The $10,000 World Championship Heads-up event is definitely one of the most exciting tournaments in my opinion. Its just great to see so many players facing each other in the heads-up. 256 was the number of registered players, so that makes 8 rounds for the eventual finalists.
A good number of LPers took part in this tourney. Raszi, Myth, Rekrul, mig and Cutsss were those I recall seeing the names. I'm not sure if anyone else took part.
Mig and rekrul, lost in the 1st round. rekrul, who was the last year's champion was eliminated by whitelime aka Emil Patel. I'm sure you know but just in case you don't, Whitelime is a very good online player and is very good at heads-up too. He was also semifinalist of the FTP $25k heads-up tournament. Cutsss lost in the 2nd round. The best results came with Ket and Raszi. Both lost in the 3rd round and finished in the money. Ket lost against Vanessa Selbst. The nice thing is that they eliminated good opponents in their way. Ket eliminated Genius28 South and Raszi took out Cole "CTS". (thx Ket)
The final four were Kenny Tran, Alec Torelli, Vanessa Selbst and Jonathan Jaffe.
Alec Torelli > Vanessa Selbst
Kenny Tran > Jonathan Jaffe
Its the second year in a row that Vanessa makes it to the semifinal of the heads-up tournament.
Kenny Tran ended up winning the whole thing. The final was played in a bo3 match, but Tran won it in straight matches. He said in the second he gambled a bit more because he was ahead 1-0, and that was the reason he chased the nutflush that ended up being the final hand of the tournament. Congratulations for Kenny Tran and his first bracelet!
You can check a bit of Kenny Tran's results at former WSOP events clicking here. You can see he had some deep finishes, so it's great that he finally won his bracelet!
Final 8:
1.Kenny Tran $539,056
2.Alec Torelli $336,896
3.Vanessa Selbst $108,288
4.Jonathan Jaffe $108,288
5.Lyle Berman $54,144
6.Brandon Adams $54,144
7.Gavin Griffin $54,144
8.Robert Mizrachi $54,144
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