‘Eu Can’t Katch Me!’ – Katchalov Wins Doyle Brunson Classic
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
The final six players sat down at 4pm, and it was all over in just
53 hands. It should be a lot of fun for the editing team to make a
show out of that one! Eugene Katchalov won $2,482,605 for his first
place finish, capturing the lion’s share of the
The final six players sat down at 4pm, and it was all over in just
53 hands. It should be a lot of fun for the editing team to make a
show out of that one! Eugene Katchalov won $2,482,605 for his first
place finish, capturing the lion’s share of the largest tournament
prize pool outside of the WSOP and WPT Championship.
Katchalov started play with 8,360,000 in chips, with Jordan Rich
following in second on 6,535,000. The other plaers on the table had
no more than 1,900,000 each, and on the first hand of play the
micro stack of Ryan Daut moved all in for 330,000. Daut’s Ah-Jd was
looked up by Ted Kearly who woke up with pocket eights in the small
blind. No improvement, no Daut, and the Bellagio was down to
five.
The two monster stacks then tangled, not for the first time in
proceedings either. Rich raised from the button up to 220,000 which
Katchalov called from the small blind. The flop came Q-J-8 rainbow,
and the fun began:
Katchalov checked.
Rich bet 320,000.
Katchalov raised to 840,000.
Rich re-raised to 1,620,000.
Katchalov re-re-raised to 2,640,000.
At this point Rich was the first to blink, shaking his head as
he folded and surrendered 25% of his chips in one fell swoop.
Thirteen hands later and Rich bowed out in fifth place.
Katchalov raised under the gun, and Rich reraised from the big
blind, making it a million to go. Katchalov moved in and Rich
called, although he must have felt it wasn’t meant to be when his
pocket jacks were dominated by Eugene’s pocket aces. The board
bricked out, and Katchalov took a monster chip lead.
The juggernaut kept on rolling as Katchalov went on to knock out
Ken Rosen in fourth and David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott (yes, he was at
the table during all this) in third. Heads up between Ted Kearly
and Katchalov didn’t last long either, Kearly picking a bad time to
move in on the flop after Katchalov had hit top pair.
So it was done; 53 hands of total poker carnage, Eugene
Katchalov the winner and almost $2.5m richer. Not bad work, if you
can get it.
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