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WPT Foxwoods – Cornel Cimpan secures second title
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2009-11-12 02:02
The PokerStars sponsored World Poker Tour’s Foxwoods stop is over, and Cornel Andrew Cimpan has secured his second
PokerStars WPT title, together with a handsome prize of $910,058. The final table consisted of some pretty tough competition, and getting past those guys was by no means a walk in the park for Cimpan.
The final table action started off with an elimination. On barely the second hand of the final table, Lee Markholt found the path to the rail, at the hands of Matt Stout. In a battle of the late positions, Stout fired out a raise from the cut-off and Markholt shoved all-in in response from the button, holding an A,Ko. Stout called his all-in with As, 6s and the race for Markholt's poker tournament life was on. The flop brought bad news for Markholt as it gave Stout a 4-card flush. The 5c on the turn was safe for Markholt but the 3s on the river ended his poker tournament.
Curt Kohlberg was the next victim of the attrition. Only 20 hands after Markholt’s elimination, he too packed up and left the arena following a whooper of a bad beat he took from Soheil Shamseddin. Shamseddin’s pocket 2s went on to catch a set on the river, cracking Kohlberg’s flopped two pair.
Shamseddin then proceeded to bounce Eric Froelich too, getting it all-in on another small pocket pair: this time he had pocket 4s. Froelich had A,K but the coin-flip failed to tilt things his way.
Reminiscent of
online poker tournaments, Shamseddin’s lucky run continued after Froelich’s elimination, this time at the expense of Matt Stout. Stout got crippled by him when his K-high flush was cracked by Shamseddin’s rivered boat. Stout did try to fight back, but his remaining stack wasn’t giving him enough support. He eventually succumbed in 3rd place to Shamseddin’s trip aces.
All these eliminations offered Shamseddin a healthy chip advantage going into the heads-up stage of the game against Cornel Cimpan. He failed to build on this advantage though and after a prolonged heads-up bout he was eliminated in second, for $463,332.
The final hand of the event saw Cimpan’s A,J go up against Shamseddin’s K,J. The board did nothing to alter the match-up in any way, and Cimpan raised his arms in victory, pocketing the close to $1 million prize.
