First of all I might say that I'm brazilian and I'm really happy writing this up 
Alexandre Gomes, from Curitiba, Brazil, won last night the $2000 No Limit Hold'em event, also known as event 48. This was one of those huuuuge tournaments, 2300+ players, $4,216,940 prizepool (O.O), $770,540 for the 1st place.
Gomes, aka Allingomes on Pokerstars, was pretty much a nobody at the international scene. He is a 25 lawyer who decided to give a shot at poker after good results started to come up - he has $100k in online winnings. In the final table there were online pro Marco "CrazyMarco" Johnson and the russian pro Kirill Gerasimov.
Luck was definitely on Gomes' side yesterday. It's incredible how luck he was sometimes. I'll just mention two incredible hands:
First, when he was covered by Alan Cutler, Gomes answered a preflop raise by moving all-in. Gomes showed 7-6 and Cutler A-Q. Flop was A-Q-J. Not very good situation, only running sevens or sixes would help him. And thats exactly what happened, six on turn, six on river, and a double-up for Gomes. That was hand nr 1.
Hand nr 2 was pretty much the 'almost' final hand of the tournament. Gomes went all-in preflop and was covered again, this time against CrazyMarco on the heads-up. Gomes cards were A-10 while Marco held a pair of Aces. Ooouch. But here is what happened:
Johnson:  
Gomes:  
Board:     
That hand gave Gomes the chiplead back, the lead he would never lose. A few hands later his A-K would prevail over Johnson's Q-J.
Seeing the picture you can see how happy the brazilian guys were for Alexandre's victory. Its definitely the most important result of the brazilian poker history. So congratulations Alexandre for the awesome result, your victory brought a lot of joy for all of us, brazilian poker players !
Check the final results:
1.Alexandre Gomes $770,540
2.Marco Johnson $491,273
3.Ryan D'Angelo $326,812
4.Robert Brewer $274,101
5.Alan Cutler $223,497
6.Kirill Gerasimov $177,111
7.Sverre Sundbo $134,942
8.Gabriel Costner $103,315
9.Dan Rome $71,687 |
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