Event 28: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em (6-handed) |
Winner | Gal Yifrach |
Runners | 868 |
Paid | 131 |
Final Table | 6 |
Player | Position | Points |
Jason Mercier | 16 | 1 |
Erik Seidel | 29 | 1 |
Cliff Josephy | 34 | 1 |
Ryan Riess | 65 | 1 |
John Racener | 81 | 1 |
Selector | Points | | Selector | Points |
Barrie 1 | 2 | | Jake | 1 |
Chris H 1 | 2 | | James 1 | 1 |
Chris K | 2 | | James 2 | 1 |
Debbie | 2 | | Jo 1 | 1 |
Richard | 2 | | Joe | 1 |
Adam | 1 | | Jon | 1 |
Brian | 1 | | Luca 1 | 1 |
Carl 1 | 1 | | Nic 1 | 1 |
Craig 1 | 1 | | Paxo 1 | 1 |
Dave | 1 | | Rob | 1 |
Del | 1 | | Simon B | 1 |
Derek | 1 | | Stephen 1 | 1 |
English Tom 1 | 1 | | Stephen 2 | 1 |
English Tom 2 | 1 | | Stuart | 1 |
Gareth | 1 | | Tommy | 1 |
Glenn 1 | 1 | | Vince 1 | 1 |
Irish Tom 2 | 1 | | Vince 2 | 1 |
The bracelets are getting sprayed around different countries now, with one for Israel this time.
Yifrach lives in Cali now, running his businesses, and only plays high-roller cash and tournaments. “I'm playing mainly bigger events so it's going to be worth my time.”
He wasn't happy that he had to waste his time hanging around for an extra day to win a bracelet. "I felt like I was going to win it that night. It didn't happen. When the floor announced that we only have 10 minutes left and we can't continue playing, I got a little upset because I was supposed to leave the next morning. I was supposed to be out of here.”
With a 10m-1.6m-1.2m dominating stack three-handed, he called both of the others light in the last hands of Day 3 to try to end it, but just doubled them both up. In the end, he won with a suckout, with stacks almost even, he called James Mackey's Turn shove with A8 on an 8-high board against Mackey's TT, and hit an 8 on the River.
Nice of Mercier to turn up.