The $1500 No Limit Hold'em events are those that usually have the biggest turnouts, and this event was no different. 2720 players registered for the event, creating a prizepool of $3,712,800.
It was one of those final tables with not so much hype, not THAT KNOWN faces. David Woo and Thomas Werthmann were the most experienced of them all, the ones with most tournament success etc. Werthemann has a WSOP bracelet, he won a pot limit event in the 2005 wsop, and before the final table he was running good as he started the last day as the chipleader.
Seat 1: Eric Beren (640,000)
Seat 2: David Woo (640,000)
Seat 3: Habib Khanis (645,000)
Seat 4: Mike Glasser (495,000)
Seat 5: Curtis Early (1,225,000)
Seat 6: Jim Paras (535,000)
Seat 7: Matt Wood (675,000)
Seat 8: Thom Werthmann (1,600,000)
Seat 9: Thanh Dat Tran (1,255,000)
David Woo was already in a similar position during last years WSOP. It was his 2nd final table in a NL Hold'em event, but the other time he finished 5th. This time everything worked in his favour.
He took out the chiplead from Thom Werthmann really fast in a hand that was key for the rest of the day. Woo hit a set of queens on the flop and won a huge pot of 1,900,000, that let him with over 3 million chips after this particular hand.
After that it was all good for him. He also eliminated both Curtis Early and Thomas Werthmann in the same hand (6th and 5th place). It was a very thrilling hand where 4 players limped. Flop showed Q-10-J, Woods folded and the rest of them went all-in, but Woo had the two other players covered.
Woo had the nut straight, with AK
Early had top pair and straight draw with KQ
Werthmann had two pairs with QJ, aiming a fullhouse.
Turn and river didn't make a difference, and Woo managed to take the pot and eliminate his opponents.
Woo said: "As it turns out, everybody limped, I flopped the stone cold nuts and scared for my life because I know people have tremendous draws." - I can imagine how fast his heart was beating after that hand :D.
David Woo celebrating victory in the happiest day of his life
Woo played the heads-up against Matthew Wood. They started the play with a chiplead of 1.6:1 in favour of David Woo. He never really had much trouble in the heads-up, even tho it was quite long, he also always managed to stay on the lead.
In the final hand, Woo had tens against a 96o from Wood, who had flopped the pair of nines. Turn and river didn't make a change, and Woo won his first bracelet on his 2nd NLHE final table. Woo earned $631,656 for the win, and Wood got $389,844 for the 2nd place.
Take a look at the final results:
1.David Woo $631,550
2.Matthew Wood $389,844
3.Eric Beren $278,460
4.Habib Khanis $233,906
5.Thom Werthmann $191,209
6.Curtis Early $150,368
7.Thanh dat Tran $113,240
8.Michael Glasser $85,394
9.Jim Paras $58,290
By: Raidern
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