Buy-In: | $5,000 |
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Prize Pool: | $3,199,200 |
Entrants: | 688 |
After six days of poker, including the two starting days, the Card Player Poker Tour Venetian main event wrapped up late Saturday. Javier Gomez of Spain won the event after a lengthy final table, which brings his lifetime tournament earnings to more than $1.5 million.
Gomez was the chip leader going into the final table, but he overcame a back-and-forth battle with Germany’s Paul Hoefer. Former WSOP main event champion Martin Jacobson finished third. The players ended up making a deal three-handed. They agreed to a chop based on chip counts but to leave $135,000 (paid equally from each player) to play for, as well as the Card Player trophy.
At one point, the final three players agreed that they were playing too deep and they changed the structure by doubling the blinds from 50,000-100,000 to 100,000-200,000. After Jacobson finished third, the blinds were soon bumbled to 120,000-240,000. After at least an hour of those stakes, Gomez and Hoefer agreed to a mandatory button bet of 480,000. The two were looking to end the stalemate. In the second hand with blind button bet, Hoefer was all in with K-Q against Gomez and K-2. Gomez flopped kings and deuces, but he ended up being counterfeited on the river.
Hoefer had a commanding lead after that hand, as both players looked pretty relaxed and were each enjoying a beer. Budweiser for the Spaniard and Corona for the German.
Paul Hoefer
The board ran out 95
2
6
3
to send the German to the rail in second for a nearly $400,000 score thanks to the three-handed deal.
The money bubble burst on day 3, with the final 72 players earning at least a couple of buy-ins back. A min-cash was worth $10,557. The event drew a massive field of 688 entries, building a $3,199,200 prize pool that blew away the $2,000,000 guarantee.
Here’s a look at the final payouts:
1. Javier Gomez — $561,349
2. Paul Hoefer — $393,621
3. Martin Jacobson — $398,303
4. Yan Shing Tsang — $220,745
5. Ankush Mandavia — $166,358
6. Bobby Suer — $124,769
7. Renick Patterson — $95,976
8. Dimitar Danchev — $76,781
9. Samuel Bernabeu — $57,586
Paul Hoefer
The board ran out 95
2
6
3
, to send the German to the rail in second for a nearly $400,000 score thanks to the three-handed deal.
The board was 84
4
, and Gomez checked. Hoefer bet 300,000, and Gomez check-raised to 700,000. Hoefer called. The turn brought the 5
, and Gomez bet 1.2 million. Hoefer called. The river was the K
, and Gomez shoved for 4.6 million. Hoefer had him covered only by 2.6 million and tank-called with 9-8. Gomez tabled K-4 for a full house.
Hoefer — 2.6 million
Gomez — 14.6 million
Hoefer: 11 million
Gomez: 6.2 million
Paul Hoefer
The flop brought the K2
8
to give Gomez two pair and the lead. The J
on the turn changed nothing, but the J
on the river counterfeited Gomez’s two pair and Hoefer’s kings and jacks with a queen kicker earned him the double up. He now sits with 11.6 million.
Gomez: 12.9 million
Hoefer: 4.3 million
The blinds are up, and the players have agreed to play 120,000-240,000 with antes of 20,000.
Javier Gomez
There were 17.2 million chips in play and Gomez had all but about three million.
There was betting until the river, with Hoefer checking to Gomez on a board reading 94
3
8
J
. Gomez shoved, and Hoefer called. Gomez had J
2
for a pair of jacks on the river, and they were good against Hoefer’s K
8
. The chips were about even at 8.6 million apiece.
Martin Jacobson
Jacobson called with the 88
and was racing against Hoefer’s K
J
.
The board ran out 104
2
K
5
and Hoefer paired his king to secure the pot and send the 2014 World Series of Poker main event champion to the rail in third place. He earned $398,303, per his share of the three handed deal made earlier.
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1 |
David Coleman $115,989 |
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2 |
Andrew Rodgers $103,936 |
3 |
Ankush Mandavia $95,149 |
4 |
James Leonard $87,820 |
5 |
Louis Cheffy $82,666 |
6 |
Baurzhan Akimov $63,943 |
7 |
Richard Collins $59,914 |
8 |
Michael Rossitto $59,784 |
9 |
Gourg Khanchat $58,530 |
10 |
Terry Fleischer $45,598 |