The HPT Soaring Eagle Six took to the TV felt circa 6:45p EST/3:45 LV last night. There were a number of notables sweating this final table – Darvin and Wendy Moon were on the rail for the entire evening, and Scotty Nguyen made a (brief) appearance.
Though none of the eleven Season VI HPT Champs ran deep to the Six, many of them stuck around the extra night to sweat the final table including HPT POY Bryan Reisner, Las Vegas grinder Kimbo Ung, US Army Staff Sergeant Jason Fennel, aspiring American Idol singer Kurt Fraser, and an extremely personable Matt \”MyTmase\” Mason (who was diligently counting chipstacks all throughout Day 2.)
Here are the results:
HPT Soaring Eagle Season VI ->$1500 +$150 Main Event
1st: $176,865 Ahmed Harajli
2nd: $88,434 Joey Brown
3rd: $53,060 Jordan Rowan
4th: $41,269 Dean Hamrick
5th: $35,374 Bernard Lee
6th: $29,478 Chuck Earl
The taping of the final table lasted about 5 hours. Chuck Earl was the first to exit the taping area when Dean Hamrick\’s big slick & ace-on-the-river combo beat Earl\’s Queens. Pros Dean Hamrick and Bernard Lee busted out 4th and 5th place, respectively. Early on, Bernard went on a heater, shoving four consecutive times, while everyone folded and urged him to knock it off until on the last hand he showed kings.
Cowboys were not good to him in the endgame – he took a particularly nasty beat when his pockets fell short to 10s, when the case 10 hit the turn (another player revealed after the hand he was holding the other out), ending his tournament life. Shortly thereafter, Hamrick ran his 33s into QQs, leaving him on the shortstack. In the next hand, he pushed allin with K-rag vs. AQ, but it did not get there, and he left with fourth place money.
I happened upon the pair conversing during the break just after Lee\’s shove-shove-shove-and-shove fest at the FT.
Here is the link to the interview where they discuss running deep together in the $1500 2010 WSOP Main Event where Hamrick won his first bracelet-> rungood.tv| ESPN Inside Deal Host Bernard Lee and Dean Hamrick Square Off at Heartland Poker Tour TV Table
Jordan Rowan cashed out soon after at 3rd, leaving headups to Joey Brown and Ahmed Harajli. I\’m interested to watch the broadcast of this matchup, because without seeing the hole cards, it still was more entertaining to me than watching the Duhamel-Racener matchup streaming on XBox Live. In the end, Joey went all in shortstacked with K5 against Ahmed 10s. Ahmed\’s hand held up, making him champ of the HPT Season VI Finale, surviving a field of 413 players.
Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle, patched in UB, presented the Michigan native with his $176,865. I overheard the floor saying that Ahmed, showing some real class, requested to donate a portion of his winnings to the Disabled American Veterans charity.