2007 WSOP : Event #3 is won by Ciaran O’Leary
After a three of days of play we’ve seen over 2,900 players take part and get busted as Cairan O’Leary outlasts them all to win.
2006 US Poker Championship winner Alex Jacob had a monster stack of 3.1m chips at the start of the final table - nearly twice as many as the next biggest stack of the remaining nine players.
But Jacob busted out in 3rd place after he fell in love with his pair of fours (!!) after the flop possibly feeling bullied by O’Leary who had just won a 2.3m pot preflop on the hand before.
Two hands later Paul Evans feels the heat and cracks calling a raise that put him all-in with only a pair of sixes after the flop and needing to hit or get runner-runner spades in order to beat O’Leary’s Kings.
No-one improves their hand and Ciaran O’Leary wins over $727,000 and the bracelet of course.
FINAL TABLE CHIPS AT START OF DAY
PLAYER —–— CHIPS
Alex Jacob — 3,100,000
Paul Evans — 1,690,000
Jeff Yoak — 965,000
Matt Vengrin — 930,000
Ciaran O’Leary — 610,000
Thad Smith — 555,000
Craig Crivello — 495,000
Andreas Krause — 490,000
Bart Hanson — 210,000
All-in-all, it was some some pretty average play at the business end of the tournament, but that does not matter to O’Leary who was obviously stocked to win the $1,500 no-limit event - the largest live poker tournament outside of the main event !!
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