Finals Set For Doubles Poker Championship

The last semifinals match of Full Tilt’s Doubles Poker Championship aired Saturday on GSN, and the four teams who will compete in the finals have now been decided.

Sitting down to play for the remaining two spots in the finals were the teams of: Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren and Johnny Chan, David Benyamine and Tony G, and Phil Galfond and Annette Obrestad.

After getting involved in some early big pots and trading chips back and forth with the other teams at the table, Galfond-Obrestad were eliminated after getting all-in preflop with 10-7 against Ivey-Ferguson’s A-5. Ivey’s hand hit top pair on the flop and held through the river, making Galfond-Obrestad the first elimination of the day.

The next elimination came when the team of Lindgren-Chan raised to 60,000 preflop and called when Ivey-Ferguson moved all in. Lindgren held K-Q and was trailing Ivey’s A-9. The board ran J-10-10-7-8, and Lindgren-Chan came up just short of making the finals.

Their elimination meant that Ivey-Ferguson and Benyamine-Tony G will be moving on to this Saturday’s finals of the Doubles Poker Championship. The two teams continued playing heads-up to decide who would take a chip advantage to the finals.

In the end, Benyamine raised to 100,000 with A-J and Ferguson moved all in with pocket tens. Benyamine called, having Ferguson covered. The board ran K-3-2-A-4 to give Benyamine-Tony G a pair of aces and the win. They will now take 600,000 into the finals match, and Ivey-Ferguson will have to settle with a starting stack of 400,000.

The finals will air this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on GSN.

Here’s a look at the final four teams who will be competing for the $1 million first place prize:

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