Its the second shootout event of WSOP, you remember, right? That 3 round single table sit'n'go. This time, 1000 registered players would make 100 tables of 10. The winner of each table would advance to more 10 tables of ten, and the winners of each table would make the final table.
So: 1000 (nothing) -> 100 ($) -> 10 ($$) -> 1 -> $335,565
Of course, as always in most of the WSOP events, many great players were registered, but today I'm not naming them. One nice thing is that Raszi managed to advance to the 2nd round of the tournament. Statistically speaking he was also close to the final table of the tournament, he finished 3rd in his 2nd round table. First lost TT vs AKo by the worst way possible: a runner-runner straight using only the ace; and then ran 86s vs KK, and that was the hand of his elimination.
Nice run tho Raszi, best of luck next time! That was surelly really unfortunate and I'm sure he is very disappointed because by that time Raszi was playing for more than 14h, as the tournament started around 12pm and he was eliminated by 02am of the other day.
Final table
After day one lasted for 19h, the players rested a bit and came back at 14h (2pm) of the very same day. So it means they had 7h to go 'home' and come back to the final table.
And the final table, for spectators at least, was a very thrilling experience. It came very close to being a Rocky-story actually. Jason Young faced Michael Schwartz in the heads-up and it was all about fun.
They were almost exactly even in chips (5,070,000 vs 4,930,000 or something) when Schwartz limped and Young raised the blinds to 400,000 more. Schartz made the call.
Flop:   
Young: bets 750,000
Schwartz: calls
Turn: 
Young: I'm all in
Schwartz: stands up and walks around the table thinking. "I think you have AT, I call".
Young:  
Schwartz:  
River: 
By then, Young starts to jump and celebrate like crazy, hug people, kiss the dealer, and even go after the bracelet. Buuut one of the tournament organizers said: "wait. Schwartz had you covered, he still has 150,000 chips".
Hell, that was not even enough to pay for the small blinds. People were probably saying "relax" to Young, but what happened in the following hands was bizarre. Schwartz pretty much "millionplied" it up!
He won in succession (all of them all in):
JTo vs A3o on J 4 6 T A
93o vs AQo on 4 3 8 K J
ATo vs A7o on 8 Q 2 4 2
By then Schwartz had 1,200,000 chips against Young 8,800,000.
After some more hands, Young raised all-in from the button and Schwartz snap called.
Schartz:  
Young:   ("oh shit" were his words)
Board:   
After this hand Schwartz was very alive with 3.4 million chips, and Young's victory didn't look so sure anymore. You bet everyone had "omg" in their minds.
After some few hands, finally the final hand of the tournament, that could have decided everything:
Schwartz raises to 700,000 from the button, and Young reraises all in. Schwartz calls. It's 44 vs AJ.
Board:    
That board killed all of Schwartz hopes of making one of the most awesome comebacks of the history of poker. Had he won that hand he would completely turn the chips around and would have held the chiplead after being down to 150,000 chips when his opponent had 9,850,000.
Young said "If I were to come that close to getting it and then lose it, I don’t even know what I would have done. I probably would have been burying myself in a room with bottles of booze for the next three or four days, at least." after the tournament. We are all sure of that haha.
That was an awesome heads-up I'm sure. At least it was probably the most thrilling I have followed.
 Congratulations to Jason Young, he wins $335,565 for the 1st place, while Michael Schwartz earns $209,527 for the 'almost' comeback of the year.
Final results:
1.Jason Young $335,565
2.Mike Schwartz $209,527
3.John Strzemp III $129,675
4.Rory Monahan $82,582
5.Matt Giannetti $40,267
6.Kyle Bowker $23,887
7.Sergey Rybachenko $15,697
8.Tom West $12,421
9.Alex Triner $9,828
10.Casey Coleman $7,507
By:Raidern
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