Another beautiful story from this year's WSOP was provided by John Monnette, a player who already had four bracelets to his credit before the start of the WSOP. He added the fifth in the $1,500 Triple Draw event, where he dealt with 521 opponents, while the talented Patrick Leonard did not stop him at the final table. But the most amazing thing about this win is that in heads-up against Christopher Chung, John went down to only 0.5bb, but he pulled the chip'n'chair rule to the winning end!
"It was simply absurd! When you fall into an absolute short, there is not much you can do, you can only hope for the favor of the cards. After the second flip, I was starting to feel that this was a big moment, but I still can't believe how far it has come!” said the excited winner fresh from his win. "It means a lot to me, all the best players in the world are here fighting for bracelets. I appreciate it all the more that I managed to get the fifth one."
The $250,000 Super High Roller full of the best players in the world definitely attracted the attention of the media and spectators in Las Vegas over the past two days. Despite the massive buy-in, the tournament produced 69 entries and from them a prize pool of over 17 million. We were waiting for the best eleven players, among whom anyone could get in the world competition.
At the end of the second day, Phil Ivey took the bubble in this tournament, sending his 20bb into play with A 3 , which was quickly called by Martin Kabrhel with Q Q . The board unaided secured all 11 players a minimum payout of $411,490, which was taken by Ben Heath and Alfred Decarolis, thanks to which the final table was formed.
Until the end of the day, one level was played, during which no one was eliminated, so nine players will return tonight to fight for the bracelet and the $5,293,556 bonus. It is led by Chance Kornuth, followed by Martin Kabhrel, and there are also David Peters, Dan Smith and Artur Martirosian in the game:
The quarter million event also brought a curious moment, during which Jason Koon left the tournament with a good stack. Although he bagged a comfortable stack at the end of day 1, he did not enter day 2. But he had a good reason for it - his wife started giving birth. Since registration was still open at this point, the tournament director wished Koon good luck and returned his $250,000 entry fee.
Source: WSOP, PokerNews
