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WSOP-C Horseshoe Hammond Main Event – Day 1A
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sun, 2012-10-21 10:19
After several days of side events and smaller prize-pools, the WSOP-C’s Horseshoe Hammond Main Event finally kicked off on Friday. 835 players paid out the $1,675 buy-in. After a long and hard Day 1A flight, Mike Leah was the one who clinched the chip lead, having built up a stack of 276.1k chips.
Several “name” players were among the starters: Amanda Musumeci, Harrison Gimbel, Faraz Jaka and Isaac Baron all played. Lady Luck did none of them any favors on day 1A though: they all ended up busting out of the
poker tournament. Mike Leah on the other hand got off to a flying start and before the first break was reached, his stack had grown to 70k chips. He never looked back. Making good use of his large stack, he continued to accrue chips, and during the 12th level he broke through, taking down a massive pot after his A,Ko got the better of an opponent’s A,9o.
Nick Jivkov, the winner of a
2012 WSOP side event and the deep finisher of many a WSOP-C event too, attempted a feat rarely seen anywhere in poker circles: live multi-tabling. Jivkov was playing in the $365 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event, where he had made the final table, and decided to enter the Main Event too. His multi tabling experiment went awry when he bit the dust after he lost a classic coin-flip with his A,Ko against Dale Robinson’s pocket Ks. On the Omaha front, things turned out much better for him: he won, taking down a $16k prize.
Mukul Pahuja had a great run on Day 1A. He started off aggressively and he kept the pedal to the metal all day, finishing with 261.4k chips, second only to Leah.
