 I just realized its our 50th post on this blog. I would like to thank you guys for reading us everyday during the world series 
Event 41 of WSOP was the $1,500 Mixed Hold'em (limit/no-limit). The name pretty much says it all. It's an event where every half an hour the game changes from NLHE to LHE. 731 players registered for the tournament and the prizepool was short of a million, $996k to be exact. 1st place got paid $219,562.
What can we say about this event? You know when we say that certain player dominated the table, eliminated like 6 players all 'by himself' and wins it all? Well, it happened, but he didn't win in the end. Nick Binger, who happens to be Michael Binger's brother, was the guy who was dominating everything during the day and failed at the end. Binger eliminated everyone until he was sent out in the 3rd place. Seriously, the guy was running so good that it seemed like whatever he did was the correct the decision. He called a short-stack all-in from Chris Rentes with 72o and won it (Rentes had 5d6d and got no help from the board). Wish I was like that all the time.
Frank Gary, on the other hand, played some kind of a patient game. It was like he was just waiting for his time. Once the game got to 3handed, Binger actually had a huge lead of over a million. Little by little it that lead was cut to 250k chips. Eventually Binger was sent off by Jonathan Tamayo, in a threes vs queens situation, where the queens ruled him out.
Heads-up started with Tamayo ahead in a 2:1 chiplead. Eventually they got even and they started alternating the lead just like the tournament alternates the game-style. We can say that the big hand of the tournament, even if it wasn't the final one, was a hand that crippled Tamayo. The texas boy flopped a nutstraight, but Gary got a runner-runner nines full of tens that gave him the big lead he would never lose.
The final results are:
1. Frank Gary $219,508
2. Jonathan Tamayo $140,093
3. Nick Binger $84,814
4. Chris Rentes $69,348
5. Alex Jalali $56,875
6. David Machowasky $44,902
7. Mats Gavatin $34,902
8. Michael Chu $27,440
9. David Sorger $19,956
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