Poker Hall of Fame member and WPT commentator Mike Sexton only had 10 big blinds after Day 2 and 18 big blinds after Day 3, yet he will enter the 6-handed WPT Montreal Main Event final table today with the biggest stack! Sexton finished Day 4 by eliminating Day 3 chip leader Samuel Gagnon in seventh place to take the chip lead.
Gagnon moved all in for 1.375 million holding 10[d]10[s], Sexton ca[...] Read more » WPT Montreal: Mike Sexton Leads Main Event Final Table!
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Go on Mike Sexton!!! I would dearly love to see him take the tournament down and, with his chip stack, must have a very good chance of doing so. I look forward to the next update
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I would take that seventh place any time Not much of a difference though from the first place prize, for 300k. One good thing for being a professional poker player is that you get to travel a lot. You are not stuck iin a place for the rest of your life, in comparison with most of the jobs.
Posted by Mober: I would take that seventh place any time Not much of a difference though from the first place prize, for 300k.
It's like eight times more than the prize for seventh place. You cannot start a poker tournament by single out the goal of 'just getting ITM is plenty enough' because your time should be more valuable than that.
And he won it too, it seems that this tournament was made for him since the start wow. Last hand he was dealt Queens vs King Jack and all went in preflop and he even flop trips lool. Congrats Mike.
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Wow. Mike Sexton made the final table! I did not expect he would make it when he had only 10 big blinds when the day 2 ended. Good luck, Mike Sexton. Good luck also to Ema Zajmovic, the last woman standing.
Posted by Tony_MON7ANA: Wow. Mike Sexton made the final table! I did not expect he would make it when he had only 10 big blinds when the day 2 ended. Good luck, Mike Sexton. Good luck also to Ema Zajmovic, the last woman standing.
By the time you wrote this he actually took down the whole thing.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I really appreciated it. I don't mean to sound like a total prick but your statement above is not literally correct. Mike Sexton had not won the WPT title in Montreal yet when I wrote my comment hours prior to posting it on the forum. This thread is about Mike Sexton leading the final table, so my comment was relevant for the topic. And I did not find it necessary to update a content of the post.
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Gratz to him for the nice winning of the WPT Montreal. He wons a amazing cash prize and i read in another thread at brm that this was his first wpt winning Now he can be a part of the poker hall of fame in my opinion, because he played verry good and serious poker for a long time.
Not much of a difference though from the first place
Now he can be a part of the 
