Not long after, the tournament completely shifted in Sepiol's direction as he would win the biggest pot of the tournament and send one of the most accomplished poker pros in history home. The board came out A ♣ A ♦ 10 ♠ 9 ♠ 7 ♥ and Moorman, one of the top tournament and online players in poker, busted in fourth place for $2,095,300.įollowing the elimination of Moorman, Lucky Chewy held a slim lead over Sepiol, while Sotiropoulos was riding a 'short' stack, although with 46 big blinds, he had plenty of dancing chips to make a run at the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup trophy. Moorman would then call off his final 16 big blinds with Q ♣ J ♥ and run into a higher queen - K ♣ Q ♦ - that Sotiropoulos had in the hold. Although he'd just doubled up, Sotiropoulos was still the short stack, but would soon after win a decent pot to jump ahead of Moorman. No help came for Heath on the board as Sotiropoulos hit top pair, and he was eliminated in fifth place for $1,583,100. Sotiropoulos, with A ♣ 7 ♣ in the big blind, put him all in and he made the call. In his final hand, he raised to 12,900,000 with Q ♥ J ♦, leaving just 5,000,000 behind. Heath, who entered the tournament with nearly $20 million in The Hendon Mob cashes, was next to bust (fifth place for $1,583,100) moments after having his chip stack decimated by Lichtenberger. He was finding the right mix of luck and well-timed aggression to dominate play. Sepiol would then turn a straight against Heath, who rivered two pair, and use that hand to move into the chip lead after starting the day with just 29 big blinds.

The sixth-place finisher took home $1,207,000.

He'd nearly doubled his stack at that point simply by being being the aggressor.Ĭoincidentally, an hour or so later, Martirosian would move all in with the pocket fives, and Sepiol would call with pocket sevens and hold up. Moments later, Sepiol showed some more aggression when he jammed preflop with 5 ♦ 5 ♣ to force the shortest stack, Martirosian, off A ♣ 10 ♦.

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