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PartyPoker Premier League 4 – heat 4
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2010-02-16 15:58
Phil Laak has trounced the
PartyPoker Premier League 4’s field thoroughly, sweeping the three heats in which he played and shooting to the top of the overall leader board in a more than dominant manner. The Unabomber accumulated 48 points in three heats, which is quite a performance, especially if one considers that second place man David Benyamine only has 35. If one factors in the level of competition too, the bottom line will be that we have to take out hats off to Laak who really pulled this one out with style.
JC Tran was the first victim of the 4th heat. He was followed to the rail shortly by Ian Frazer and Tony G. Vanessa Rousso was bounced next, and Luke Schwartz tangled with
online poker qualifier Giovani Safina before the dinner break. Each of the two players doubled up through the other at one point, but the battle was vilely interrupted by David Benyamine after the dinner-break, who proceeded to eliminate Safina. The classic coin flip of A,K vs 4,4 gave the win to Benyamine’s A,K to end Safina’s Poker tournament. To clean up the mess for good, Benyamine then bounced Safina’s rival, Schwartz too, who ran his A,6 into Benyamine’s pocket rockets for the bust. The money went all-in before the flop, as the Frenchman’s raise got re-raised, in response to which he shoved all-in. Schwartz made the call, but as soon as he saw the rockets, he tossed his cards onto the table and walked away. The dealer turned them over to reveal the A,6.
That elimination left Benyamine and Phil Laak to battle it out heads-up for the win. Thanks to all the eliminations he’d pulled off, Benyamine had an overwhelming chip lead going into the heads-up stage. It didn’t take Laak long to even things out though. His K,Qo outflopped Benyamine’s A,9o to double him up. The final hand of the poker tournament saw Laak commit all his chips on K,10o, against Benyamine’s A,Ko. When a player is on fire though, nothing can stop him. Laak said after the event that he felt like Isildur1 during his winning days, and the way the final played out gave him plenty of reasons to feel that way. The flop fell A,10,10 and he took the lead. The Q and the 7 on the turn and the river failed to change anything.
