WSOP
The $1,000 No Limit Holdem Event #30 attracted an impressive crowd of 2,108 players, creating a $1,897,200 prizepool which awarded almost $350,000 for first place!
After 3 days of intense action, 10 players gathered for the unofficial final table to decide the final elimination and proceed to the official final table. This time the unlucky guy was Ben Greenberg. Ben ended up on the worst possible side of a coin flip when he and Carter Myers got it in pre-flop with Greenberg holding A 
Q 
against Myers’ J 
J . As soon as the dealer flipped over the window card, the race was over as it was a J . The rest of the flop did not help either as it rolled out 8 4 
, leaving Greenberg hoping for a miracle runner runner. The turn and river actually gave Greenberg two pair, but that was not enough as he exited in 10th place for a $20,015 score.
With that the official final table was lined up and leading the pack was Bulgarian pro Dimitar Yosifov:
Dimitar Yosifov 1,550,000
Carter Myers 1,302,000
Mathew Moore 760,000
Mike Pickett 610,000
Chris Dombrowski 565,000
Jonathan Thompson 429,000
Jesse McEuen 407,000
Christopher Bolek 355,000
Mathew Seer 350,000
After just 10 hands of play the first casualty was Jonathan Thompson, who went out in virtually the same way as Ben Greenberg. Mathew Moore opened the action to 40,000 from the cut off and got re-raised by Thompson to 84,000. After some consideration Moore moved all in and was snap called by Thompson with A Q . Moore revealed T T and was slightly ahead. After the flop however, Thompson was left hoping for a miracle just like Greenberg as J 4 T rolled out. And once again the turn was relentless as the dealer squeezed out another J , ending Thompson’s run in 9th place which was good for $25,448.
28 hands in and Mike Pickett was on the downturn and finally it was Dimitar Yosifov who finished him off. After a 40,000 raise from under the gun, Dimitar called an all in from Mike who shoved from the button and surprisingly was way ahead with A J versus Mike’s K J . The highest card on the board was a ten, helping no one and sending Mike Pickett to the rail in 8th place but $33,191 richer.
Just 3 hands later another bizarre elimination occurred as Matt Seer and Chris Dombrowski went head to head and got it in all in pre-flop. Seer was the one at risk of elimination with A K and slightly behind Seer’s J J . However, the K K Q flop made Seer a huge favorite to win the hand. A T on the turn gave Dombrowski a few more out though and the real heartbreak for Seer happened on the river as Dombrowski spiked one of the two remaining jacks, sending Seer home in 7th place and a score of $43,730.
Things remained pretty heated in the next few orbits as players were splashing around and finally it was Dimitar Yosifov who scored another elimination. Chris Bolek was down to a severe short stack and finally decided to make a stand with A 4 . Unfortunately for him, Dimitar woke up with Q Q and had Chris on the ropes. A 2 4 6 flop gave Chris some hope, but the rest of the board ran dry, eliminating him in 6th place for an impressive score of $58,348.
After this elimination things started to turn around at the table as the action cooled down and former chip leaders Dimitar Yosifov and Carter Myers started losing their stacks fast. Some 4 orbits later Myers was down to 595,000 chips and moved all in from the cut off with A 8 but was quickly called by Chris Dumbrowski with A J . Both players hit an ace on the flop, but that’s as far as Myers’ luck took him in this hand as he left the tournament in 5th place and a well-deserved $78,876.
The chipleaders blowup was continued just 3 hands later when Dimitar Yosifov re-shoved his dwindling stack into a 90,000 raise from Jesse McEuen. Jesse snap called him with A T and was way ahead of Dimitar’s A 2 . A 5 8 Q flop did not help anyone but lightning struck on the turn as Dimitar spiked a 2 to take a huge lead heading into the river. However, lightning can strike twice at a poker table and this time the tables were turned on Dimitar just like that as Jesse spiked a T on the river to score an elimination. With that Dimitar’s run ended in 4th place, earning him $107,922.
After that elimination Jesse McEeun looked like a solid pick to be one of the two players who will end up heads up, but with Dimitar’s elimination the table got even tougher and no eliminations happened for another 6 orbits as Jesse was slowly losing the three handed battle. The final blow came when Dombrowski raised the action to 130,000 from the button and Jesse re-raised all in with A 7 . Dumbrowski had to think for a bit before calling with A T . The 8 3 K flop gave Dumbrowki a very big edge, leaving Jesse with just two outs. The J turn gave Jesse some more outs to a split, but the river brought the one out the he did not want to see, the 7 , giving Dumbrowski a flush and eliminating him in 3rd place with a nice score of $149,850.
After a few more hours of heads up play, Dumbrowski had Mathew Moore out chipped by 4:1 and the final hand was #226. Mathew was constantly making moves to stay alive in this heads up match but this time Dumbrowki had him right where he wanted him. After a 200,000 raise from the button from Chris, Mathew moved all in for 1,6m and was called by Dumbrowski with A 7 . Mathew flipped over K 6 and needed help to stay alive. Luck was not on his side, however, as Dombrowski hit an ace on the flop to put a strangle hold on the hand and despite possible backdoor outs, none of them came through for Mathew Moore as he was eliminated in 2nd place, making him $215,578 richer.
Congratulations to Chris Dumbrowski on winning his first WSOP bracelet and the $346,332 that go along with it!
Chris Dombrowski
Final table payouts
1 Chris Dombrowski $346,332
2 Mathew Moore $215,578
3 Jesse McEuen $149,850
4 Dimitar Yosifov $107,922
5 Carter Myers $78,876
6 Chris Bolek $58,348
7 Matt Seer $43,730
8 Mike Pickett $33,191
9 John Thompson $25,488