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Freddie Ellis wins $10,000 7-Card Stud Event (event #6)
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-06-05 05:34
Event #6 of the 2009
WSOP, the $10,000 7-Card Stud one, featured one of the hardest fought-over gold bracelets in this year’s series so far. Day 2 was an endurance contest in its own right, and day 3 turned into one too as the final table hostilities dragged on well past midnight.
When the dust settled, it was Freddie Ellis, a Stud expert from the East coast who secured the top spot, the bracelet and the $373,744 prize, not to mention the bragging rights.
Day 3 saw 11 players return to action, with Eric Drache holding the chip lead. Max Pescatori drew first blood when he eliminated Ray Dehkharghani in 11th place. The two players shoved all in on 6th street, and Pescatori turned over Kc, Jc to make a flush. Dehkharghani had Ah, Jh in the pocket for the nut flush draw, but 7th street failed to give him another heart to complete his hand.
Eric Drache took a huge pot from Daniel Negreanu to set him up for the elimination. His back against the wall, Negreanu eventually got all his chips in against Tim Phan and made a pair of 10s. Phan had been well ahead from the start with his K,K but he made a set of Ks on 7th street just to make things clear.
A nine-handed final table was set with Negreanu’s departure, but the pressure on the deck (Stud requires a high number of cards) didn’t last long as Jeff Lisandro made a quick exit at the hands of Ville Wahlbeck and Greg Mueller.
The pace of the action slowed a little after Lisandro left, and it took Tim Phan quite some time to hit the rail. His elimination started an avalanche, as Greg Mueller and Hasan Habib were quick to follow him to the payout booth. Ivan Schertzer fell next when his pocket K,K fell to Eric Drache’s pocket rockets and pair of fives made on 6th and 7th streets.
Hasan Habib was eliminated after the dinner break by Drache. Max Pescatori fell to Ville Wahlbeck next.
Wahlbeck succumbed to Drache, to set the heads-up stage between Ellis and Drache. Ellis started heads-up play in the chip lead, but Drache soon pried from him. After several hours of back and forth, which began to take their toll on Ellis, the elderly Stud specialist recaptured the chip lead and drove it home, eliminating Drache by hitting a flush on the final street of the final hand.
