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Caesar’s Palace WSOP Circuit Event – final day report
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-05-01 14:32
The last big warm-up before the WSOP came to a conclusion the other day, with Justin Bonomo having come from behind to take the win and the $237,697 first prize.
Day 3 of the WSOP’s Caesar’s Palace Circuit event saw 16 survivors return to the tables, with Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi holding the provisional chip lead.
Mizrachi wasted no time in putting his edge to work. He first eliminated Matt LaGarde, whose A,Q failed to hold up against his K,10, on a board of K,J,2,8,9.
Justin Bonomo then took over big time and sent Ian Woodley, Jeff Sluzinski and Matt Brady to the rail in quick succession.
Jeremiah DeGreef who had held the chip lead at the end of Day 1, swung into action as well and he disposed of Manuel Adel in 12th place. Robert Cheung busted out in 11th and the final 10 was set. One more elimination was needed though to set the official final table, and the ‘honor’ of final table bubble-boy befell Bert Fujisaki who ran his A,10o into Jack Schanbacher’s pocket rockets.
The proximity of the WSOP’s start date meant that there were plenty of pros gearing up for the Big Dance in the line-up, and the final table was a nice reflection of this fact: it was probably one of the toughest final tables the WSOP Circuit has ever seen.
The first to bust was Evgeny Serebryakov, sent to the rail by Justin Bonomo. Nashaat Antonious was quick to follow in 8th place. Schanbacher eliminated him after Antonious’ A,K lost the race against his pocket Js.
Schanbacher was the next one to go. He moved all-in before the flop on a pair of 7s, and got called by Bonomo with K,K.
Dwyte Pilgrim fell in 6th place at Bonomo’s hands, who built up a serious chip lead this way. Feeling the pressure mount, Mizrachi went to work and eliminated Matt Graham and Jeremiah DeGreef to make it a 3 handed game.
Men Nguyen busted out in 3rd and a grueling four hour long heads-up session ensued between Bonomo and Mizrachi. At the end of it all, it was Bonomo who stood triumphant though, his K,Q having made short work of Mizrachi’s J,9 in the final hand of the event.
