Singer Wins Full Tilt $25K Heads-Up Challenge
Yesterday, Short-Stacked Shamus took us to the quarterfinals of the 64-player Full Tilt Poker tournament.
Later in the evening, it was determined that the four players going to the semifinals would be:
David Singer v. Brian Hastings
Andy Bloch v. whitelime (Emil Patel)
When players returned to the action today, the matches were slow but solid. Patel took control of his match with Bloch and applied pressure until he took it down. Singer dominated Hastings throughout their match and finally claimed victory. That meant that the final round was:
David Singer v. whitelime (Emil Patel)
Both players started with 160K in chips and played 12-minute levels, beginning with a 75 ante and blinds at 300-600. (It was actually interesting to watch the virtual match with a little virtual audience in the background.) Singer jumped out to an early lead and never allowed Patel to gain any ground. In the end, Singer took it with pocket 8’s over Patel’s 10-3 off.
Final payouts:
1st – David Singer $560,000
2nd – Emil Patel $320,000
3rd – Brian Hastings $168,000
4th – Andy Bloch $168,000
5th – Patrik Antonius $96,000
6th – Dani Stern $96,000
7th – mischiefofmagic $96,000 (won a $535 satellite to enter)
8th – mastrblastr
DanM says:
May 25th, 2008 at 5:34pm
do we know if any of these guys qualified by satellite, or were they all direct buy-ins?
California Jen says:
May 25th, 2008 at 7:45pm
The only one who was “outed” as a satellite winner was the 7th place finisher.
California Jen says:
May 25th, 2008 at 7:45pm
Oh, and only four out of the entire 64 players were satellite winners. Everyone else bought in.
Kevin Mathers says:
May 25th, 2008 at 8:32pm
1st, 3rd and 4th are FTP pros, whitelime and Ansky play highstakes and both do online coaching/training (for duecescracked and poker savvy plus respectively I believe).
Pud's Poker says:
May 26th, 2008 at 1:55am
The whole field was sick! I was routing for ActionJeff, he comes across as an arrogant knob but he has some serious skills when it comes to poker.
Not a bad payday for all who cashed especially the half a mill for the winner!
Jason B says:
May 27th, 2008 at 11:15am
I think it was humorous that the head’s up event was called the “Chris Ferguson”. I watched the heads up between andy bloch and emil patel for a few hands. One thing I casually noticed was there wasnt much of going on between observers or even the players.
Jason B says:
May 27th, 2008 at 11:15am
I think it was humorous that the head’s up event was called the “Chris Ferguson”. I watched the heads up between andy bloch and emil patel for a few hands. One thing I casually noticed was there wasnt much chatting going on between observers or even the players.
Kevin Mathers says:
May 27th, 2008 at 11:16am
Observer chat was turned off.
California Jen says:
May 27th, 2008 at 1:47pm
The event wasn’t called the “Chris Ferguson.” It was simply hosted by Chris Ferguson.