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PokerNews Cup Main Event: final day report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2008-10-22 11:00
The four days of poker hostilities that the PokerNews Cup Main Event consisted of, saw some of the world’s biggest name pros belly up to the table and bust out on occasion. Out of a field of roughly 300 registrants, only 9 were present this day at the final table, and it would take quite a bit of warmongering until a conclusion was reached.
The final table participants were: David Gorr – the chip leader with 1,616,000 chips, Nali Kaselias with 1,530,000 chips, Martin Comer with 1,333,000, Ray Sukkar with 1,152,000, Grant Levy with 574,000, Tim Heath with 566,000, James Broom with 551,000, David Lee with 503,000 and Kenneth Dam with 384,000.
Because there wasn’t really a micro-stack at the table, play commenced rather cautiously and took quite a while until the first elimination came about. James Broom was the first one to make the decisive move on his 5d,8d and got one caller in Grant Levy who had A,9. The flop fell A,J,Q putting Broom seriously behind his opponent and neither the turn not the river could save him.
The joy over this pot wouldn’t last long for Levy though, as he’d be the very next to bust out. He shoved all-in from the cut-off with K,Q, and was called by Ray Sukkar with pocket rockets. The board only brought a bunch of blanks, and thus Levy found himself sent to the rail. David Gorr (the early chip leader) was eliminated in 7th place, followed by Tim Heath in 6th who also fell at the hands of Ray Sukkar.
Martin Comer fell 5th when his Ks,Js ran into Nali Kaselias’ pair of 8s and failed to improve with the board.
Sukkar busted out in 4th, followed by David Lee in 3rd, who ran his 3,3 into Nali Kaselias’ pocket Queens.
The heads-up play between Kaselias and Damm started on fairly equal footings, but it didn’t take the former long to tip the scale in his favor and to eventually put Damm away on a A,J vs K,9 match-up.
The first place finish was worth $250,000 and a championship trophy. Damm took down a $120,000 prize for his second place finish.
