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WSOPC Indiana - Samuel Oberlin wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2008-10-17 17:24
The last day of the WSOP’s Southern Indiana Circuit Main Event saw the remaining 9 players do battle at the final table.
The participants were: Samuel Oberlin (with 229,500 chips), Jamin Stokes (with 189,500), David Kopacz (with 151,000), Len Ashby (with 177,000), Jerry Martin (139,500), Joey Couden (128,000), Derek Whelan (with 117,500), Dean Schultz (114,000) and the short-stack, Ray Lynn (17,500).
Ray Lynn, the micro-stack was the busiest after the start of the hostilities and managed a quick triple up. The problem with an extremely short stack is however that one needs to get lucky several times in a row to get back into the game, and Lynn failed to achieve that.
Looking to further boost his stack, he got all-in with a K,Q against Joey Couden’s A,Q. The board did land a pair of 5s but that didn’t influence the result as Couden won by virtue of his high-card.
Dean Shultz was the next one to head to the rail as his elimination started an avalanche of bust outs.
Jamin Stokes was quick to go all-in preflop on a pair of 10s, but his enthusiasm would probably have been much tempered had he known about the K,K David Kopacz was saving for him.
The board brought along another K to make things worse for Stokes, who got eliminated in 6th place.
It was Joey Couden’s turn to head for the payout queue in 5th place when he ran his pocket rockets against a set of 5s Len Ashby had made on the flop.
Ashby’s joy was short-lived though, as he would be the one to fall next. He went all-in on the flop on an open-ended straight draw, against Jerry Martin’s top pair. Needless to say, the river didn’t fill his straight up, and thus he too was eliminated.
Jerry Martin took out David Kopacz next to head into the heads-up with Samuel Oberlin.
The heads-up stage started extremely well for Oberlin, who was lucky enough to pick up pocket queens on one occasion, a hand on which he promptly doubled up and knocked Martin out. Martin did make top pair on the flop, but Oberlin’s overpair was in better shape.
The winner pocketed the $143,064 prize, as well as a ring and an entry to next year’s WSOP Big Dance.
