A total of 550 players registered for WSOP Event #35 $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Eight Handed, accumulating a prize pool of $2,585,000. Only 170 of them survived Day 1 and 23 returned on Day 3, including a selection of the very elite of the industry.


Brian Yoon

In the course of Day 2, a number of pros got eliminated before reaching the money, including the likes of Fabian Quoss, Jennifer Tilly, Shaun Deeb, Jason Mercier, Griffin Benger, Dan Shak, John Juanda, David Pham, Philipp Gruissem, Igor Kurganov, Vanessa Selbst, Stephen Chidwick, Sorel Mizzi and Jason Somerville.

When the bubble burst, Anton Smirnov finished 54th ($9,642), Brandon Meyers 50th ($9,642), Michael Mizrachi 44th ($11,141), Eric Baldwin 38th ($12,847), Jonathan Duhamel 37th ($12,847), Dan O’Brien 28th ($15,148), and Nick Schulman 26th ($15,148).

The remaining players were lead into Day 3 by three times WSOP champion Jeff Madsen, with Sam Trickett, Josh Arieh, Ravi Raghavan, Dan Smith and Olivier Busquet also in the field, among others. Eventually, the following players drew seats for the Final Table:

Seat 1: Timo Pfutzenreuter – 305,000
Seat 2: Josh Bergman – 1,541,000
Seat 3: Josh Arieh – 1,165,000
Seat 4: Ardit Kurshumi – 540,000
Seat 5: Tony Cousineau – 369,000
Seat 6: Dan Smith – 735,000
Seat 7: Brian Yoon – 3,035,000
Seat 8: Mustapha Kanit – 566,000

Tony Cousineau was out first, eliminated by Yoon in a flip, and then Timo Pfutzenreuter’s hand got cracked by Mustapha Kanit’s A-7 and two aces on the board. Kanit also railed Dan Smith with pocket sevens, Smith tabling A-T on the neutral board.

Kanit was eventually stopped by Yoon, the A-8-7-3-K board missing the latter’s 6-5 straight draw and Yoon showing A-Q. Two times WSOP champion Ardit Kurshumi was out next in a flip going to Josh Arieh, before Arieh also eliminated Josh ‘JBT449’ Bergman.

Brian Yoon – 4,255,000
Josh Arieh – 4,010,000

Yoon dominated the heads-up and had a 3-times lead over Arieh by Level 28 (5,000/25,000/50,000). There, Arieh opened to 100,000, Yoon called and they saw the 6:d 7:d 9:d flop. Yoon checked, Arieh bet 75.000, Yoon check-raised to 240.000 and Arieh called. On the A:c turn, Yoon bet 350.000, Arieh moved all-in for 1,630,000 and Yoon called.

Arieh: A:d 2:h
Yoon: 8:d 2:d

River: 6:c

Last year’s Little One for One Drop winner Yoon scooped in his second WSOP bracelet with a flush.

End results:

1st: Brian Yoon – $633,341
2nd: Josh Arieh – $391,575
3rd: Josh Bergman – $246,169
4th: Ardit Kurshumi – $176,684
5th: Mustapha Kanit – $128,862
6th: Dan Smith – $95,515
7th: Timo Pfutzenreuter – $71,940
8th: Tony Cousineau – $55,034

 

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