September 27 2012, Donnie Peters, Remko Rinkema
Another event wrapped up on Thursday at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe as Giovanni Rosadoni found himself in the winner’s circle of Event #4: “3,250 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout. On top of that, Day 2 of Event #5: “10,450 Mixed Max – No-Limit Hold’em concluded and Event #6: “1,650 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha kicked off. Check out recaps from all of those events thanks to PokerNews’ coverage sponsored by PartyPoker.
Giovanni Rosadoni Wins Event #4: “3,250 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout
After three days of exciting poker action, Giovanni Rosadoni emerged victorious over the 141-player field to take home his first WSOP gold bracelet and “107,614. Rosadoni defeated Dan O’Brien heads up to earn the victory.
Event #4 Final Table Results
| 1 | Giovanni Rosadoni | “107,614 |
| 2 | Dan O’Brien | “66,503 |
| 3 | John Monnette | “48,177 |
| 4 | Oleksii Kovalchuk | “35,560 |
| 5 | Adrien Allain | “26,724 |
| 6 | Paul Guichard | “20,434 |
| 7 | Roman Romanovskyi | “15,890 |
| 8 | Trond Aanensen | “12,564 |
| 9 | John Duthie | “10,095 |
| 10 | Valentin Messina | “8,239 |
On Wednesday’s Day 2, the 20 first-round winners of Event #4 returned for action. The plan was to play down to a winner. The 20 players who returned were in the money and included Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Matt Stout, Faraz Jaka and Mohsin Charania, among others. Unfortunately for those five players, and a handful of others, they fell short of the final table.
When the field was cut to 10, the field redrew for the official final table. Valentin Messina was the first player eliminated, and was followed out the door by John Duthie. Trond Aanensen, Roman Romanovskyi, Paul Guichard and Adrien Allain fell in eighth, seventh, sixth and fifth place, respectively, before leaving the final four players.
Among the final group were two WSOP bracelet winners, Oleksii Kovalchuk and John Monnette, as well as Dan O’Brien and Giovanni Rosadoni.
Kovalchuk was first to fall in fourth place, taking home “35,560 after his 
lost to O’Brien’s 
. Then, Monnette went out in third place, also at the hands of O’Brien. His 
didn’t out race O’Brien’s 
. That left O’Brien and Rosadoni heads up, and, when the match began, O’Brien had the lead with 776,000 in chips to Rosadoni’s 501,000.
After approximately two hours of heads-up play, the two were forced to halt the match for the night because the casino was closing at 5:00 a.m. At the end of the day, Rosadoni was in front with a stack of 787,000 to O’Brien’s 490,000.
At 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, the two returned to continue the duel and to find a winner. Rosadoni seemed to pick up right where he left off. He had O’Brien down low, but then a comeback was in order. After a couple of double-ups, O’Brien snatched the lead back and put his foot on the gas. He ground Rosadoni down once again, but could never finish.
Rosadoni stayed strong and then found a big double with pocket kings when they held against O’Brien’s 
. From there, it was all Rosadoni as he closed the door more and more with every hand.
On the final hand, O’Brien was all in preflop with 
. Rosadoni seemed to always have it and did again this time with 
. Despite flopping a pair of jacks and turning a flush draw, O’Brien was eliminated as the board ran out 
. He earned “66,503.
Prior to this result, Rosadoni’s largest and only score on record was for “9,000. He has topped that by a lot more after winning this event for “107,614.
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Day 2 of Event #5: “10,450 Mixed Max – No-Limit Hold’em Concludes; Welcome to the Brandon Cantu Show
The six-handed portion of the “10,450 Mixed Max – No-Limit Hold’em event came to an end on Friday. The 52 remaining players from a starting field of 96 returned for action and played down to the final 16, which means that winning four heads up matches will secure a World Series of Poker Europe bracelet for one of them. Brandon Cantu emerged as the clear chip leader by holding over 25 percent of the total chips in play.
Cantu ran incredibly hot all day and began his streak during a massive preflop three-way all in where two players were coolered. Cantu held pocket aces and managed to eliminate Ognjen Sekularac who held pocket kings and Andy Frankenberger who held pocket queens. Cantu continued his domination throughout the day, even after Phil Hellmuth was moved next to him. Hellmuth and Cantu went to war throughout the evening and were seemingly constantly bickering as play went on. Hellmuth vowed revenge on Cantu and he will get that chance as the two will play heads up together in Round 1. Hellmuth will have his work cut out for him as he is sporting a stack of 127,400 to Cantu’s 738,100
Players were finding the rail at a rapid pace up until the bubble hit. Hand-for-hand play lasted for several hours and everyone was anxiously awaiting the last person to be eliminated. Finally, Mori Eskandani fell by the hands of Marvin Rettenmaier, and each of the 16 remaining players were guaranteed a payday of at least “20,443.
