Wed, 08/03/2011 – 01:38 – PokerPages Staff

FSN continued its coverage of Season IX of the World Poker Tour at the weekend with action from the showpiece World Championship. The $25,000 event, which featured Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Katchalov, played out at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event champion Galen Hall led the way at the final table of six. The poker pro locked horns with Farzad Bonyadi during one of the first hands of the episode after calling down a pre-flop shove with A-10. Bonyadi had Hall crushed with A-A and the board offered no help as Bonyadi doubled through to 2.33 million chips.

Bonyadi then picked off a triple barreled bluff from Roger Teska. Teska fired 125,000, 350,000 and 650,000 bets post-flop with complete air but could not force his opponent off a top pair of Kings. Bonyadi snared the 2.76 million pot.

Justin Young was the first player to depart after running his A-J into Hall’s A-K. Young had insta-called a pre-flop shove from Hall but could not find any salvation on the 4-3-5-10-6 board as he collected a $225,654 share for his 6th placed finish.

Tony Gargano joined Young on the rail during the final hand of the episode. The dominant Scott Seiver called down a 2,020,000 shove from Gargano with A-K. Gargano only had a 30 percent chance to remain alive with K-J and failed to connect with the A-3-8-6-4 board as he landed a $278,749 sum for his deep run.

For all of the results from Season IX of the World Poker Tour visit the PokerPages Tournament Database.