Jason Mercier raised in early position, only for official short stack Eric Liu to move all in. Folds all around the table, and back to Mercier, who tanked up. Eventually he called.
Liu: {Q-Spades} {Q-Diamonds} Mercier: a somewhat speculative {K-Clubs} {J-Clubs}
Board: an oh-so decisive {A-Clubs} {K-Spades} {10-Clubs} {7-Diamonds} {3-Diamonds}
Seat 1: Barry Shulman - 1,090,000 Seat 2: Jason Mercier - 3,198,000 Seat 3: Praz Bansi - 1,160,000 Seat 4: Markus Ristola - 784,000 Seat 5: Chris Bjorin - 518,000 Seat 6: James Akenhead - 1,398,000 Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu - 438,000 Seat 8: Antoine Saout - 701,000 Seat 9: Matt Hawrilenko - 674,000
Six former WSOP bracelet winners, two members of the November nine, including Akenhead. A big chip leader, and Negreanu, the big name, comparatively short stacked. Interesting stuff imo.
Edited by moderator mussorgsky:
(September 30, 2009)
Reason:
put official chip counts in and added a bit.
Jason Mercier 2462000 James Akenhead 1302000 Barry Shulman 1247000 Praz Bansi 1146000 Daniel Negreanu 1018000 Markus Ristola 843000 Chris Bjorin 809000 Antoine Saout 583000 Matt Hawrilenko 513000
A quick "Awww" from the crowd soon turned into a standing ovation as we lost Mr. Bansi in third place. He returned to the table to hand his few remaining stacks of chips over to Negreanu, and with his exit, we are heads up.
pn
Here they be, after the dust has settled from a) the last hand and b) the wheeling of the money stack and the bracelet out into the middle of the room in front of the table:
Daniel Negreanu - 6,180,000 Barry Shulman - 3,855,000