20 Hour Final Table Ends with David Bach Coming out on Top

Posted by pokerguru on July 2, 2009

In what has to go down as one of the greatest final tables and heads-up matches in WSOP history, David Bach finally ended the tournament at 10:00am Tuesday morning. It took 13 hours to get down to the final two and then an incredible 7 hours of heads-up play before we could crown a winner. If you read some of the earlier posts, we had touted Bach because of his superior 7 card stud play and that is exactly what enabled him to chip away at Hanson’s stack. Bach wins a monstrous $1,276,802 for the win and one of the most prestigious bracelets of the year.

In other tournaments…

While the talk of the day was the $50k H.O.R.S.E. tournament, once could not overlook the bracelet that was won by Abe Mosseri in the Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em Event. Once the event went to heads-up, he used timely aggression again and again on Masayoshi Tanaka and continued to grind away at his stack. By the time the last hand was dealt, Tanaka had the equivalent of a bb gun in the middle if Iraq. He can console himself with the $102,313 he takes home for second place. Abe fattens his bank account with a healthy $166,151.

There will be one more bracelet awarded tonight in Event 54. This one will go until late (or early depending upon how you look at it) in the morning as there are still 6 players holding onto chips and each and every one of them has over 1,000,000. Sergey Konkin holds the chip lead with 3,500,000.

The last event that is going on is Event 56. Lots of action in this one as it is a 6 handed tournament. A fat $1,003,218 first place prize awaits the winner and the way it looks now, we just may have a big name pro sneak through and snatch one. David Chiu, Shaun Deeb and Phil Hellmuth are all still alive. The overall chip leader is Matthew Waxman with 1,150,000 in chips.

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Tags: 7 Card Stud, Abe Mosseri, Chips, David Bach, David Chiu, H.O.R.S.E., Masayoshi Tanaka, Matthew Waxman, Phil Hellmuth, Sergey Konkin, Shaun Deeb, Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em Event, WSOP

Doyle Brunson Goes After Number 11

Posted by pokerguru on June 22, 2009

doyle-brunson Since the poker boom of 2005, Doyle Brunson has not faired very well in WSOP tournaments. He has only cashed 6 times since his last bracelet win and has only one final table to his credit. The multi-day format and are not an old man’s game anymore and while he has continued to dominate on the cash tables, the tournament would has passed him by. However, Doyle has been making some noise and is sitting pretty in third place overall in the Seven Card Stud Championship.

This table is actually loaded with talent as Scotty Nguyen, Jeff Lisasandro and Lyle Berman are all still loaded for bear in what should be a great final day. Abe Mosseri managed to hold onto his chip lead for one more day, but the odds are against him holding off this talented field. There are only 12 players remaining and you know every person in the room is going to be pulling for Big Papa.

Event 36 missed making the final table by 8 players. This tournament appeared as though it was on a good pace to continue down, but the brakes were hit as the money started growing and play has once again come to a grinding halt forcing the final table to play a much longer day than anticipated. Corwin Cole is the most experienced player at the table with a whopping 4 WSOP cashes, but Steven Tabb is holding the lead with just over a million chips in his stack.

Event 38 kicked off on Friday and it still has a mountain of players remaining. Phil Hellmuth made an early run as did Kid Poker, but both are nowhere to be seen on the leader board now. The overall leader is David Baker with 72,100 in chips.

There are two more events kicking off on Saturday and you can expect to see a monster field in Event 39. With only one event going yesterday, players may be a little antsy, well rested and looking for action. The second tournament of the day will be the World Championship of Pot Limit Omaha. The $10,000 buy in assures us of two things: a small field and a lot or professionals. Expect to see Negreanue, Ivey, Clements and several other big names to made a deep run in this tournaments.