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WPT Vienna – Morten Christensen Wins
Posted by: Jo Martin - Tue, 2012-04-17 11:25
6 players returned on the final day of the WPT’s Vienna Main Event to play down to a winner on Sunday. Ognjen Sekularac started the day with the largest stack, however, the winner who emerged in the end was Denmark’s Morten Christensen, who ended up taking home €313,390 for his efforts. Christensen began the day second in chips, so he wasn’t in a bad position to begin with. Goswin Siemsen, one of the previous days’ chip leaders, was the official short-stack of the final table. Despite starting the final dash with only 875k chips to his name, Siemsen wasn’t the first one to bite the dust. That ‘honor’ befell Norbert Szecsi, who found it impossible to cling to his tournament life after a seemingly endless give and take at the start of the hostilities. Szecsi was bounced by Ben Wilinofsky, whose Kd,Jd made an A-high diamond flush against his opponent’s pocket Qs.
Siemsen, the short-stack, found himself under pressure next. Konstantin Tolokno got his chips into the middle against him on an A,10 vs A,Q match-up. Even though he held the initial advantage in the hand, Siemsen busted out when a 10 fell on the flop.
4-handed play continued for quite a while. After a few hours of back and forth, two players were eliminated almost simultaneously: Wilinofsky and Sekularac were the two unlucky ones. Sekularac was the first one to hit the rail. He got his last chips into the middle on an Ah, Jh against Konstantin Tolokno’s A,Qo. The board brought a bunch of bricks and Sekularac was out. Wilinofsky followed him to the rail a couple of minutes later. Christensen hit a 4-card flush on the flop and got it all-in. He was called by Wilinofsky, who had a 10,9o for a straight draw. The turn filled Christensen’s flush and the heads-up stage was set.
Down to the final stretch, Christensen had a massive lead on Tolokno and he took full advantage of it, steamrolling his opponent out of the way.
The final hand of the
poker tournament saw Christensen’s Ah, 8h best Tolokno’s Ks, 8s.
