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2012 PCA High Roller – Leonid Bilokur Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2012-01-17 07:07
Leonid Bilokur, the eventual winner of the
2012 PCA’s $25k High Roller event started the final table 4th in chips. He made the wise choice to stay out of harm’s way early on, letting the short-stacks duke it out for their tournament lives. Randy Lew was the official short stack of the final table and he did indeed cause some mayhem early on by doubling up twice. Eventually, he was forced to admit defeat though, becoming the first victim of the final table when his A,Ko fell to Jason Koon’s pocket rockets.
Michael Telker had a tough time at the final table. He failed to get anything going for most of the day and when he eventually picked up a decent hand, it all blew up in his face, sending him right to the rail. He shoved his last chips into the middle on a Kh,Qh, only to be called by Nicolas Fierro with pocket 10s. The board gave Fierro another 10 for the set and Telker was done.
Fierro didn’t stop there. He bounced Govert Metaal next, with pocket Ks over some measly Ad, 2d.
Despite Fierro’s heroics, Bilokur was the one with the chip lead firmly in his grip when dinner-time came. The Russian had collected many of his chips from Koon, with whom he’d tangled before the break. In the said hand, he won a classic coin-flip with pocket Js vs Koon’s A,K.
After the dinner break, Isaac Haxton took care of Fierro, and Jonathan Duhamel disposed of Koon, whose A,4 was no match for his pocket Ks.
Haxton’s elimination in 3rd place set up the heads-up stage between Duhamel and Bilokur.
Duhamel had a huge lead over Bilokur, but he failed to get anything going throughout the heads-up stage, getting thoroughly trounced by the shorter stack. The final hand of the tournament saw Duhamel shove all-in with K,4o against Bilokur’s A,7o. The board landed two aces and the High Roller event was over.
