 The second Limit Hold'em event would have had one of the worst final tables of the year, if only Daniel Negreanu wasnt on it! He's the big favorite for the title for sure, although David "DB" Baker starts as the chipleader. He's got quite some experience as well, with about 800k tournament earnings. The other familiar name is Fu Wong, who finished 2nd to Eric Brooks in the $10k Seven Card Stud-event. The other people on the table are not really known by the general public, all are on their first WSOP-final table, so all eyes are on KidPoker today! There was a lot of crowd, most of it because Daniel was at the final table, otherwise we'd have seen only those fanclubs at this limit game 
Chipcounts starting the day:
Seat 1: David Baker (Katy, Texas) -- 409,000
Seat 2: Jeremy Kottler (Cleveland , Ohio) -- 47,000
Seat 3: Hien Tran (Sacramento, California) -- 58,000
Seat 4: Ugur Marangoz (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 402,000
Seat 5: Fu Wong (Chandler, Arizona) -- 67,000
Seat 6: Greg Wohletz (Henderson, Nevada) -- 301,000
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu (Las Vegas, Nevada) -- 308,000
Seat 8: Derek Lerner (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) -- 133,000
Seat 9: Richard Li (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) -- 195,000
Blinds started at 5k/10k. Fu Wong was the first of the three favorites to go out, when he got all-in with an openended against Negreanu's top pair, he didnt manage to catch his straight. David Baker and Daniel Negreanu were the top 2 stacks througout most of the final table, though Baker's stack began to crumble, when he got called down with AK-high by Negreanu, who won the pot. Not much after that he got caught with his pants down again, when he bet all the way into Ugur Marangoz, who showed pocket fours for 2 pair (paired board, 4 overcards to his fours). Baker mucked again and lost another big pot. When he finally got into another big pot with Negreanu it was all over for Baker. Negreanu raises preflop, Baker calls, the flop brings    and Negreanu bets, Baker cals. The turn brings a  , Negreanu bets, Baker raises, Negreanu calls, but when the river brings a  Negreanu puts Baker all-in, who calls seeing that Negreanu just made his straight with his QJo.
So the heads-up battle begins between Daniel Negreanu and Ugur Marangoz (who works as a poker room manager at the Mirage). It took only 15 minutes to end the fight. When Daniel Negreanu flops trips, both check, the turn brings a blank and both check, with the river  (3 hearts on the table), Ugur Marangoz bets, Negreanu raises him all-in and Marangoz makes the call. Negreanu shows his trip 5's and wins his fourth bracelet and $204,874 . That amount will be almost doubled, by a generous Phil Ivey, with whom Daniel had made a bet, they'd pay eachother 200k for each bracelet won! The first thing Negreanu says when he won "Me-1, Ivey-0!", and while making the victory photo: "Hang on, I've got to text Ivey!"
And of course, kudos to Negreanu's mother, who stood by her son during the event as always, and makes him a vegan meal every day, he couldn't have done it without her!
Final results:
1 $ 204,874 Daniel Negreanu
2 $ 126,671 Ugur Marangoz
3 $ 78,624 David Baker
4 $ 63,335 Richard Li
5 $ 51,542 Fu Wong
6 $ 40,622 Jeremy Kottler
7 $ 31,886 Greg Wohletz
8 $ 25,334 Derek Lerner
9 $ 18,782 Hein Tran
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