The $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better Event #25 of has been won by Danny Fuhs after a heads up battle that required an extra level of play to be added to the day’s schedule. Fuhs adds $277,519 to his history of cashes, as well as a gold bracelet for his jewellery collection.
The final table of nine was so nearly going to include several major names of poker with George Danzer and Jonathan Duhamel falling just short of the last nine. The organisers were probably split over the rise of Mike Matusow’s star, as he always makes for a great live stream, but has been known to wearing out the censor’s bleep button. It didn’t matter anyway as he fell in 11th place for $19,788, saving the WSOP the cost of a new bleep button.
The first elimination at the final table was in a pot opened by Bart Hanson in the cuttoff, only for him to find Christopher George three betting out of the small blind. Hanson called to bring the 5
K
2
flop, and then Hanson shoved over George’s c-bet.
Hanson turned over A
J93 for the nut wheel draw, but George flipped over AK62 for Kings up. The turn brought the T, added more outs for Hanson, but the 2 river sealed his fate, and sent him to the rail in 9th place for $25,301.
The 8th place hand came just after Ryan Lenaghan had lost a big pot to Brian Hastings, when Hastings had found the cards to make a ace high straight. This hand saw Ryan call for less than a big blind from under gun. To his left, Arthur Kargen raised, and Brian Hastings and Christopher George in the blinds called behind. With four players heading to the flop, the card came out 553, and Hastings fired a bullet that killed off George’s ambitions for this pot, but it missed Kargen, who made the call. The 4 turn brought checks from both the active players, while the K river saw Hastings fire again, this time taking Kargen out of the pot.
Hastings showed A642 for a straight and the nut low, and Lenaghan turned over his AJ93, only for them to be added to the muck, and for him to be given his marching orders along with $32,712 for 8th place.
It’s not that unusual in these limit games to see players automatically all in when they are in the blinds, and in the hand that gave us out 7th place finisher, we had two of them when Brain Hastings raised from the hi-jack, to take it to a 3 way all in situation with Jeff Lisandro’s small blind and Viacheslav Zhukov’s big blind. Lisandro showed K555, Zhukov had K842, while Hastings showed A874. The community cards were dealt and the AQ896 gave Hastings the high with an Ace high flush, while Zhukov had the low pot slid to him when his four and deuce gave him the best low. Lisandro hit the rail in 7th place with $42,442 for his troubles.
Arthur Kargen was the next to go when he called all in to Brian Hastings bet from early position. Danny Fuhs made the call as well from the big blind, and the three players saw the KQQ flop. the two active players checked it down, and continued to do so on the T turn and the 6 river. Hastings had rivered a baby flush with his 9263, and Fuhs threw his cards into the muck. Kargen flipped over A863 before he got up and left the table in 6th place for $55,423.
Zhukov was the next to go, when he was all in from the big blind, and was up against the small blind in Christopher George. Zhukov was ahead preflop with his QQ84 against George’s A732, but that didn’t last long. The board ran out A6KJ3 to give George aces up to take the high, and a seven low to scoop. With no chips left, Zhukov busted in 5th for $72,809.
It took a while for the next elimination, but the inevitable happened. Robert Mizrachi opened the pot with a bet from the button. Hastings three bet from the small blind, and Mizrachi called to bring the K53 flop. Hastings fired out, and Mizrachi returned the favour, and the action on flopped ended up with the betting capped with the agreement to put the rest of Hasting’s stack at risk on the turn. The Q turn saw that happen, and the hole cards were exposed. Hastings had KK32 for top set, but Mizrachi had outs to both pots with AA76, and the 8 river gave him a scooped pot with his flush and 8 low. Hastings left without his second WSOP bracelet in fourth place, with only $96,268 to console him.
Hasting’s slayer was the next to bust out. Mizrachi shoved his last 50k from the button, and both George and Fuhs called. They then checked down all they way to the river and the board ended up showing 72Q9hT. Fuhs showed T7JJd for tens up, and Mizrachi couldn’t trump that and his A653 went into the muck. Mizrachi left in 3rd with $128,074 to help fund the rest of his WSOP.
The heads up match took over two hours to finalise, but when it did it started with Christopher George raising from the button. Fuhs three bet, and the action got intense, ending when George was all in pre flop. The cards were flipped over and George showed A954 which was up against Fuh’s 7632. Greg Muller injected himself into the action, sweating his friend Fuh’s chance of winning a bracelet. The dealt flop was 2KQ to give Fuh the lead. The J turn didn’t help George, and with Muller’s cry of “Pair the board!” and the river doing just that with the J, Fuh had won his first WSOP bracelet.
The final results have been confirmed as:
- Danny Fuhs – $277,519
- Christopher George – $171,536
- Robert Mizrachi – $128,074
- Brian Hastings – $96,268
- Viacheslav Zhukov – $72,809
- Arthur Kargan – $55,423
- Jeff Lisandro – $42,442
- Ryan Lenaghan – $32,712
- Bart Hanson – $25,301