 The final day of event #2 started with 18 players instead of the intended 9. That’s because, as you could have read yesterday, play went on very long at day 2, but getting down from 378 to 9 appeared to be impossible (it was already 5.30am when we got down to 18!). Amongst these 18 contenders Chris Ferguson, who miraculously survived lots of all-in situations yesterday, Jesus always seems to have the answer. Aaron Coulthard was our chipleader at the beginning of the day:
Table 14:
Seat 1: Josh Engerdahl (Abbotsford, BC) 930,000
Seat 2: Melvin Jones (Chicago, IL) 660,000
Seat 3: Mike Ngo (New Orleans, LA) 544,000
Seat 4: Grant Hinkle (Kansas City, KA) 281,000
Seat 5: Perry Friedman (Las Vegas, NV) 653,000
Seat 6: Joe Rutledge (Pasadena, TX) 486,000
Seat 7: Chris Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA) 444,000
Seat 8: David Bach (Athens, GA) 168,000
Seat 9: Frank Sinopoli (Hollywood, CA) 165,000
Table 15:
Seat 1: Eric Hicks (San Francisco, CA) 703,000
Seat 2: James Akenhead (London, UK) 1,039,000
Seat 3: Matthew Kearney 1,024,000
Seat 4: Jeff Wiedenhoeft (Whitewater, WI) 482,000
Seat 5: Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA) 600,000
Seat 6: Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV) 1,199,000 (see picture)
Seat 7: Brandon Blake (Palmer, AK) 514,000
Seat 8: Elia Ahmadian (Chantilly, VA) 171,000
Seat 9: Aaron Coulthard (Waterloo, ON) 1,327,000
After a long night of poker, with few hours of sleep, it’s always a question how well the players recovered and get influenced by fatigue. Chris Ferguson started where he left off yesterday, playing aggressively and shoving his chips, doubling up once again. An interesting hand evolved at the other table, when Matthew Kearny raises to 60.000 UTG, Jeff Wiedenhoeft moves all-in for 130.000, Aaron Coulthard moves all-in over the top from the small blind and it gets back to Kearney, who calls all-in. The players show their cards: Kearney: [kd][qh], Wiedenhoeft: [kh][th], Coulthard:   . An interesting board made sure the worst hand won:      made a full house for Wiedenhoeft. Coulthard picked up the sidepot with his straight and Kearney is out in 15th place.
Minh Nguyen didn’t go any further than 12th place, when his   ran into the pocket queens of James Akenhead. Jeff Wiedenhoeft was the last one to go before the final table, his KTo didn’t suck out on Mike Ngo’s ATo. This means the final table contains:
James Akenhead
Theo Tran
Mike Ngo
Aaron Coulthard
Grant Hinkle
Chris Ferguson
David Bach
Joe Routledge
Melvin Jones Joe Routledge was the first to go, in a classic coinflip (A9 vs 66) he lost to Chris Ferguson. Former chipleader David Bach is the next one to go, when he moves all-in on the turn with a double gutshot straigthdraw, he gets called by Theo Tran, with Chris Ferguson behind him. Ferguson folds and Tran shows a second pair with his J9s (9 hit the flop). No help on the river and Bach is out. When Melvin Jones open-shoves with QTs, he runs into the pocket aces of Theo Tran and gets knocked out 7th.
It’s getting late, already past midnight after having to play 16 hours yesterday, and they’re getting closer and closer to the decision. With Grant Hinkle being the chipleader, Aaron Coulthard decides to move all-in against the raise of Akenhead. When they show their cards, he knows he’s far behind, with KJo vs AKs. No help and Coulthard is out 6th. Not much after that, it’s Mike Ngo’s time to go. With his AKo against the AJo of Grant Hinkle he’s happy to get his money in, but unfortunately for him, the river brought a  and Ngo can go now. When Theo Tran thinks he’s slowplaying Grant Hinkle, he’s actually the one being slowplayed. With Tran’s  flopping top pair at a  board, he’s just check-calling. When the turn brings another ace, he’s sure he’s got the best hand, and Tran check-calls the all-in from Hinkle, but Hinkle shows his   and Theo Tran is back home, probably to get some sleep.
 At this point Grant Hinkle has over 9 million of the 12 million chips in play, with Chris Ferguson being the shortstack with just 500k. Not much after that he triples up, and doubles up again! Gaining 2.6 million chips he’s back on track, until he moves all-in with   , being called by James Akenhead with . This time, there are no more lives left for Jesus and it’s game over for him, finishing 3rd in this massive field!
At this point we’re heads-up, with Akenhead having a stack of 4.5million and Hinkle settling for about 7.5mln. For both players this will be their biggest cash of their carreer for sure. Hinkle doesn’t have any records of cashing in any event before, he’s actually playing his first decent tournament. Akenhead’s biggest cash is $44,290 so far. He’ll at least do 11 times that today!
About 50 hands are being played heads-up and chips are going both ways, with Hinkle still keeping his chiplead throughout the match. In hand #160 of the day we finally reach the end. When Hinkle raises from the button to 350k, Akenhead reraises to 1.2 million. Hinkle moves all-in followed by a snapcall from Akenhead! Hinkle shows , which is obviously behind Akenhead’s  ! A poorly timed bluff seems to be one decisive moment, as almost all of the chips are in the middle, but he’s still got outs. Now the flop:  ! The extra on the turn doesn’t matter, his full house was good enough, his quads are even better. Brutal beat for Akenhead and he’s drawing dead on the flop, meaning Grant Hinkle (see picture) wins Event nr 2, and $831,462 and a bracelet with it!
By: Pindarots
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