Newsblog: E12 FT Limit Hold'em $1,500

Event 12, the $1500 Limit Hold’em event started this day with 18 players. While it was planned that we’d play the final 9 this day, it didn’t happen because play didn’t conclude fast enough to have reduced the field of 179 at day 2 to 9 on day 3. This means we have 2 final tables, with Vinny Vinh as chipleader, and Erick Lindgren as best known competitor of the event:

Table 14:
Seat 1: Teddy Monroe (Washington, DC) 40.000
Seat 2: Arash Beral (Los Angeles, California) 14.000
Seat 3: Brendan Taylor (Pasadena, California) 240.000
Seat 4: Zachary Henderson (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) 98.000
Seat 5: Markus Golser (Austria) 135.000
Seat 6: Steve Foutty (Santa Rosa, California) 21.000
Seat 7: Ali Eslami (Los Angeles, California) 208.000
Seat 8: John O'Brien (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 163.000
Seat 9: Joseph Sanders (Lima, Peru) 173.000

Table 15:
Seat 1: Erick Lindgren (Las Vegas, Nevada) 244.000
Seat 2: Steven Shkolnik (Los Angeles, California) 199.000
Seat 3: Eric Pratt (Kennewick, Washington) 48.000
Seat 4: Duc Nguyen (Las Vegas, Nevada) 115.000
Seat 5: Zac Fellows (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 164.000
Seat 6: Chung Law (Milpitas, California) 110.000
Seat 7: Christoph Niesert (Berlin, Germany) 173.000
Seat 8: Vinny Vinh (Houston, Texas) 335.000
Seat 9: Jimmy Shultz (Lewis Center, Ohio) 161.000

After a very long and demanding day 2 players got back and when the first player went out in the first hand, it promised to be a short walk to the final 9. Players went out relatively quickly, most due to being shortstacked and being forced all-in, which isn’t much of a surprise in limit hold’em. Last one to go out before the final table was Erick Lindgren, when he was committed after posting the big blind he got all-in with , calling Markus Golser’s raise who held pocket kings. No help and Lindgren was out 9th. The following final table emerged:

1. Vinny Vinh
2. Teddy 'Iceman' Monroe
3. Markus Golser
4. Ali Eslami
5. Brendan Taylor
6. Jimmy Shultz
7. Chung Law
8. Christoph Niesert
9. Zac Fellows

Teddy “The Iceman” Monroe (you might have recognized him from his annoying tv-table appearance at the Main Event last year) started the day as the shortstack, but managed to hold on to his stack and expand it, until he got all-in against a made flush, finishing 5th. The chipleader starting the day, Vinny Vinh, did a little better, but when he pushed his last money on the table with nothing, he got called by Jimmy Schultz’s middle pair and was out 3rd.

As is accustomed with limit poker, the heads-up did take quite a long time, almost 2 hours before the final hand of the night was played. Zac Fellows got short on chips when he got his money in preflop against Jimmy Schultz: Fellows’ was ahead to Schultz’s . The gave Schultz hope: made him a lot of outs for his flush or higher pair, and the on the turn gave him even more outs because another queen could give him a higher 2 pair (a 7 would split the pot). One of the many outs hit when the was dealt on the table, and that meant Jimmy Schultz wins his first bracelet and $257.105 . 25% of this price will go to the Charlestown Fire Department! Zac Fellows has to settle with the 2nd place, and $165,165.

By: Pindarots