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Wednesday 19th December 2007 ‘Eu Can’t Katch Me!’ – Katchalov Wins Doyle Brunson Classic
The final six players sat down at 4pm, and it was all over in just 53 hands. It should be a lot of fun for the editing team to make a show out of that one! Eugene Katchalov won $2,482,605 for his first place finish, capturing the lion’s share of the largest tournament prize pool outside of the WSOP and WPT Championship.
Katchalov started play with 8,360,000 in chips, with Jordan Rich following in second on 6,535,000. The other plaers on the table had no more than 1,900,000 each, and on the first hand of play the micro stack of Ryan Daut moved all in for 330,000. Daut’s Ah-Jd was looked up by Ted Kearly who woke up with pocket eights in the small blind. No improvement, no Daut, and the Bellagio was down to five.
The two monster stacks then tangled, not for the first time in proceedings either. Rich raised from the button up to 220,000 which Katchalov called from the small blind. The flop came Q-J-8 rainbow, and the fun began:
Katchalov checked.
Rich bet 320,000.
Katchalov raised to 840,000.
Rich re-raised to 1,620,000.
Katchalov re-re-raised to 2,640,000.
At this point Rich was the first to blink, shaking his head as he folded and surrendered 25% of his chips in one fell swoop.
Thirteen hands later and Rich bowed out in fifth place. Katchalov raised under the gun, and Rich reraised from the big blind, making it a million to go. Katchalov moved in and Rich called, although he must have felt it wasn’t meant to be when his pocket jacks were dominated by Eugene’s pocket aces. The board bricked out, and Katchalov took a monster chip lead.
The juggernaut kept on rolling as Katchalov went on to knock out Ken Rosen in fourth and David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott (yes, he was at the table during all this) in third. Heads up between Ted Kearly and Katchalov didn’t last long either, Kearly picking a bad time to move in on the flop after Katchalov had hit top pair.
So it was done; 53 hands of total poker carnage, Eugene Katchalov the winner and almost $2.5m richer. Not bad work, if you can get it.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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