WSOP 2014 Weekend Recap - Cartwright and Tuan Le Win

A whole range of WSOP 2014 events have been wrapped up during the weekend. Here are the highlights of the finales of Event #4 $1,000 NLHE and Event #5 $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship.

WSOP Event #4 $1,000 NLHE saw 2,224 entrants accumulating $2,001,600 in prize money. By Day 3, only 12 players remained and five times WSOPC title holder Kyle Cartwright was in the lead. He was accompanied by WSOP 2008 Main Event 4th finisher Ylon Schwartz, among others.

The nine-handed Final Table was formed with the elimination of Blake Barousse, Geoffrey Mooney and Steve Chanthabouasy. The seat draw was as follows:

Seat 1: Robert Kuhn – 997,000
Seat 2: Jeremy Dresch – 607,000
Seat 3: Jason Paster – 180,000
Seat 4: Matthew O'Donnell – 306,000
Seat 5: Daniel Dizenzo – 872,000
Seat 6: Kyle Cartwright – 1,914,000
Seat 7: Michael Sortino – 346,000
Seat 8: Ylon Schwartz – 843,000
Seat 9: Ken Weinstein – 223,000

Michael Sortino was out first, followed by Ken Weinstein, Robert Kuhn, Jeremy Dresch and Matthew O'Donnell in the respective order. The 3-handed play brought about several twists and turns: Jason Paster was first down to only 110,000 and the doubled up several times to climb up to 2,000,000 in chips.

On Level 27 (5,000/25,000/50,000), Paster opened to 10,000, Cartwright re-raised to 260,000, Schwartz shoved for 2,025,000, Paster folded and Cartwright called. Schwartz showed pocket fours but Cartwright held nines and the board came neutral.

Kyle Cartwright – 4,605,000
Jason Paster – 2,025,000

In only nine hands, the tournament was over: Paster raised to 100,000, Cartwright 3-bet to 270,000, Paster 4-bet all-in for 1,845,000 and Cartwright called.

Paster: 4 4
Cartwright: A Q

Board: 5 Q 2 J Q

Cartwright won his first career bracelet with a three of a kind.

End results:

1st: Kyle Cartwright – $360,435
2nd: Jason Paster – $223,518
3rd: Ylon Schwartz – $157,926
4th: Daniel Dizenzo – $113,550
5th: Matthew O’Donnell – $82,726
6th: Jeremy Dresch – $61,068
7th: Robert Kouhnn – $45,635
8th: Ken Weinstein – $34,552
9th: Michael Sortino – $26,489

120 players registered to Event #5 $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship for a prize pool of $1,128,000. Like Event #4, only 12 of them returned and the strong field lost David Benyamine, Jon Turner, Michael Chow, Jason Mercier and Alexandre Luneau, before Sergey Rybachenko bubbled the Final Table.

Seat 1: Eli Elezra – 739,000
Seat 2: Phil Galfond – 317,000
Seat 3: Justin Bonomo – 1,302,000
Seat 4: George Danzer – 248,000
Seat 6: Nick Schulman – 479,000
Seat 7: Tuan Le – 515,000

On Level 23 (10,000/20,000), Phil Galfond called all-in for 96,000 on Justin Bonomo’s 5-bet. He changed 2 cards, Bonomo one, Galfond another one and Bonomo stood pat. Galfond used his last draw option, discarding one and got a 7 to his 8-7-5-2 hand. Bonomo won with 8-6-5-4-3.

George Danzer was out next, getting a pair against Eli Elezra’s 9-6-4-3-2, and then came Nick Schulman before the heads-up was formed, when Tuan Le eliminated Elezra.

Justin Bonomo – 1,840,000
Tuan Le – 1,760,000

The heads-up battle took three hours with Le in the lead most of the time. In the last hand, he raised to 100,000, Bonomo called and they both changed two. Bonomo then bet 50,000, Le called and they both changed again, one this time. Bonomo bet large, Le made his opponent’s stack counted and then raised to just 10,000 less than Bonomo’s all-in. The latter shoved, Le called and they stood pat.

Bonomo: 9-8-7-5-4
Le: 9-6-4-3-2

Tow times WPT champion Tuan Le won his first WSOP title, while Bonomo booked a third runner-up WSOP finish.

End results:

1st: Tuan Le – $355,324
2nd: Justin Bonomo – $219,565
3rd: Eli Elezra – $144,056
4th: Nick Schulman – $99,015
5th: George Danzer – $70,308
6th: Phil Galfond – $51,538