WSOP

Final Table Chip Rankings:

• 1^st Hoyt Corkins $1,300,000
• 2^nd Alan Sass $1,127,000
• 3^rd William Lin $726,00
• 4^th Terrance Chan $502,000
• 5^th Kelly Vander-Mheen $307,000
• 6^th James Pittman $127,000

Being a six handed tournament meant that play was a lot looser than normal, and we didn’t have to wait long before we lost the first player. It was James Pittman on the 10^th hand of play who decided to make a move whilst holding he was up against William Lin with pocket Eights. The pocket pair held up for Lin with the final board showing knocking Pittman out of the tournament in 6^th place winning $63,118.

Only six hand later the other short stacked player Kelly Vander-Mheen went out of the tournament. Mheen moved all in holding after the Flop came down and was instantly called by Hoyt Corkins with pocket Aces. The pocket Aces was good enough to win the pot with the coming down on the Turn and on the River. Mheen was eliminated in 5^th place winning $96,431.

Hoyt Corkins proceeded to dominate the table increasing his chip stack to well over 2 million in chips slowly grinding down the other players. It wasn’t until the 56^th hand of play when he eliminated the next player. Alan Sass was in a great position against Corkins with his dominating Corkins with the Flop and Turn coming down But the River killed Sass off with the coming down giving Corkins the huge pot. Sass took the $132,471 in prize money for 4^th place.

Just four hands later Terrance Chan put himself in a decent position eliminating William Lin into 3^rd place. Chan hit two pair holding against Lin’s with the board coming down Lin heading for the rail collecting $196,758 for third place.

Hoyt Corkins held a decent chip lead going into heads up and made this dominance tell within twenty hands. The final hand came when Chan called an All In move from Corkins with against pre Flop. The Flop came down giving no help to either player and Chan was still in a slender lead. This quickly changed with the coming down on the Turn pairing up Corkins hand. The on the River ended the event giving Hoyt Corkins the deserved win. This was Corkins second WSOP bracelet win but the last time he won was fifteen years ago, so his long wait for his next was finally over.

WSOP 2007 Event 30 Result:

• 1^st Hoyt Corkins $515,065
• 2^nd Terrence Chan $287,345
• 3^rd William Lin $196,758
• 4^th Alan Sass $132,471
• 5^th Kelly Vande-Mheen $96,431
• 6^th James Pittman $63,118

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