Joe Beevers Wins Ladbrokes Poker MillionHendon Mobster Beats Marty Smyth to $1 Million Prize |
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Londoner Joe Beevers has won the Ladbrokes Poker Million VI, beating current Irish Open champion Marty Smyth heads-up to take down the $1 million first prize.
Beevers started the six-man final table, broadcast live last night on Sky Sports 2, as fourth favourite.
The chip counts at the beginning of play were:
Cox was first out followed soon after by Lederer who ran his 4-4 into Gardner's K-K. Flood was busted in fourth, crippled when his 6-6 was up against Beevers 2-2 which hit a 2 then all-in with Q4 against an ace and didn't improve.
By this stage the action was fast and furious with high blinds resulting in lots of all-ins and the chip lead rotating regularly. Gardner pushed with A-10 only to be called by Smyth with A-J and he exited third.
Smyth started the head-up battle as chip leader but lost it to Beevers when his Q-Q was overcome by Beevers K-4 which rivered a king. Smyth recovered to even things up around 600,000 in chips but the final hand saw Beevers nines hold up with all the chips in the middle and the Hendon Mobster picked up $1 million for his efforts.
The $25,000 buy-in event had $500,000 added to the prize pool by Ladbrokes, bringing the prize money at the final table to more than $2 million.
The pay outs were:
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