Dan O'Brien Runs Out of Gas
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2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
No Break
Level: 22
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
New Seat Assignments
Table 1
Seat 1: Xuan Nguyen
Seat 2: Blake Cahail
Seat 3: Nick Schulman
Seat 4: Donnie D'Auria
Seat 5: Binh Nguyen
Seat 6: Tom Braband
Seat 7: Danny Lu
Seat 8: Payman Arjang
Seat 9: Ben Sarnoff - ELIMINATED
Table 2
Seat 1: Tam Ly
Seat 2: Chris Ferguson
Seat 3: Pat Walsh
Seat 4: Cornel Andrew Cimpan
Seat 5: Jeremy Kottler
Seat 6: Dan O'Brien
Seat 7: Hoyt Corkins - ELIMINATED
Seat 8: Mark Bryan
Seat 9: Zach Hyman
Table 3
Seat 1: Greg Mueller - ELIMINATED
Seat 2: Chris Karagulleyan
Seat 3: Mike Sowers
Seat 4: Peter Feldman
Seat 5: Billy Pilossoph
Seat 6: Teddy Monroe
Seat 7: Nancy Todd Tyner
Seat 8: Justin Scott
Seat 9: Matt Woodward
By the time we were able to get the table draw together and into the blog, three players had been eliminated. Ben Sarnoff went out in 27th place; Hoyt Corkins went out to a round of applause in 26th place; and Greg Mueller, one of the shortest remaining stacks, was eliminated in 25th place. Each player received $44,433 in prize money.
Paul Wasicka Eliminated in 28th Place ($38,085)
and ran into Arjang's pocket kings. The board filled out nine-high thus cementing Wasicka's exit.The tournament clock has since been paused while the remaining 27 players redraw for new seats.
Andre Akkari Eliminated in 29th Place ($38,085)
On a board showing
, Akkari led out with an 8,000 bet that was countered with a raise to 40,000 from Ferguson. Akkari answered by moving all in over the top and Ferguson made the call setting up the following showdown:Ferguson:
Akkari:
Akkari's sweat was short lived, as the turn delivered the
giving Ferguson a flush and ending Akkari's run at a WPT championship. Ferguson moved past the 1.5 million mark in chips with the win.
Top Ten Chip Counts
Chris Ferguson - 1,550,000
Payman Arjang - 1,100,000
Binh Nguyen - 1,065,000
Dan Lu - 765,000
Chris Karagulleyan - 750,000
Matt Woodward - 686,000
Dan O'Brien - 610,000
Nick Schulman - 565,000
Peter Feldman - 545,000
Mike Sowers - 490,000
With 28 players remaining, the average chip stack is 497,142
Inhpounh Vongvone, Kofi Farkye Eliminated
Introducing the Last Woman Standing
A political consultant and president of Nancy Todd Inc., an international strategic consulting firm based in Las Vegas, Todd posted a few smaller cashes on the tournament circuit in 2007 before making a big splash on the WPTL last April, where she took down the ladies championship, good for a $68,640 payday.
Todd is currently sitting with around 280,000 in chips - just a few thousand more than she started the day with - though she has managed to outlast some of the game's biggest names in what has become, perennially, one of the toughest tournaments of the year.
Short Stacks Refuse to Die
against Danny Lu's and flopped a king that held up through the river.The field is definitely tending towards level stacks, which will make the process of winnowing these 31 players down to the last 18 a much longer one.