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John Phan wins the WPT Legends of Poker

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Raidern   Brasil. Aug 29 2008 23:16. Posts 4248

<img src="http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/Raidern/rsz_johnphan.jpg" align="right" style="margin:5px; border: 1px solid black;">The year of 2008 has definitely been some kind of a breakthrough year to John Phan when we talk about live tournaments. Not only he won his first two bracelets at this year's World Series of Poker, now, after 6 days of competition, he won the <b>2008 Legends of Poker</b>, his first WPT title!

The tournament had a $10,000 buy-in and 373 registered players, 112 shorter than last year. As expected, the event had one of the toughest fields you can find on the circuit, with names like: Erick Lindgren, Men Nguyen, Daniel Negranu, Kathy Liebert, David Pham and Erik Seidel. The internet guys were also there: Isaac "WestmenloA" Baron, Alec "Traheho" Torelli, Matt “Allinat420” Stout and Amit “amak316” Makhija were some of the representatives of the online sharks.

All of the finalists, except for Phan, were debuting in a WPT final table. Phan took advantage of his experience and used the initial chiplead to get to the heads-up against online pro Amit Makhija, who started the hu-play in the chiplead.

It only took a few hands for TheRazor to take the chiplead though. He managed to double up and get an almost 4:1 chiplead when a K on the river gave him the TPTK. After that it was a bit of a rollercoaster, with Makhija doubling-up a few times, but without regaining the lead. It took some more hands and a bit over three hours for the final hand of the tournament. Phan's pocket threes survived the board and held against Makhija's K7dd. That was the hand that made John Phan a WPT champion and gave him the first-prize worth <b>$1,091,428</b>, setting his live tournament winnings to over 5 million dollars! Amit Makhija takes home <b>$563,320</b> for the 2nd place.

Final-table results:


    1.John Phan -- $1,091,428
    2.Amit Makhija -- $563,320
    3.Zachary Clark -- $281,645
    4.Paul Smith -- $246,450
    5.Trong Nguyen -- $211,245
    6.Kyle Wilson -- $176,035

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[vital]Myth    United States. Aug 29 2008 23:26. Posts 12159

how? why? god, john phan is SO bad jesus christ

go amit though!!! <3 amit

Eh, I can go a few more orbits in life, before taxes blind me out - PoorUser 

FrinkX   United States. Aug 30 2008 00:14. Posts 7562

why wasnt i listed as an online superstar who played in this event

bitch on a pension suck my dong 

FrinkX   United States. Aug 30 2008 00:14. Posts 7562

amak shoulda shipped this tho fk john pham and his faggotry

bitch on a pension suck my dong 

Smuft   Canada. Aug 30 2008 04:07. Posts 633

They failed to note that Phan recently final tabled Bellagio Cup IV as well. The guy is having the sickest year that I've ever seen in tournaments.

- Khan

 Last edit: 30/08/2008 04:08

Twisted    Netherlands. Aug 30 2008 04:53. Posts 10422

He's really wearing his bracelets in tournaments? :[


Raidern   Brasil. Aug 30 2008 08:07. Posts 4248

no that pic was from the wsop

im a regular at nl5 

Ket    United Kingdom. Aug 30 2008 11:32. Posts 8665

john pham and scotty nguyen. 2008 year of the douchebags


casinocasino   Canada. Aug 30 2008 23:29. Posts 3347

pretty impressive results


 



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