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Greg Mueller wins $10,000 Limit Holdem World Championship event
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-06-19 07:36
After 3 days of grueling poker action and an eventful final table, Greg Mueller emerged as the winner of the $10,000 Limit Holdem World Championship event of the 2009 WSOP. Mueller bested Pat Pezzin heads-up, after having dealt with Daniel Alaei, Chad Brown and Matt Glanz at the final table. At the end of it all, Mueller struck the pose with his final two hole cards, the WSOP bracelet and a smile at least partly fuelled by the $460,836 prize he’d picked up for the win.
Day 3 of the event saw only 12 survivors return to the action, so the final table was already within grasp for everyone at that point. Jennifer Harman came to the tables on the shortest stack and soon she was to witness helplessly as the final table slipped away and 12th place became a certainty for her. Maria Ho busted out next, eliminated by Kenny Hsiung. The money went all-in on a board of 4d,Kd,10d,8c,6h, with Ho showing 9,10 against Hsiung’s K,5.
The official final table was set when Mark Klecan was eliminated in 10th place by Daniel Alaei.
Kenny Hsiung, the start of the day chip leader didn’t last long at the final table. As a matter of fact he was the fist victim, busting out in 9th place, at the hands of Daniel Alaei, after his K,Qo lost a race against Alaei’s A,8o.
Soheil Shamseddin fell in 8th place, followed by Michiel Brummelhuis in 7th. Brummelhuis was crippled by Alaei first, then ejected by Matt Glanz and Pat Pezzin in a 3-way hand.
After the dinner break, the surviving field returned to play down to the winner. Matt Glanz busted out in 6th place right after dinner, and he was soon followed to the rail by Matt Hawrilenko, whose Q,8o fell to Pat Pezzin’s Q,9.
Daniel Alaei was eliminated in 4th by Greg Mueller, after which Mueller disposed of Chad Brown too to set the stage for the heads-up play. Thanks to all the eliminations for which he had been “guilty”, Greg Mueller came into heads-up play against Pat Pezzin with the chip lead. The final hand of the event featured a flop of 2h, Kh, 3c and Pezzin took the initiative with a bet. Mueller promptly raised him and Pezzin shoved all-in in repsonse. He showed 10,8o against Mueller’s pocket 5s and as the Q and K landed on the turn and river respectively, he was done in second place.
