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.