After a random seeding, here is the heads-up bracket:
| 1 | Paul Tedeschi | 278,600 | 5 | Faraz Jaka | 258,100 | ||||
| vs. | vs. | ||||||||
| Roger Hairabedian | 225,600 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 66,300 | ||||||
| 2 | Kristijonas Andrulis | 142,000 | 6 | Konstantin Puchkov | 183,700 | ||||
| vs. | vs. | ||||||||
| Mike Watson | 50,700 | Bertrand Grospellier | 18,000 | ||||||
| 3 | Martin Jacobson | 164,900 | 7 | Jennifer Tilly | 163,300 | ||||
| vs. | vs. | ||||||||
| Joe Keuther | 37,100 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 191,100 | ||||||
| 4 | Brandon Cantu | 738,100 | 8 | Jason Mercier | 16,800 | ||||
| vs. | vs. | ||||||||
| Phil Hellmuth | 127,400 | Jonathan Aguiar | 212,200 |
Two rounds will be played on Friday at 1400 CET (0800 EDT) which will result in the emergence of the top four players, who will then return on Saturday to play to a winner.
Benyamine, Negreanu and Lichtenberger Primed to Cash in Event #6: “1,650 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha
Event #6: “1,650 Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha attracted 206 players on Thursday, and after eight levels of play, 26 remained with Jacob Dahl leading the way. Like in any pot-limit Omaha tournament, the action was fast paced in the Majestic Barriere poker room. Andrew Lichtenberger got off to a great start, but that can’t be said for all players including defending champ Philippe Boucher, Fabrice Soulier and Antonio Esfandiari. The aforementioned players were eliminated in the first level, and many followed suit.
John Monnette took care off Vanessa Selbst in the early levels as he took the chip lead going into the first break. Justin Bonomo trended in the same direction, but later in the day he couldn’t get anything going and was eliminated. Monnette on the other hand managed to survive and will return on Friday with 32,300 for his chance of cashing a third event at this year’s World Series of Poker Europe.
One of the most entertaining hands of the day took place between four players. The winner and runner-up of the 2005 WSOP Main Event, Joe Hachem and Steve Dannenmann, were both involved, as were Scott Seiver and Micah Smith. The latter took out all three players when he managed to hit a runner-runner full house. Smith survived Day 1 with 38,500.
Toward the end of the day, pots grew bigger, and Daniel Negreanu got caught up in a very serious one. He could not beat John Eames’ set, and eventually survived the day with a mediocre 22,200. Eames bagged 43,100. Other notable survivors are David Benyamine (67,700), Ana Marquez (58,200), Lichtenberger (63,900) and Dan Shak (24,800). The remaining 26 players will return on Friday to play through the money bubble to the final table of six.
Event #6 Top 10 Chips Counts
| 1 | Jacob Dahl | 74,200 |
| 2 | David Benyamine | 67,700 |
| 3 | Aku Joentausta | 66,400 |
| 4 | Andrew Lichtenberger | 63,900 |
| 5 | Ana Marquez | 58,200 |
| 6 | Nikolas Volper | 52,400 |
| 7 | Antoine Pacaud | 48,500 |
| 8 | Raul Paez | 45,500 |
| 9 | Dan Smith | 45,400 |
| 10 | John Eames | 43,100 |
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September 18 2012, Chad Holloway
On Sunday night, the World Poker Tour Season X continued on Fox Sports Network with Part I of the $100,000 Super High Roller, which took place alongside the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio back in May.
On Day 1 of the event, 26 players, including Phil Galfond, David “Doc” Sands, Justin “Boosted J” Smith, Masa Kagawa, Robert Zeps, Brian Hastings and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, forked over the $100,000 buy-in. Eventually six players were eliminated and took advantage of the reentry – Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Galen Hall, Tom Marchese, Andrew Robl and Cary Katz.
As the day wore on, Sam Trickett joined the action, and Negreanu busted his second buy-in after his 
ran into the 
of Galfond. “Everything went wrong in this 100K for me…not rebuying anymore,” Negreanu tweeted shortly after taking his leave. Others who joined him on the rail throughout the day were Grospellier, Michael Parziale, Robert Zeps and Clemenceau Calixto.
Day 1 ended with 19 players and Justin Bonomo’s stack of 1.433 million leading the way. Registration was open up until the start of Day 2, and that inspired poker pro Sorel Mizzi to give it a shot. Likewise, Calixto opted to give it another go and reentered the tournament, which created a $3.3 million prize pool.
