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Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II – Jeremy Ausmus Wins
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sun, 2013-04-28 07:36
The 2013 Main Event of the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza played down to a winner on Thursday. The player who grabbed the top spot and the $121.8k top prize was Jeremy Ausmus, he of October Nine fame.
The
poker tournament, which featured a $2.5k buy-in, drew a starting field of 222 players. The resulting prize-pool was a $507.7k one.
There were two day 1 flights, at the end of which Ausmus emerged with the chip lead. Jeff Madsen and Ryan Welch had decent stacks behind Ausmus as well.
Sam Cohen and Dan O’Brien were also among the players who made it to day 2.
The first important milestone of the day was the money bubble: several “name” players managed to make it past the bubble, only to fade away without advancing further in the event. Nancy Birnbaum was one of these players: she picked up $5.58k for her 24th place.
Tom Marchese made it further, but he too failed to get anywhere near the final table: his 17th place was worth $6.34k.
Once the final table was reached, all those who had made the last stretch of the event could breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that each and every one of them was guaranteed a min cash of $10.4k. At that point in the tournament, Ausmus was 4th, behind chip leader Andrew Mackenzie and two other guys.
When the three-handed stage of the action was reached though, Mackenzie was nowhere in sight: Ryan Welch dropped out in third, picking up $50.7k and setting up the heads-up stage of the action between Ali Fazeli and Jeremy Ausmus. The rest, as they say, is history: Ausmus bested Fazeli heads-up, sending him home with a consolation prize of $75.1k. While he has had a pretty decent tournament year thus far, this win was Jeremy Ausmus’ first of the year.
