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Roland De Wolfe wins $5,000 PL Omaha Hi/Lo event – completes “Triple Crown”
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2009-06-16 07:39
That headline probably calls for some explanations for most readers: what’s poker’s Triple Crown? Poker’s Triple Crown is a collection of WPT, EPT and WSOP titles, and Roland De Wolfe, who had had the EPT and WPT ones, just managed to add a WSOP bracelet to his personal collection, in the $5,000 PL Omaha Hi/Lo event.
This final table featured quite an illustrious field: De Wolfe had to do battle with Antony Lellouche, Andy Black, Alex Kravchenko and Scott Clements but he made a fine job of it, and when all was said and done, he became the second ever player to complete poker’s “Triple Crown” (the first one being Gavin Griffin).
The final table action kicked off with Scott Clements in the chip lead and if anyone knows how to take full advantage of such a situation, Clements has to be it. He went to work right away and eliminated Antony Lellouche in 9th place shortly after the start of the action. The money went all-in on a flop of 10c,8d,6c, and Lellouche had a draw to the nut low, while Clements had already secured the goods: the nut straight and a nut low draw.
The 10 and J which followed on the turn and the river respectively gave the entire pot to Clements and Lellouche was done.
Brett Richey took care of Armando Ruiz next, hitting Aces up against Ruiz’s rags. Ruiz took down a $32,105 prize in his first major tournament cash.
John Racener locked horns with Robert Campbell next as they both shoved all in on the flop and turn of 10,4,2,9. Campbell secured the high on the river and he marginally outdrew Racener for the low too, to scoop the pot and to send Racener to the rail in 7th place.
Andy Black fell next, followed by Alex Kravchenko in 5th. Robert Campbell managed to carry his start of the day short-stack all the way through to 4th place, where he was eliminated by the eventual winner, De Wolfe.
Scott Clements fell to De Wolfe next to set the heads-up action and to give De Wolfe a nearly 4-1 chip lead over his adversary, Brett Richey. With such a huge chip advantage, it didn’t take De Wolfe long to bully Richey out of contention and to secure the bracelet.
The final hand of the heads-up had De Wolfe’s two pair face off with Richey’s straight draw on the flop. The turn and the river failed to save Richey and he was out in second for a $152,618 prize.
