The Poker Lab Rat

Event #33 was the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys an event that is often associated with plenty of big hand action and lots of heavy betting action …

and No - we haven’t really lost our marbles - and the winner of event #33 was not the little blue guy on the left.

The winner was actually Alan Smurfit who started the final table as the short stack but battled his way to his first ever WSOP cash (a tidy sum of $464,000) and also his first WSOP bracelet.

The final table for lasted 271 hands overall - with 169 hands (and six hours) of that play been a heads-up battle between Alan Smurfit and Qushqar Morad.

Morad was one card away from winning his second WSOP bracelet in Hand #135 — the 31st hand of heads-up play. Smurfit was all in after a flop of 10, 9, 4 with a pair of fives and an ace, while Morad had a pair of kings and an ace.

Smurfit’s only chance was to catch a five. The 5h hit on the river, giving Smurfit renewed life in the tournament.  Alan Smurfit made the most of that opportunity, winning his first WSOP bracelet with a full house.

Oh here is a real picture of Mr Smurfit.