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.
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Steve Sung played it very well, he was most agressive all trough the final table. At first it looked like he made a bad choice by doing that when he got shortstacked from over 3 million to only 870k. After that he was on a roll winning every hand he raised. While raising about 20% of hands preflop. It was only when the table was reduced to 3 players that he lost some important hands making his 4-to-1 lead on the other a bit smaller. Watched most of it live at the internet stream, was nice to watch.
A well deserved win, Steve always play some good NL Hold'em in live big MTTs but always unlucky when he reached final tables. Believe me Steve is gonna win more in the future congrats...
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OK, we are talking about a 6.000 player WSOP tournament where the chances of geting a place in the final table are like 1 to 6.000 but, after getting there, ensuring a good money reward, one got to have cold blood in order to achieve the best result possible. (Who am i to criticize pros?) I think Vilandos trusted too much in the power of his 88's in the end. Steve's the first to bet, and the first going all in, so, he is beting everything he achieved in his two cards. He passed the same difficulties Vilandos had to get there, and he is available to put everything he won in that hand. Perhaps Vilandos thought he wouldn't get a better hand than that and a wouldn't have a better chance than that to try and win the tournament. If so he did well, if not...
congrats...
