Taylor Paur Wins Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($340,260)
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After navigating a field of 2,017 players over three days, Taylor Paur was crowned the champion of Event#18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em taking home $340,260 and his first WSOP bracelet.
We started the day with 14 players and all eyes were on Phil Ivey, even as Paur was the chip leader. He maintained the chip lead through out most of the day only giving it up for a brief time in heads up play. Paur remained dominate as we watched the eliminations of Phil Ivey, Nick Colbrese, Adam Sanders, Robert Deppe and James Epner to get to our official final table.
Just like the start of the day, Paur began the final table with the chip lead and put those chips to work early. It only took 13 hands to see our first eliminations when both Ryan Austin and Kyle Cartwright found themselves all in against Paur. Austin started the hand with more chips and as such was eliminated in 8th and Cartwright in 9th place.
The next person to go was Daniel Idema, in seventh place, just 10 hands later by DJ MacKinnon. Phillip Hui finished in sixth place after being pretty quiet during the day's play. He tried to make a move when action folded to him on the button but unfortunately for him, Alex Barlow in the big blind woke up with queens.
DJ MacKinnon was our next casualty leaving in fifth place after he found himself all in with kings against Paur's aces. Following MacKinnon, was Alex Barlow in fourth place. Barlow was on the extreme short stack after MacKinnon and he doubled up Tai Nguyen a few hands earlier.
Paur began three-handed play with a significant chip lead (5,000,000) over his opponents, Roy Weiss (745,000) and Tai Nguyen (475,000). Paur continued to dominate play at the final table raising or reraising almost every hand. The only play Weiss and Nguyen had was to move all in. Which Nguyen did one time too many, leaving the tournament in 3rd place.
Paur entered heads up play with a 4:1 chip lead over Weiss. Paur remained in control of the match until Weiss caught some lucky cards to take the chip lead for a short time. However, when the players went to dinner, Paur was back on top with 4,250,000 of the 6,000,000 chips in play. Weiss changed his strategy at dinner time and instead of calling most of Paur's bets, he began moving all in on every hand. At one point, Weiss took over the lead and had Paur all in for his tournament. Luckily for Paur, he won that hand and five hands later claimed victory over Roy Weiss, our second place finisher.
| Place | Player | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor Paur | $340,260 |
| 2 | Roy Weiss | $211,794 |
| 3 | Tai Nguyen | $147,220 |
| 4 | Alexander Barlow | $106,027 |
| 5 | DJ MacKinnon | $77,491 |
| 6 | Phillip Hui | $57,324 |
| 7 | Daniel Idema | $42,962 |
| 8 | Ryan Austin | $32,608 |
| 9 | Kyle Cartwright | $25,041 |
That concludes our coverage of Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Stay with PokerNews.com for all the latest coverage coming to you from the 44th Annual World Series of Poker.
onto the felt. As soon as Paur's rail realized their hero had paired his ace they erupted into raptures. The turn was the 
improving Paur to trip aces, and his rail went nuts! However, the noise soon lowered when everyone realised Weiss had picked up a club flush draw. The river was red, it was the 
and with that Paur had won his first bracelet and the noise from his rail almost lifted the roof off the Rio.
and Paur made a 85,000 continuation-bet. Nguyen looked at his chips and then cut out 210,000 for a raise. Paur moved him all in and Nguyen immediately made the call for his 930,000 total stack.
and was in front against Nguyen's 
. Both had a flush draw but Paur's was just a little better. The 
on the turn gave both players a flush but Paur's wasn't sure to be seating heads up yet. The 
could still ruin the party and for a second the rail and players thought it hit the river. The 
was close, but no cigar, for Nguyen who exited in third place.
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. The dealer put the 
on the table and Paur bet out 60,000. Weiss folded and Paur showed his 
for a rivered top pair. Barlow mucked his cards but the dealer tabled them anyway because it was an all in and a call situation. Barlow was rivered with his 
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and Barlow's queens hold, eliminating Hui in 6th place.
river was irrelevant as Paur soars over two million and eliminates two players in the process.
. Wel, since the title of this post is that Epner is eliminated, you might have guessed by now what the river was. Indeed, the 
made the board complete. Hui had 269,000 and left Deppe with just 11,000 in chips.
and got isolated by Hui who showed 
. Deppe didn't make a come back as the board came out 
