 Figure yourself in this situation: you're at the WSOP for a couple of days, you planned to play a few events and after that you're done and should go home. But than a friend mails you, saying you HAVE TO play the next event, it's really you're kind of thing, he expects you to do well etc. What would you do? Well, this situation was the one Ryan Hughes was facing before the start of event 47. He was supposed to go home, but being a Stud-8 fan as he was, he decided to stay for just one more tournament and play it, before going home. And guess what? He won it! Actually the story gets even crazier when you see the guy's history, the same thing happened to him last year, he wasn't supposed to play the $2000 Stud-8 tournament that time either, but yet he won it. This year it's the $1500 Stud-8 bracelet, making him the first ever player to win 2 stud-8 bracelets ever in WSOP-history!
This glorious day for him all started with 13 players, of which only 9 would make the final table. There was really everything to play for, the nr 13 only got $8,168, where the winner would get close to 200k and a shiny bracelet. He started the final table as chipleader, the best known competitor was without a doubt David Sklansky, who started as one of the shortstacks:
Seat 1: Tim D’Alessandro - 140,000
Seat 2: Jonas Klausen - 338,000
Seat 3: David Sklasnsky - 66,000
Seat 4: Josh Feldman - 200,000
Seat 5: Ryan Hughes - 400,000
Seat 6: Ron Long - 224,000
Seat 7: Alessio Isaia - 220,000
Seat 8: Thomas Hunt - 31,000
Sklansky was the first to bust out, and when we got to the heads-up, Ryan Hughes started with a huge chiplead: 1.3mln against 300k chips. It looked very good for Hughes, and in the end his full house against the kings of Ron Long was enough for his second bracelet and a place in the recordbooks of the WSOP, and there was $183,368 waiting for him. Not bad for an event he wasn't even supposed to play!
1. Ryan Hughes $183,368
2. Ron Long $113,240
3. Thomas Hunt $68,686
4. Alessio Isaia $50,122
5. Jonas Klausen $39,355
6. Joshua Feldman $30,444
7. Tim D'Alessandro $23,019
8. David Sklansky $19,306
By: Pindarots
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