It came to be a tough battle when Steve Sung and Panayote Vilandos played heads-up on the final table. Steve had 10 million chips and Panayote 8 million chips. But everything came to a sudden end after that Steve picked up KK and got his money in against Panayote's pocket 8's.
Event #4 in World Series of Poker attracted a huge starting field of 6012 players, and with that it's the second biggest starting field ever after the WSOP Main Event. Steve Sung and Panayote Vilandos came to be the two last men standing in the tournament after surviving the enormous starting field. Both of them had huge stacks and it seemed like the battle for the first prize of $771,106 could last for many, many hours. But everything suddenly came to an end when two exhausted poker players picked up these hands.
Steve Sung KK
Panayote Vilandos 88
Steve bets 500,000, Panayote then raise to 1,7 million. Steve goes all-in and Panayote calls straight away.
The board ran out A7267
Steve Sung took home the pot and the tournaments with 2 pairs (kings and 7's) against Panayote Vilandos lower 2 pairs (8's and 7's).
Final table results:
1 Steve Sung $771 106
2 Panayote Vilandos $473 283
3 James Matz III $313 826
4 Larry Sidebotham $227 254
5 Nathan Mullen $175 851
6 Dan Heimille $145 009
7 Jeff Oakes $126 613
8 Phong Huynh $117 414
9 Danny Fuhs $114 168