Level: 6
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 0
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 World Series of Poker
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,406,400
Entries
256
Level
6
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Stokes Survives All In
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. Stokes checked, then called a 150,000 bet from Wolpert.The turn brought the
and Stokes checked again. Wolpert bet 342,000 only to have Stokes move all in. Wolpert folded relatively quick, and Stokes took it down.
Stokes vs. Wolpert: Wolpert Finds a Way
The flop would bring the final betting action of this round, though neither player knew it yet. It came down
. Wolpert checked, and Stokes fired out a bet of 125,000. After stacking out an assortment of technicolor chips, Wolpert finally settled on a raise amount, sliding out 420,000. It didn't take long for Stokes to move all in, and Wolpert quickly called.Showdown
Wolpert:
Stokes:
Stokes cringed as he saw the worst news possible. His flush draw was no good, but he did have live overcards. The
on the turn made the news worse though, as the all-in player was left drawing to a non-heart ten or queen. To his demise, the river was a blank 
to fill out the board.Failing to get over the hump, Jamin Stokes has been knocked off in 3rd place, just shy of the final match. Stokes took out Johnny Chan in an epic duel in the previous round, and his match with Wolpert was no easy task either. It was a roller coaster ride, with Stokes nearly felted several times. He had just managed to battle back very close to even before his final match ended, as his winning opponent had him covered by just a few small chips.
With his hard-fought victory, Leo Wolpert has punched his ticket to the final best-of-three match.
Play Wraps Up For The Night
In that final, it will be EPT founder John Duthie against law student Leo Wolpert, who will have to call out of his internship tomorrow. Wolpert put a halt on a professional poker playing career to go back to law school at the University of Virginia but decided to play this event while he was in Nevada for the summer internship.
Duthie and Wolpert will square off tomorrow in a best of three final round. They will begin each match with 3,840,000 in chips and blinds of 15,000-30,000.
Join us at 12pm PST to watch all the action as it unfolds at PokerNews.com.
Event 29 - $10,000 World Championship Heads Up No Limit Hold'em
Day 3 Completed