Mizzi’s late registration didn’t go as planned because he busted within an hour of entering, and Dan Shak, Mercier, Katz, Calixto, Sands, Smith and Galfond soon followed him out the door. When Hastings exited in 10th place, the final nine players combined to one table and looked to play down to the official final table of six – though only five were slated to get paid.
, eliminating Smith.Here’s how things stacked up at the start of the final table:
WPT Season X $100,000 Super High Roller Open Final Table
| 1 | Bill Klein | 620,000 (12 BBs) |
| 2 | John Juanda | 1,875,000 (37 BBs) |
| 3 | Tom Marchese | 2,235,000 (44 BBs) |
| 4 | Daniel Perper | 3,415,000 (68 BBs) |
| 5 | Justin Bonomo | 2,105,000 (42 BBs) |
| 6 | Andrew Robl | 3,355,000 (67 BBs) |
Where is JJ?: There was one man mysteriously absent at the start of the final table, and that was six-time WPT finalist John Juanda, who finished runner-up to Gus Hansen in the first-ever WPT event at the Bellagio. “First place is over $1.3 million and the guy’s not even here, it’s just incredible to me, but you do blind the guy off and ante him off, so however long that takes for him to go broke,” Mike Sexton said before choosing Bonomo as his pick to win it.
Playing for Charity: In the very first hand of the broadcast, Tom Marchese opened for 100,000 with 
only to have Daniel Perper three-bet to 240,000. Bill Klein proceeded to moved all in for 615,000 from the big blind with 
.
Interestingly, Klei, the amateur, had pledged to donate 100% of his winnings to charity; what’s more, he had promised to contribute another $100,000 to charity even if he busted in sixth place on the money bubble. As it was, Marchese folded the best hand and Perper called with the worst to put Klein at risk. Klein, who you may recognize from some episodes of High Stakes Poker, was a 68 percent favorite, but that dropped to 60 percent on the 
flop. The 
turn bumped it up to 75 percent, and the 
river gave him a double to 1.41 million on Hand #1.
“I’ve been very blessed in my life. I had cancer in 2003, I’ve been a cancer survivor. Every day is a great day. We’ve been financially blessed. You gotta give back, you gotta get in there and pitch in. You can’t somebody else do it,” Klein said in a side interview.
, and was none too happy when tournament officials informed him that it was a dead hand.The Fashion Report: Mike Sexton believes finalists should look good at the feature table; as such, in our Part I recaps I like to offer a short and sweet fashion report on each player:
Bill Klein: A baby blue polo with a black baseball cap. Definitely not anything special, but somewhat fitting since you got the feeling this amateur would be left black and blue by the professionals at the table. Grade: C+
John Juanda: A brown-and-white squared short-sleeve button-up. Nothing too fancy, but the colors looked good on Juanda. Grade: B
Tom Marchese: A grey t-shirt with what appeared to be black flames rising up. C’mon Tom. Grade: D
Daniel Perper: Slicked back hair with a silky black button-up. It was the sort of shirt you might see at a nightclub, but it looked good. Grade: B+
Justin Bonomo: A similar getup to Perper, Bonomo sported a long-sleeve black button-up, though the sleeves were up and cuffed. It looked pretty sleek. Grade: A-
Andrew Robl: You might think he planned his outfit with Bonomo and Perper, because he was wearing – you guessed it – a black button-up. “He looks a little like a poor man’s Matt Damon, doesn’t he,” said Vince Van Patten. Grade: B+
The Bubble Boy: In Hand #13 of the final table, with the blinds at 25,000/50,000 and a 5,000 ante, Justin Bonomo min-raised from the cutoff with 
only to have John Juanda three-bet to 300,000 from the big blind with 
. Bonomo thought for a few moments before making the call, and then watched Juanda move all in on the 
flop. Bonomo had flopped top pair with top kicker, and he called off his remaining 1.9 million.
Bonomo, who only had an 18 percent chance of survival, looked dejected and stared at the table as the 
turned. That dropped his chances to win down to just 8 percent, but the useless 
peeled off on the river and his day was done. Bonomo composed himself enough to shake hands with the remaining players, but you could tell he was extremely disappointed to be leaving empty handed on the $263,160 money bubble.
“It sucks, there’s not really much other way to put it,” Bonomo told Jessica Welman in his post-elimination interview. “The World Series is coming up, so hopefully I’ll do well there. I can’t complain too much, life is good.”
Tune in Next Week: Part II of the WPT World Championship Super High Roller is set to air on Sunday, Sept. 23, on FSN, so be sure to check your local listings. If by chance you miss it, check back next week for the latest recap of all the action here on PokerNews.
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