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WSOPE Event #1 final table report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2008-09-24 10:22
The final table of the £1,500 NL Holdem event saw the short-stacks dart to victory overcoming all the odds and making poker history. Danish poker pro Jesper Hougaard was 8th on the chip leader board before the start of the final table action, but at the end of the day, he would be the one to stand triumphant having earned a piece of WSOP gold as well as a prize of £114,218. The action began in earnest and it only took 2 orbits for the first elimination to come by. Daniel Nut moved all-in on a Kc,Qc against Yevgeniy Timoshenko’s 9,9. The board brought no improvement for Nutt, and thus he soon headed for the rail in possession of a £13,222 prize for his 9th place.
Ian Woodley was the next to bust out. He went all-in on his A,Q, only to be called by Jesper Hougaard’s 6,6. The coin-flip went Hougaard’s way and Woodley failed to improve with the board.
Seventh place went to Linda Lee, who ran her K,5 into Fuad Serhan’s Qd,9d and then watched in dismay as a Q landed on the flop. She took down a prize of £22.448.
Adam Junglen, the absolute chip leader over the first and the second day, busted out in a rather surprising 6th place. First he ran his A,Q into Neil Channing’s A,K and doubled him up when the board failed to improve either of them. Then, he shoved all-in against John Dwyer, in a 5,5 vs Ac,5c match-up in which the board once again failed to come through for him. He did land the A on the flop, but the 5 on the turn sealed his fate.
Dwyer fell 5th, as he shoved all-in on a pair of 5s against Timoshenko’s K,K.
Jesper Hougaard took matters into hand next, as he managed to get Timoshenko to call his all-in pitting his 4,4 against Hougaard’s AdJd. The flop landed an A and Timoshenko was done for the day.
Serhan, who started the final table in 9th position managed to wrestle his way up all the way to 2nd place, though the heads-up play in which he faced Hougaard lasted for only 5 hands. Hougaard went all-in against Serhan’s raise, showing Ad,Jd against Serhan’s Ac,Kc. The flop landed all diamonds though, and Hougaard sealed his win, taking home the first prize and the much-coveted golden bracelet.
