On Monday, WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic concluded after 4 days of play at The Palace of Drams in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eugene Du Plessis brought 46% of the chips in play to the final table and had a fantastic chance of taking down the whole thing.
Just as many expected, after several hours of play and all short stacks had hit the rail, he had made it to heads-up against Daniel Brits wh[...] Read more » Daniel Brits Wins WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic
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well done to daniel brits for winning this. the last hand played itself and there was nothing eugene could have done about it and he would do the exact same thing again.$132,128 nice early xmas present!
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Du Plessis: JDiamond7Diamond Brits: QSpade8Diamond
Both have good flop , Du Plessis is in better possition and thats why he called when he was reraised by Brits. Brits have more luck and good river. Congratulations to Brits and he take a seat at the WPT World Championship.
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Hmm great play, not a huge prize pool but enough to warrant some attention. Yeah the flop was a flip both got in with their money good, so basically it was left to chance to see who was going to win.
Just sad that Eugene Du Plessis did not use his stack advantage when he had like 46 % of the chips. Anyway good matchup!
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Never heard of ANY of those guys...! Not a big enough prize to draw any of the poker superstars down there,...but 100K+ is a very nice prize, and a hell of a lot more than I'VE ever won... about 1000 times more...
There's enough cash there for the top few guys to buy themselves into a bunch more live tourneys and hopefully snowball their winnings up into heaps of cash,....and make a name for themselves...!
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Nice way to this - sometimes the final hand is terrible or just bad play, the long grind makes players shove with weak stuff, but this was a great AI with a possible flush draw and just under 50% to win it, must have been nerve wracking to watch.
Hope this brings some publicity to South Africa and poker there.
