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Max Greenwood hangs on to win first WSOP bracelet at $1,000 NL Holdem event with rebuys
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2008-06-29 14:50
Event #44 had a final table made up of 9 extremely bracelet-hungry participants: the WSOP gold count amongst them had been a solid 0, before the final day kicked off.
At the end of the day, Max Greenwood of Canada would be the lucky one to have secured his first ever WSOP bracelet together with a $693,444 prize, despite the fact that he had nearly been railed in 3rd place by Rene Mouritsen and Albert Iversen before his breakthrough.
Jesse Chinni had been the chip leader going into the final table, on a stack of 2,160,000 chips, followed by Rene Mouritsen with 1,007,000 and Albert Iversen with 921,000.
The short-stack had been Aliksandr Dzianisau from Belarus with 186,000 chips.
Alex Bolotin, from New York was the first one to bust out. He’d made 3 other final tables this year, but this wasn’t going to be one of his better finishes. He busted out in 9th at the hands of Albert Iversen who had his A,K trapped on a flop+turn of A,6,10,7, with his A,10. As the river only brought about a 9, Bolotin headed to the rail with a prize of $63,183.
Phung Ngo got knocked out next by Max Greenwood, followed soon by Curtis Kohlberg in 7th, and Aliksandr Dzianisau in 6th.
Start-of-the-day chip-leader, Jesse Chinni, gave Mouritsen a huge boost when he gave him all his chips to exit 5th. It was one of those classic A,A vs A,K battles that failed to improve with the board, giving the pot to the rockets-man.
Having suddenly landed in the driver’s seat, Rene Mouritsen quickly took one more guy out: Scott Freeman who went all-in on his A,7 of diamonds only to be called by Mouritsen’s A,K of hearts. Mouritsen looked unstoppable at this stage, but he soon ran into a rock-wall called Max Greenwood. The latter doubled up on him twice, and soon made up the chip-count gap separating him from the two Danes.
Mouritasen took Iversen out in 3rd, and thus the stage was set for a heads-up showdown between him and Greenwood.
The battle lasted but 23 hands, with Greenwood winning 8 out of the last 10 to bust Mouritsen.
The final hand was a K,J of hearts on Mouritsen’s part against Max’s A,J. The board brought a J and the turn and the river failed to change anything, thus Greenwood found himself the deserving winner of his first WSOP bracelet and a substantial cash-prize.
