 Yesterday was going to be Mig’s second big shot at a bracelet, after winning one last year. Last year he crushed the final table (with Michael Binger and Nick Schulman on it) in under 3 hours, this time it looks to be a lot harder. In the toughest field of all the WSOP-events this year (at least so far, no chip-donating donkeys amongst them, except for Phil Hellmuth of course  ), we were delighted to see James Mackey amongst those who made the final table. Tom “durrrr” Dwan and chipleader Matt Glantz seemed to be the ones to beat, although all the players there seemed to be “bracelet-worthy”, if they didn’t have one already.
Seat 1: James "mig.com" Mackey 742,000
Seat 2: Matt Glantz 1,115,000
Seat 3: Sam Farha 374,000
Seat 4: Michael DeMichele 434,000
Seat 5: Tom "durrrr" Dwan 642,000
Seat 6: Eli Elezra 76,000
Seat 7: Anthony Rivera 274,000
Seat 8: Jeff Madsen 149,000
The match started not the way “durrrr” would have wanted it to see: Eli Elezra doubles up through him twice, and Matt Glantz takes a bite out of his stack as well, within half an hour, Dwan loses most of his stack. Though he recovers pretty quickly, when he doubles up through Michael DeMichele in 2-7 Triple Draw, winning the hand with a pair! (it’s a lowball game, lowest hand wins, as in Razz) Not much after that Dwan wins a pot off Jeff Madsen and he’s up to about 200k, this all within about 70 minutes, durrrr sure likes to play a few pots!
The last hand meant a big blow to Jeff Madsen’s stack, and not much after that he’s busted 8th. Mig still has about the same stack he started with, when Dwan gets crippled by Matt Glantz again. This time it’s a crucial hand, Dwan only has 35k chips after that, and he’s all-in with pocket 2’s not much after. He gets called by 2, and when Anthony Rivera hits a  on the flop with his   Tom Dwan is busted 7th!
A big pot won by Mig against Sam Farha (Mackey hit a full house, Farha mucked) means 2 things: Mackey now has over a million chips and Farha is crippled, not much after that he’s out 6th when he loses the rest of his stack to Eli Elezra in Razz. The same Eli Elezra that later has to leave the field, when his K’s in the whole aren’t enough against the rolled-up 3’s (meaning trip 3’s as a starting hand) of DeMichele in Stud-8.
Matt Glantz is the chipleader at that moment, with close to 2 mln chips, ahead of James 'mig.com' Mackey with about 750k, Rivera has 640k, DeMichele was at 490k.
 With the biggest pots being played in 2-7 Triple Draw, it wasn’t much of a surprise to see DeMichele go in that game. After being crippled by Rivera, he shoves his last 40k not much after that. Mackey and Rivera call, boh draw 3 and Rivera bets, Mackey calls. Second draw both draw 1, same stuff: Rivera bets, Mackey calls. At the 3rd draw they both stand pat (meaning not drawing a card) and both check. Rivera shows 8-7-6-4-2 and Mackey mucks. Michael DeMichele shows a 10 and mucks the rest, when he’s out in 4th place.
The next bustout was one by James Mackey. When he bets 125k on a   flop Matt Glantz moves all-in. Mackey calls and shows   for top pair, with Glantz having   for midpair + gutshot straightdraw. No help from the turn and river and Mig is heads-up against Rivera!
On the very first hand of heads-up Mig raises to 87k in No-Limit Hold’em. Rivera reraises to 287k and Mig moves all-in. Rivera couldn’t be more happier, says “What? You're all in? I call!” and does just that, turning over   . Unfortunately for Mackey he’s in a bad spot with   . No help from the board and Anthony Rivera, who just had Mig covered, wins his first bracelet. James “Mig” Mackey has to settle with $297,792 (taking his lifetime (live) tournament winnings to over 1 million!) and the knowledge that he’ll have to wait for another chance for his second bracelet, but I’m sure we’ll see him back soon!
Congrats on the 2nd place Mig!
By: Pindarots
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