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2014 WSOP November Nine: Martin Jacobson Wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2014-11-12 08:56
Martin Jacobson may not be your typical poker headliner, and he may not have won a major tournament in his life, but when it truly mattered, he came through and he picked up the
2014 WSOP Main Event title, together with the $10 million in guaranteed money it came with. Jacobson’s win in the Main Event is a surprise in more ways than one…he started the final table with the second shortest stack, he came from Sweden, a country which had never yielded a WSOP Main Event winner before, and – according to many - he was way too quiet to become poker’s top ambassador. The poker gods didn’t care about any of that though. Jacobson bested Norway’s Felix Stephensen, one of the favorites for the title, to grab the $10 million guaranteed prize. The share of the runner-up was a “measly” $5.14 million.
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Nine players returned to the tables on Monday, looking to play down all the way to a champion. Jorryt van Hoof was the one who started the final table with the largest stack. He made good use of his chips as he became one of the three players who advanced into the second day of the final table. The first victim of the Monday action was Mark Newhouse from the US, whose 10th place was worth $730.7k. Newhouse was followed to the rail by Bruno Politano, whose reward tipped the scale at $947k. The first one to climb over the $1 million mark was Dan Sindelar of the US, who was bounced in 7th place and picked up $1.23 million.
Andoni Larrabe of Spain was the next one to hit the rail. His reward was $1.62 million. Billy Pappas and William Tonking, both of the US, were the last two players to bite the dust on Monday. They collected $2.1- and $2.8 million for their efforts respectively.
At the start of the home dash, van Hoof still had the lead, but he became the first one to bite the dust nonetheless. His third place haul was worth $3.8 million. The heads-up action saw Jacobson start with a massive chip lead over his opponent. He managed to conserve his advantage and having ground his opponent down some more, he eventually got him all-in. The last hand of the poker tournament saw Jacobson’s pocket 10s triumph over Stephensen’s Ah, 9h, after they made a set on the flop.
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