The $1,000 NLHE Event #7 gave us the biggest heads up battle of the 2013 WSOP over seven hours of mano-a-mano action, ending with Matt Waxman winning the bracelet and $305,952.
Ten players entered the final day, but Scott Felton fell very early in the day to give us the official final table of nine.
The first to go from the official final table was Jason Koon not long after he had doubled up Eric Baldwin. Koon shoved his last chips over the line with
A
4
only to see Brent Hanks shove over the top with KK
, and Amit Makhija call both with KQ. With Koon needing at least an ace, the board ran out 7
T4 T J. Hanks ended the hand with a lot more than he started it with, while Koon was eliminated in 9th for $22,435.
Chip Leader Waxman eliminated Tuu Ho in 8th in the 41st hand when his QQ dominated Ho’s AQ. The board brought a gutshot for Ho, but the turn and river were blanks, sending Ho to the rail in 8th, with $29,147 to cushion his disappointment.
Waxman seemed to be a one man table wrecking machine as he eliminated Robert Dreyfuss in 7th place as he paired the 9 he had sitting next to the A on the flop, and Dreyfuss’s A7 couldn’t find the miracle with the final two cards. Dreyfuss left in 7th with $38,340.
Next to hit the rail was Jacob Jung. He shoved from the cutoff, and Jess Dioquino and Eric Baldwin both called form the blinds. The flop turned over was 337, and the action was checked by both the players in the blinds. The 7 didn’t get anyone’s blood pumping enough to bet, but the T turn saw Dioquino fire out a 35k bet, and Baldwin fold.
Jess flipped over 76 for the full house, which had Jung’s K4 crushed. Jung left the table with $51,086 for his efforts.
2012 WSOP bracelet winner Brent Hanks was the next to go after he called Baldwin’s pressure inducing shove from the small blind. Hanks had looked down at 88 in the big blind, and was happy to see he was miles ahead of Baldwin’s 33. That was until the flop was exposed, as it came 43T to give Baldwin a set. Hanks was looking for an eight on the turn and river, but one didn’t arrive. Hanks’s 5th place earned him $68,975.
Waxman was back on the warpath for hand 99, when he eliminated overnight chip leader Amit Makhija when Amit’s QQ ran slap bang into Waxman’s AA. The board was irrelevant, and Makhija left in 4th for $94,353.
Eric Baldwin ended three handed play very quickly after it started when his QT had Jess Dioquino’s Q2 dominated. With no deuces in the community cards, Dioquino was eliminated in 3rd for $130,825 to leave us with an all professional final twosome.
Both players held the chip lead multiple times during the monster nearly 7 hour heads up fight. The last of the 187 heads up hands saw Baldwin shove 74 from the button and Waxman snap call with A5 for about 25% of his stack.
The flop ran out AT3 to increase Waxman’s lead, but the 6 gave him a sweat giving Baldwin the straight draw. The 6 river didn’t help Baldwin, and he ended the event in 2nd place for $189,220
This is Waxman’s first bracelet, but based on the way he’s been playing, it’s likely not his last.
The results from the final day look like this:
- Matt Waxman – $305,952
- Eric baldwin – $189,200
- Jess Dioquino – $130,825
- Amit Makhija – $94,353
- Brent Hanks – $68,975
- Jacob Jung – $51,086
- Robert Dreyfuss – $38,340
- Tuu Ho – $29,147
- Jason Koon – $22,345
- Scott Yelton – $17,491
