Turner in the lead, but the Q on the turn changed everything. The river didn’t bring another 8 to bail him out and he was bounced in 3rd place.
The heads-up stage of the event proved to be a marathon of a battle, neither side ready to get up from the table without the gold bracelet. Eventually, after about 6 hours of back and forth, Getzwiller took a bit of a lead. The final hand came when Turker picked up an A,9 and shoved all-in on it. Getzwiller made the call with 5,5 and the coin-flip was on. The flop fell J,5,4 giving Getzwiller a set and sealing the fate of the title and the top prize.
