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lpblog Vietnam. Jul 02 2008 17:17. Posts 17 | | |
We are coming close to an end of this years world series, and this PLO event is the last World Championship before the Main Event. 381 players registered for this $10,000 buy-in event, creating a prizepool of $3,581,400.
The winner of this event was the irish Marty Smyth. He is from Belfast, Ireland (dorh), 32 years old, and dropped out of school to play poker. Ever since he never had to look for a "normal" job. Smyth has some good success in his poker career, he has had very important tournament winnings in the last 3 or 4 years, and with the prize he won at this event, he has now surpassed the $2.5 million mark in tournament winnings. Also, despite playing the WSOP for four years now, his first cash came only this year (at the $1500 pot limit omaha, event 19).
Before I mention the final table, I think it would be nice to say (since some guys here played starcraft) that Guillaume Patry, aka Grrr, played this tournament and finished 16th.
The final table had some great players, the more accomplished of them being clearly Michael Mizrachi. On a curious note, Mizrachi's brother (I think you know about that already  ), Robert Mizrachi, was the champion of this same event last year. I think it would be really nice if he defended his brother's title haha. Anyway, he started the day in the chiplead, with 1.7 million chips, followed by 3 other guys (Smyth among them) who had over 1 million chips as well.
Mizrachi started the day seeming like he was going to eliminate everyone. He was the responsible for all the first four eliminations (Greg Hurst, Brandon Moran, Tom Hanlon and Kido Pham). He would eventually send Billy Argyros home, in 4th place. The truth is Mizrachi was Smyth's gold mine, as the irish doubled up twice on him and got the chips that would put him in position to win the event later.
It was canadian Peter Jetten tho the person who eliminated Mizrachi. Jetten started the day with the 3rd smallest stak. He had around 450k chips, 4 times less than Mizrachi (at the start of the ft). After Mizrachi's elimination, the heads-up was between Marty Smyth and Peter Jetten. I will make this short:
Smyth started with the slight chiplead, Jetten takes it after a few hands, Smyth gets a 2:1 chiplead with a straight (in a hand Jetten had a straightdraw too but never got the jack he needed), Jetten fought back and got the chiplead again, and thennnnnn, both flopped the nuts! must see this hand!(from WSOP website):
| | Hand No. 133 - Peter Jetten has the button, and he limps in. Marty Smyth raises the pot, and Jetten comes along. The flop shows up    . Smyth bets the pot, 600,000. Jetten announces, "I raise the pot." Before he even has the chips out of his stack, Smyth moves all in, and Jetten quickly calls. When the stacks are counted down, it's Peter Jetten who is covered, and he is all in at risk of elimination. With a mountain of chips in the middle of the table, the hands are turned up: Jetten:     Smyth:     The showdown bring the entire crowd to their feet and cues a rowdy chorus of cheers from the two opposing sections of fans. Jetten and Smyth have both flopped their straight, but Smyth is freerolling with a redraw to a straight flush! The suspense in the air is tangible, and the cheering becomes a wave of noise that engulfs the whole room. The Irish side of the room cheers, "Club, club, club!..." while the Canadians across the stage simultaneously chant, "Brick, brick, brick!" With everyone still on their feet and the noise almost overwhelming, the dealer burns and turns fourth street:  The Canadian section erupts even louder when they see that brick peel off. Their guy has to fade just one more card to chop the pot and go back to square one. The crowd leans forward on their feet as the dealer knocks the table, burns and turns the final card:  ! A huge roar follows from the entire room. Marty Smyth nails an incredibly profitable club on the river, making him the winning flush and earning him the title and the bracelet! We truly could not imagine a more thrilling finish to our event! |
With this SICK and very thrilling hand, Marty Smyth wins event 50, the Pot Limit Omaha World Championship! Congratulations!
CHeck the final results:
1.Marty Smyth $859,549
2.Peter Jetten $528,256
3.Michael Mizrachi $331,279
4.Billy Argyros $268,605
5.Richard Harroch $214,884
6.Kido Pham $170,116
7.Tom Hanlon $134,302
8.Brandon Moran $107,442
9.Greg Hurst $80,581
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alphablend United States. Jul 04 2008 15:59. Posts 2424 | | |
Way to go Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ! |
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world champion of omaha,
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| I was playing poker with tarot cards the other night. I got a full house and four people died. WTF...welcome to finland... | |
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