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WPT Grand Prix de Paris – Matt Salsberg Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2012-09-17 04:15
The final day of the WPT’s Grand Prix de Paris event saw 6 players belly up to the final table within the confines of the famous Aviation Club de France. Matt Salsberg started with the largest stack, but there were other competitors sitting with pretty healthy stacks too, like Mohsin Charania, who had 1.43 million chips, Theo Jorgensen with 1.1 million and Timothy Adams with 1.1 million too. Philipp Gruissem, one of the early chip leaders, was rather short-stacked, but the official short-stack of the final table was Fabian Quoss, who had a little over half a million chips left.
Jorgensen didn’t rest on his laurels when the action kicked off. He took a massive pot off Timothy Adams right away, clinching the chip lead. The hand was pretty much decided before the flop as Jorgensen had pocket rockets against Adams’ A,Ko. Despite the ongoing battles between the large stacks, the first player to bite the dust still Fabian Quoss, the final table short-stack.
Quoss picked up a K,Jo and decided to commit on it. He was called by Philipp Gruissem, who had pocket Qs. Although the board did give Quoss a pair of Js, he fell short and bit the dust in 6th place.
Mohsin Charania began chipping up too, but he took a few nasty hits and eventually he was the one who hit the rail in 5th place. He was followed to the payout booth by Adams, whose 4th place finish made him the first player in the
poker tournament to crack the 6-figure mark prize-wise.
Philipp Gruissem was the one whose elimination set up the heads-up stage of the action. Gruissem’s 3rd place was worth €170k.
Jorgensen started the heads-up bout with a slight chip lead. He immediately got to work though and began expanding his lead, to reach a 4-1 advantage at one point.
Salsberg then doubled up and he never looked back. The final hand of the event saw Salsberg’s pocket Qs beat Jorgensen’s Q,10 for the win. Salsberg picked up €400k for his efforts.
