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Zac Fellows wins the $3,000 HORSE event
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-06-14 14:01
Day 3 of the $3,000 HORSE event of the 2009 WSOP was one of the longest final days of the series yet. There was only one man in the field to whom it may not have seemed long enough: eventual winner, Zac Fellows.
Fellows started Day 3 in the lead and he finished it like that too, a gold bracelet and $311,899 richer.
Despite the fact that it would eventually turn into one of the most grueling final tables of the 2009 WSOP, the final day of the $3,000 HORSE event kicked off well. 5 players were eliminated in the first hour alone, and things looked like they were on the right track.
Ylon Schwartz, David Baker, Brian McKain, Jared Okun and Frank Debus were these early victims. The pace of the game significantly slower, the second hour of play would only see two eliminations though: those of Chau Giang and Adam Heller.
Bill Blanda and Aaron Steury busted out next, followed to the rail by Asher Derei and Frank Cremen. Gavin Smith became the final table bubble boy, sent to the rail in 10th place.
It took nearly two hours of 9-handed final table action for the first elimination to occur. Stewart Yancik got crippled by Chris Amaral, but he then staged a comeback, doubling up through Michelle Limongi. Eventually, Zac Fellow had to step in to seal Yancik’s fate in a Holdem round and to send him packing in 9th.
Matt Hawrilenko busted out next, followed to the rail by Gabriel Nassif, who fell victim to Chris Amaral.
6-handed play dragged on for a while, and soon both Zac Fellows and Martin Eikeng found themselves on life support. They both clawed their way back though, both of them in Stud rounds. The two of them then tangled in a Stud round which resulted in Eikeng’s elimination. That move put Fellows back in contention.
Michelle Limongi was the next player to leave the final table, eliminated by James Van Alstyne in a Stud Hi/Lo round in which Alstyne ended up scooping the pot.
Timothy Finne got sent home in 3rd to set the heads-up stage of the tournament. Alstyne and Fellows were pretty closely matched as far as stack sizes were concerned at the beginning of the heads-up, but Fellows soon tipped the scales in his favor.
The final hand was a Holdem one in which Fellows’ 6,6 proceeded to hit a set to do away with Alstyne’s A,5o.
