Thursday, 2 July 2020

Raw deal served up in Event #1 of WSOP Online as Hellmuth & Dunst goes close


hellmuth-dunst-goes-closeA dramatic conclusion to the opening WSOP bracelet event saw both Phil Hellmuth and Tony Dunst get close to picking up the gold before missing out at the last.

Hellmuth announced his intentions very early in the day as he made his way to Vegas to play the online event:

The tournament saw 1,715 entries including re-entries, with the irrepressible Hellmuth playing under his usual moniker of ‘Lumestackin’, an anagram for ‘Luckiest Man’. For some time, Hellmuth lived up to his name, ducking and diving his way up the leaderboard, constantly threatening the lead.

He wasn’t on his own. With just a handful of tables left, Hellmuth’s old friend Mike Matusow was also still involved, as brought to life in his own inimitable style by Joey Ingram on Twitter, saying “Matusow showing the new generation of poker fans that he still has what it takes in 2020”.

Matusow himself was more than concessionary when he eventually busted in 44th place for $2,623.

Hellmuth would go a lot closer and got into several tangles with his World Poker Tour colleague Tony Dunst. Hellmuth doubled through his WPT cohort when the Poker Brat check-raised all-in on a 3-A-9-K board with pocket kings against Dunst’s ace-queen.

Dunst, now shorter than his friend and foe, doubled back through the 15-time WSOP bracelet winner when he managed to make a set on the turn having already been ahead when moving all-in pre-flop with pocket queens against Hellmuth’s ace-ten.

That left Hellmuth a little short compared to the top stacks, but he was once again top dog when he won with pocket jacks against pocket tens. It didn’t last, however. Losing with pocket queens against pocket kings when all-in pre-flop, it was all over when Hellmuth couldn’t hold again with the ladies, this time against ace-king. 

Hellmuth couldn’t resist a little dig at his eventual conqueror when he busted in a pretty standard coinflip spot…

… and just in general about his miserable luck when running deep in the event.

Hellmuth was reminded that he actually came 11th instead of 13th, scoring a return of $7,871. The final nine players included names such as Shawn Daniels and Justin Turner, but it would be Jonathan Dokler who won the bracelet.

It all came down to one hand three-handed, really. Tony Dunst four-bet shoved for 9.4 million chips with pocket nines, Dokler called with ace-king and he rivered a king to take the 19 million chip pot and take a massive 4:1 lead into what would be a brief heads-up.

It was so near and yet so far for Dunst in terms of adding to his WSOP bracelet collection, but for Dokler it was a sweet victory, where so much of the focus had been on The Poker Brat and other huge names, that he kept his head and saw it through, as the WSOP.com page revealed in the early hours of the morning Stateside.

There will be more chances for Hellmuth to add to his collection, but the names involved made it a winning start to the WSOP Online version for poker fans around the world.

WSOP Online Event #1 final table results:

Place

Player

Prize

1st

Jonathan Dokler

$130,425

2nd

Justin Turner

$80,416

3rd

Tony Dunst

$57,881

4th

Shawn Daniels

$42,060

5th

Michael Balan

$30,947

6th

‘ChefShap’

$22,998

7th

‘djp1006’

$17,287

8th

Mark Liedtke

$13,119

9th

Taylor Von Kriegenbergh

$10,109





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