<img align="right" src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Pindarots/Juni08/corwincole.jpg" style="margin:5px; border: 0px solid black;">2693 players enlisted for one of their last chances of a bracelet, making it a $3,675,945 prizepool and a sweet $625,443 waiting for the best or luckiest player of the bunch. The final $1500 No-Limit Hold'em at the World Series of Poker this year had a lot of people wanting to make up for their WSOP so far, in one way or another. Less than 10 percent of the field would make it to day 2, amongst them was our own Corwin Cole, aka [vital]Myth<img src="http://www.tlpoker.com.br/staff/Raidern/greenstar1.png" style="border: 0px solid black;" >, with about an average stack he was sure of cashing in this event, 270 players would get paid, but of course he wouldn’t settle for just a small cash. Corwin started the day at table 16 out of 27, with a kind of average stack there:
Josh Paeth 58,000
Eric Jolly 76,100
Corwin Cole 51,300
Paulus Valkenburg 24,000
Mike Yee 33,000
Feming Chan 105,400
Marc Levy 26,000
Chris Johnson 26,300
Alon Shahar 27,700
A few hours in we see a decisive hand, where Corwin calls John Monnette all-in with   against the AKo of Monnette. His 9’s hold and he gets chipped up to 153,000. A few hours after that we see his name pop up again, this time knocking out Michael Andrews on another flip, Cole’s 88 vs Andrews’ KJo. Needless to say the myth goes on, this time chipping up to 523,000! With 27 players left, we get a redraw, this time we’ll see Myth back at table one, with: Scott Sitron, Paulo Nunes, Eric Jolly, Matt Matros, Petter Fransson, Voitto Rintala, Jeffery Courtney and Martin Cardno. Players get knocked out, from 3 tables back to 2, and we get some more information when tables get merged, Myth has lost some chips and is seeted wwith about an average stack:
<img align="right" src="http://www.tlpoker.be/staff/Pindarots/Juni08/voittorintala.jpg" style="margin:5px; border: 0px solid black;">
Matt Matros 830,000
Eric Jolly 160,000
Todd Hanks 520,000
Cody Slaubaugh 120,000
Farzad Rouhani 460,000
Elliot Smith 320,000
Scott Sitron 450,000
Voitto Rintala 710,000 (see picture)
Corwin Cole 350,000
Soon after that, a sick, sick hand happens: Elliot Smith raises to 40k, Scott Sitron reraises to 110k from late position, and Myth decides to go all-in from the button. Eric Jolly calls allin from the big blind for about 130k, Smith folds and Sitron calls. Showdown:
Sitron:  
Myth:  
Jolly:  
The flop brought    . The turn of  brought no help and Cole was on the verge of extinction, but the river brought a miracle  and Myth was back up to 950k! Sitron was left with 250k and a very bad feeling in his stomach. For Myth it’s the stuff that dreams are made of, for Sitron it’s more like a nightmare. Myth continued to reign at his table, later he knocked out Elliot Smith with 88 vs AKs (king of flips or just selective live reporting?  ). Anyway, Myth is up to 1.2mln chips, with 13 players left.
It’s getting late, but there’s no sign that Cole wants to slow down, when he gets in a big pot, again with Scott Sitron. Sitron raises from the cutoff to 55k, Cole reraises to 175k from the small blind, while Sitron calls. Flop of   makes Cole check, followed by a very quick check of Sitron (for most lowstakes players that means they’re drawing for something). The  on the turn made Cole bet 260k, Sitron calls. A  on the river makes Cole confidently make a bet: 600.000 chips. Sitron had to chose for his tournament life, he thought for a long time, 9 minutes before they called the clock! In the end Sitron finally folds, putting Cole up to 1.45 million, Sitron is left with 600k. At 3.30 AM we finally have our final table when Gary Biggar gets knocked out by David Daneshgar. That means chips can be counted, and we see Corwin Cole as the chipleader!
Updated Chipcounts
Corwin Cole (San Diego, California) -- 1,668,000
Matt Matros (Brooklyn, New York) -- 1,472,000
Jeff Courtney (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) -- 1,443,000
David Daneshgar (Westlake Village, California) -- 1,178,000
Voitto Rintala (Helsinki, Finland) -- 553,000
Dan Heimiller (Plymouth, Michigan) -- 544,000
Andrey Zaichenko (Moscow, Russia) -- 521,000
Scott Sitron (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) -- 504,000
Farzad Rouhani (Germantown, Maryland) -- 212,000
<img align="right" src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Pindarots/Juni08/mattmatros.jpg" style="margin:5px; border: 0px solid black;">Starting as a chipleader he’ll definitely stand a chance, but it won’t be easy (is it ever easy to win a bracelet?). The shortstack, Farzad Rouhani, already won a bracelet in event 10, Scott Sitron wants his revenge for the earlier beat by Cole. Zaichenko already cashed 3x during this WSOP before, all during No Limit Hold’em events. Dan Heimiller is a braceletwinner from 2002, very experienced with 31 WSOP-cashes. Voitto Rintala just looks sick (see picture above), yet his results aren’t as scary as his eyes ($64k tournament winnings). David Daneshgar is the best known player at the table, with over $1.7mln tournamentwinnings, and a lot of experience at final tables in the WSOP, EPT and WPT. Jeffrey Courtney is an unknown, we’ll have to see how he’ll perform. That can’t be said about Matt Matros (see picture). With 3 cashes this WSOP and 880k tournament earnings, he’s just getting started, playing very well he’ll be a tough competitor for Myth. He's also know for writing a pokerbook: "The Making Of A Poker Player: How An Ivy League Math Geek Learned To Play Championship Poker", which appears to be quite a joy to read. Let's just hope he won't have to add another chapter about how he won his bracelet to that
Tomorrow you’ll know if [vital]Myth<img src="http://www.tlpoker.com.br/staff/Raidern/greenstar1.png" style="border: 0px solid black;" > can win another LP-bracelet, we wish him the best of luck.
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