They are head's up in WCC #10: Malibu Big Game, after the quick eliminations of Jonathan Skovsen and Christopher Putz. Patrick Brooks starts the two-handed with a big chip lead, but Christian Rudolph has already doubled once.
Christian Rudolph is still behind, but he's managed to double a couple times and claw some chips back. Patrick Brooks still has more than twice the chips of his opponent though.
WCC #10: Malibu Big Game ended ace versus ace when Christian Rudolph shoved his final 26 million with ace-five, but ran into ace-jack for Patrick Brooks. The game ended with the jack kicker winning between ace-highs, for all the chips.
That's a wrap on the partypoker Sunday LIVE coverage from PokerNews, but here's a quick recap of the day.
The Grand
After bagging the biggest stack in Day 1a last Sunday, Christoph Vogelsang came back this Sunday with a vengeance, taking down The Grand for $46,434. Vogelsang came back from a big deficit head's up to beat Canadian Jonah Silverstein. Later in the day, the German phenom cashed for more than $16,000 more for 11th place in the Malibu Big Game.
The Grand drew 237 entries this week, for a total prize pool of $237,312. That was more than 15% above the $200,000 guarantee.
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
Christoph Vogelsang
Germany
$46,434
2
Jonah Silverstein
Canada
$32,411
3
Jeremy Saderne
United Kingdom
$22,387
4
Felipe Ketzer
Brazil
$15,043
5
Sylvain Loosli
France
$11,064
6
Andras Nemeth
Hungary
$8,947
7
Tamás Ádámszki
Hungary
$7,355
8
Evgeniy Cherkasov
Russia
$6,123
9
Joshua Mccully
United Kingdom
$5,129
WCC #10: Malibu Big Game
It took just under 9 hours to finish WCC #10: Malibu Big Game, and Patrick Brooks from the United Kingdom took home the top prize of $152,529. There were a total of 126 entries in the game, putting $646,500 into the prize pool. That was well over the $500,000 guarantee.
The final two players briefly talked about a deal head's up, but couldn't find agreement and chose to play it out. Christian Rudolph made a valiant comeback, doubling up a few times and getting as high as 40 million chips after starting two-handed play with about 16 million. It wasn't to be however as he finally ran ace-five into ace-jack and couldn't get there, sending the pot and first place money to Brooks.
Place
Player
Country
Prize
1
Patrick Brooks
United Kingdom
$152,529
2
Christian Rudolph
Austria
$103,798
3
Jonathan Skovsen
Denmark
$72,753
4
Christopher Putz
Austria
$49,865
5
Jonathan Proudfoot
United Kingdom
$36,697
6
Dzmitry Urbanovich
Belarus
$28,582
7
Max Stock
United Kingdom
$23,120
Day 1c of WCC #05: Main Event
After just over 7 hours of play, Day 1c of the Main Event ended with 55 players remaining after a starting field of 366 entries. Ioannis Konstas bagged the biggest stack with over 5 million.
Player
Country
Chips
Ioannis Konstas
Greece
5,097,753
Dinesh Alt
Austria
3,609,481
Diogo Da Silva
Brazil
3,287,184
Day 1c of WCC #06: Mini Main Event
Day 1c of the Mini Main Event drew 659 entries, with 99 players advancing to Day 2. It took just under 5.5 hours to play down to that level, and Robin Berggren bagged the biggest stack of almost 4 million.