Yeah, thats the word for what John Phan has achieved. The man didn't need to wait a single week to win his 2nd WSOP bracelet. After winning the $3,000 NLHE event last week, he now won the $2,500 2-7 Triple Draw. Basically the rule is: the "worst" hand wins (7-5-4-3-2). In case you would want to know more, here you go.
The number of registered players was quite low when we think about a WSOP event, "only" 238, prizepool $547,400, 1st prize $151,896. That's obviously because its not a very popular game.
Anyway, the finalists were: John Phan, David Sklansky, Robert Mizrachi, Ben Ponzio, Shun Uchida and Gioi Luong. Everyone excepted the last two were bracelet winners already, so this one of those great final tables.
During the day some kind of rivalry was born. Phan and Luong had a couple of discussion on some situations. First, Phan pushed 6k chips in thinking he was on the blinds, and Luong asked the dealer to call the floor. And then, in a discard round, Luong tried to change one of his discarded cards, what Phan didn't like and immediately called the floor. The situation wasn't cool anymore, and it was only better after Luong was eliminated (by John Phan).
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First situation was, as explained, a genuine mistake by Phan that all the others understood. Read the quote from WSOP:
| | John Phan, thinking he was in the big blind to start the hand, put 6,000 chips in front of him. As soon as he realized his error, and before there was any action, he tried to pull them back. Gioi Luong immediately asked the dealer to call the floor. "You trying to shoot an angle?" Phan asked. The dealer explained the situation to the floor. The other three players -- Ben Ponzio, Robert Mizrachi, and Shun Uchida -- all agreed that they felt Phan had put his chips in the pot in error and realized his mistake before there was any action. The floor allowed Phan to take the chips back, and then have the action proceed from him. "I thought we were playing Gentlemen's Rules," Phan said to Luong, his words dripping with indignation. "Nice try to shoot an angle though. You take a shot, that's really good." Luong muttered a few remarks of his own, but they were inaudible. |
The second situation was a strong discussion between them. I will take a quote from WSOP:
| | It has finally erupted. In a hand between Shun Uchida and Luong, Uchida discarded two cards. Luong discarded three cards. The dealer knocked the felt, burned a card, and as she was dropping two cards down to the felt, Luong said, "Wait wait wait," and tried to change one of his cards. Phan was immediately out of his seat. "He can't do that! He can't do that! He's trying to change his card. He knows he can't do that!" The dealer immediately called for a floor, but in the interim Luong changed his third discard at least two more times.
Phan was irate, shouting over the dealer as the dealer tried to tell the floor what had happened. He got so incensed that he leaned across the table and grabbed the card that he believed Luong had initially discarded. That brought Luong to his feet, shouting back at Phan with his top lip quivering in anger.
Ultimately, the floor ruled that the card which Phan believed was the initial discard must be discarded. Whether or not that was the card which Luong initially discarded is unclear. "He uses every angle there is," Phan complained. "I don't know why he does that. He knows better." "I don't want to talk with you. You play your hand!" snapped Luong. "Take the angle," Phan replied. "Gamble up."
On the very next hand, Phan raised from the button. Luong three-bet him from the big blind. Phan angrily made the call, flinging his chips into the pot so hard that one flew off the table. Luong stood pat through all three draws. betting all the way until the last round of betting, where he checked. Phan took three on the first draw, then stood pat the rest of the way as well. Luong may have called his hand. What he said was unintelligible to us. Phan didn't muck right away, waiting for Luong to open his hand, which he ultimately did to reveal 6-6-7-4-2 -- a pair. "He called the wrong hand!" shouted Phan. "Snowing! It's raining in here." Phan opened 9-7-6-3-2 to take the pot. |
The competition was very close all the time. In no moment one player got a huge lead and became untouchable. The heads-up between Shun Uchida e John Phan started very even, but eventually Phan prevailed and started to create a good lead. The HU didn't last much, around 40 minutes actually. But that was enough for Phan to win his bracelet. He won the bracelet with a hand that people calls "number 2", the 2nd best hand: 7-6-4-3-2. Great way to finish the tournament and win his 2nd bracelet!
John Phan after the win:
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Final results:
1.John "Razor" Phan $151,911
2.Shunjiro Uchida $95,795
3.Gioi Luong $61,582
4.Robert Mizrachi $41,055
5.Ben Ponzio $28,738
6.David Sklansky $20,527 |
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