WSOP 2014 Event #21 and #22 - Nitsche Wins Third, Wallace First Bracelet

Day 3 of WSOP Event #21 $1,000 No Limit Hold’em saw 16 players returning with November Nine member Bob Bounahra in the lead ahead the likes of Thayer ‘THAY3R’ Rasmussen, Dominik Nitsche and Mickey ‘mement_mori’ Petersen.

The seat draw of the nine-handed Final Table was as follows:

Seat 1: Thayer Rasmussen – 1,824,000
Seat 2: Eric Milas – 390,000
Seat 3: David Burt – 168,000
Seat 4: Bob Bounahra – 1,023,000
Seat 5: Dave D'Alesandro – 527,000
Seat 6: Dominik Nitsche – 814,000
Seat 7: Billy Horan – 241,000
Seat 8: Zachary Gruneberg – 716,000
Seat 9: Jeff Gross – 339,000

David Burt, Billy Horan, Eric Milas and Jeff Gross got eliminated before Rasmussen moved all-in on Level 27 (5,000/25,000/50,000) from the CO. Nitsche called.

Rasmussen: A K
Nitsche: T T

Board: 6 J 2 6 6

Nitsche got his full house and Rasmussen was out in 5th.

Zachary Gruneberg followed before the heads-up got formed on Level 29 (10,000/40,000/80,000): Nitsche opened to 160,000, Bounahra and then Dave D'Alesandro shoved, Nitsche called.

Nitsche: T T
D'Alesandro: Q Q
Bounahra: 7 7

Board: K 6 5 9 4

D'Alesandro got the lead and Bounahra was out in 3rd.

Dave D'Alesandro – 4,360,000
Dominik Nitsche – 1,770,000

Nitsche managed to come back and had the lead by the last hand, where they pushed pre-flop.

Nitsche: K 6
D'Alesandro: Q 7

Board: K 6 Q A A

Nitsche won with top two pair.

After winning one of the $1,000 NLHE events in 2012 and the WSOPC $10,000 NLHE 2014 WSOP National Championship this May, an official bracelet event outside the summer schedule, Nitsche scooped in his third title.

End results:

1st: Dominik Nitsche – $335,659
2nd: Dave D'Alesandro – $208,931
3rd: Bob Bounahra – $145,229
4th: Zachary Gruneberg – $104,594
5th: Thayer Rasmussen – $76,443
6th: Jeff Gross – $56,549
7th: Eric Milas – $42,382
8th: Billy Horan – $32,168
9th: David Burt – $24,702
 

Event #22 $10,000 HORSE Championship welcomed 21 players back on Day 3, including chipleader high stakes cash game regular Tommy Hang and renowned faces like David Benyamine, Justin Bonomo, Calvin ’cal42688’ Anderson, Nick Schulman, Daniel Negreanu and Bertrand ’ElkY’ Grospellier.

The unofficial Final Table was formed as follows:

Seat 1: Calvin Anderson – 422,000
Seat 2: Richard Sklar – 1,690,000
Seat 3: Max Pescatori – 433,000
Seat 4: Christopher Wallace – 430,000
Seat 5: Bill Chen – 221,000
Seat 6: Randy Ohel – 859,000
Seat 7: Lee Goldman – 534,000
Seat 8: Bruno Fitoussi – 89,000
Seat 9: Richard Ashby – 1,310,000

With the elimination of Bruno Fitoussi, the field reached the official finale. First out was ’cal42688’ in a Stud hand: he missed his outs against two times WSOP champion Max ’The Italian Pirate’ Pescatori:

Anderson: T 9 / Q 2 8 2 / 7
Pescatori: 8 8 / A Q 4 4 / 2

Another holder of two WSOP titles, Bill Chen came next, followed by Lee Goldman and Pescatori, who got railed in a Razz hand by WSOP 2012 $2,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball winner Randy Ohel. WSOP and WCOOP title holder shortstack Richard Ashby was up before the heads-up got formed as Richard Sklar lost his stack to Ohel.

Randy Ohel – 3,400,000
Christopher Wallace – 2,600,000

The tournament was over within half an hour: Wallace was quick to come back and turn the game to leave Ohel with only 1,100,000 in chips when the latter called all-in on the 5th street of a Stud 8 hand:

Wallace: 2 3 / 5 2 3 Q / 3
Ohel: A A / 3 T 2 A / K

Ohel got an ace for trips on the 6th hand but Wallace improved to full house on the river, taking down the title.

Chris Wallace won his first career WSOP title, along with $507,614 in prize money.

End results:

1st: Christopher Wallace – $507,614
2nd: Randy Ohel – $313,715
3rd: Richard Sklar – $206,499
4th: Richard Ashby – $150,625
5th: Max Pescatori – $112,066
6th: Lee Goldman – $84,844
7th: Bill Chen – $65,273
8th: Calvin Anderson – $50,966