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WSOP APAC High Roller – Gruissem Wins
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2013-04-15 12:04
On Sunday, the $50k High Roller of the
WSOP APAC played down to its conclusion. When all was said and done, German pro Phillipp Gruissem was the one with all the chips piled up in front of him. He took home an AUD$825k prize, but he didn’t get a bracelet: the High Roller was the only bracelet-less event of the Series. Gruissem’s score was his second 6-figure haul this year.
Only 11 players returned to the tables on the last day of the
poker tournament. The field was still rife with name players at this stage. One of them was Marvin Rettenmaier, the leader of the GPI’s tournament rankings list. Rettenmaier was stuck with a short stack and since the money bubble was still not reached, he had some serious holding-out to do. Joe Hachem and Jonathan Duhamel both bit the dust well outside of the money.
Davan Tang and Kyle Cheong followed them to the rail. The final 7 would make the televised final table, but because of the nature of the event, that didn’t mean that they were all guaranteed a money finish. As a matter of fact, the start of the televised final table meant the onset of the money-bubble. Marvin Rettenmaier had held out heroically up to that point in the event, but the time for him to put his tournament life onto the line was nigh.
He pushed all-in with an As, Ks against Joseph Cheong’s Jh, 8h. The turn gave Cheong a straight and Rettenmaier was done, worse still, with his elimination, the money-bubble burst, meaning that he was the last player to head home empty-handed.
In the end, Gruissem and Cheong made it to the heads-up stage. The German had to pull out a come-from-behind move, but ultimately, he was the one who prevailed.
