Poker news tagged with 'festa al lago'

Randal Flowers, 22, is the youngest player ever to win multiple WPT titles after he won the WPT Festa al Lago Main Event this morning. What makes this even more impressing is that he did it within 2 months time and also because he knocked out 4 of 5 opponents on the final table. For the win of the WPT Festa al Lago Main event Flowers received the first place prize of $831,500! This is how the final hand was played out.

Hand #96: Level 30: Blinds: 80-000/160,000, 15,000 ante

Flowers raises to 333,000, and Benvenuti calls. The flop comes 9[s]6[c]5[s]. Benvenuti checks, Flowers bets 420,000. Benvenuti goes all in.

Flowers thinks for a few seconds before he decides to call.

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It's finally time for another stop on the WPT tour - WPT Festa al Lago. This time it's Bellagio in Las Vegas' turn and many of the world's best poker players are supposed to show up and take part in the main event with a $10,300 buy-in at 21:00 CET tonight. WPT Festa al Lago will be going on for 6 days and the main event final table will be played next Wednesday.

There are lots of side events for those who don't do so well in the main event or simply decide not to play it. For some strange reason there is no high roller event this time, but the WPT crew has promised many $5,000 events. 

Tommy Vedes from New York had a really tough fight for the win on the final table. Many times he almost went out, but then got very lucky on the river. In one of the key pots that brought him to the top, he was all-in with A-10 versus A-J and got a 10 on the river. Down to heads-up Vedes had a massive chip lead with over 13 million chips against his final opponent Jason Lavellee's 2.5 million chips.

This is how the final hand was played out (Blinds: 100,000/200,000 - Ante: 20,000).

Lavellee moves all-in with 2,775,000, and Vedes quickly calls with K[d]Q[d]. Lavellee shows 8[h]6[h]. The flop comes A[d]9[s]5[c], and Lavellee picks up a gutshot straight draw. The turn card is Q[c]. At this point Lavellee only have four 7's that can give him the pot. The river card is a Q[s], and everything is over. Tommy Vedes received $1,218,225 for the win, and Jason Lavellee $795,150.

Final table results:
1st: Tommy Vedes - $1,218,225
2nd: Jason Lavallee - $795,150
3rd: Craig Crivello - $477,090
4th: Freddy Deeb - $278,300
5th: Jason Burt - $208,725
6th: Shawn Cunix - $168,970