WSOP 2014 Event #44-45 - Jordan Morgan and Will Givens Win

Only two players returned on an unscheduled Day 4 of WSOP Event #44 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em: Jordan Morgan and Evan McNiff started with roughly similar stacks.

Jordan Morgan

Jordan Morgan – 4,445,000
Evan McNiff – 4,170,000

On the previous event day, the two of them were playing over six hours before they had to bag and tag their chips. Tuesday started out slowly as well and after 2.5 hours, the difference between their stacks was still not significant.

Jordan Morgan – 5,520,000
Evan McNiff – 3,080,000

Somewhat unexpectedly, the fate of the title was suddenly decided on Level 32 (20,000/80,000/160,000): McNiff raised to 320,000, Morgan shoved and McNiff called after tanking a bit.

McNiff: A K
Morgan: 6 6

Board: J 3 4 4 9

WSOPC Grand Tunica champion Morgan won his career best score with two pairs.

End results:

1st: Jordan Morgan – $478,102
2nd: Evan McNiff – $295,727
3rd: Jason Johnson – $204,464
4th: Ray Foley – $147,463
5th: Bryan Dillon – $107,800
6th: Robert Chorlian – $79,842
7th: Joseph Iarussi – $59,920
8th: Ryan Spittles – $45,554
9th: Michael Anselm – $35,063

On Day 3 of Event #45 $1,000 No Limit Hold’em, 11 players returned with Angela Prada-Moed in the lead. The nine-handed Final Table was formed with the elimination of Terik Brown and Kim Ng, the players drawing seats as follows:

Seat 1: Will Givens – 1,210,000
Seat 2: Ivan Saul – 458,000
Seat 3: David Hass – 435,000
Seat 4: Loren Klein – 182,000
Seat 5: Duy Ho – 1,022,000
Seat 6: Dmitrii Shchepkin – 410,000
Seat 7: Angela Prada-Moed – 944,000
Seat 8: Paul Sokoloff – 489,000
Seat 9: Patrick Curzio – 377,000

First out was Loern Klein, moving all-in on Level 22 (2,000/8,000/16,000) on the K 5 2 board with A J, Will Givens called with A T and the 6 on the turn sealed the hand with the 7 on the river rendered irrelevant.

Ivan Saul, Dmitrii Shchepkin, Duy Ho, Patrick Curzio and David Hass followed before the heads-up could be formed after a long 3-handed play, on Level 27 (5,000/25,000/50,000).

Will Givens – 4,200,000
Angela Prada-Moed – 1,300,000

Givens started significantly ahead and kept the lead; while Prada-Moed was able to climb up to about 2,000,0000 in chips, she entered the final hand with only half that amount. Givens opened to 100,000, Prada-Moed called and they saw the J A 8 flop. Prada-Moed shoved and Givens called.

Prada-Moed: Q 4
Givens: K J

Turn: A
River: 6

Givens won his first career bracelet with two pairs, after finishing 4th in this year’s Event #33 $1,000 NLHE.

Will Givens

End results:

1st:– $306,634
2nd: Angela Prada-Moed – $189,632
3rd: Paul Sokoloff – $131,110
4th: David Hass – $94,559
5th: Patrick Curzio – $69,125
6th: Duy Ho – $51,198
7th: Dmitrii Shchepkin – $38,423
8th: Ivan Saul – $29,211
9th: Loren Klein – $22,484