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Richard Austin wins $5,000 PL Omaha bracelet
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2009-06-23 05:05
Richard Austin skipped the heads-up stage of the $5,000 PL Omaha event of the 2009 WSOP, to knock two players out in one hand and to grab the bracelet without having to stare down a single opponent in the final stretch.
11 players returned to the tables of the $5,000 PL Omaha event, among them Sorel Mizzi (who had the chip lead at that point) Rifat Palevic and Cliff Josephy.
The final whistle would see one player standing though, Richard Austin, with a gold bracelet in hand and a $409,484 prize in his pocket.
The first victim of the final day was Jepp Nielsen, who got all his money in preflop against Cliff Josephy on his Ac,Kd,3d,2s . Josephy tabled Ad,Ah,Kh,3h for the early lead. The board bricked out and Nielsen was done in 11th place.
The final table was set after a confrontation between Isaac Baron and Richard Austin. Baron was the one who pushed all-in on A,J,10,8 and got called by Austin who had the early edge with his K,K,9,6.
The flop fell K,Q,4 and Austin extended his lead by hitting a set. Baron had picked up some outs as well, but the 8 on the turn and the Q on the river which gave Austin a boat, sealed his fate.
Baron’s elimination meant that the official final table had been set, with Cliff Josephy holding a marginal chip advantage over Rifat Palevic. Samuel Ngai was the short-stack, and sure enough, he became the first to be eliminated from the final table, Van Marcus the one responsible for his demise.
Richard Austin went to work next, Peter Jetten his target. Austin’s set of 10s sent Jetten home in 8th, in possession of a $48,112 prize.
Van Marcus ran his pocket kings into Cliff Josephy’s pocket Aces next, to finish his final table run in 7th place.
Sorel Mizzi scored several big pots and disposed of Felipe Ramos in 6th place to take the chip lead at one point. Rifat Palevic was amongst those who’d contributed to Mizzi’s rise and left crippled, he failed to string anything together afterwards. He eventually faded away in 5th place, at the hands of Richard Austin.
Dan Hindin fell next in 4th before Sorel Mizzi started losing his chip lead. The final hand of the event featured a 3-way pot, in which the money was shoved all-in on the flop of K,9,3. Mizzi made the move on A,A,5,3 vs Josephy’s A,K,K,8 and Austin’s Q,J,8,5. The turn was the 8s and the river fell the 7c to complete Austin’s flush and to give him the title without dragging him through a heads-up stage.
