 Brian Rast has won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship. In the final heads-up he defeated his countryman Mike Wattel and won his 4th WSOP bracelet.
The event will also be remembered for a different reason. That is probably the last one ever played by Doyle Brunson.
Legendary poker player had a chance to win his 11th trophy at World Series. He hasn't managed that, but still ended hs career n style – took 6th place in the event. If you want to read why Brunson quit playing – click here.
Altogether there were 95 registration and 11 players got to the final day. All community was observing the Brunsons as theoretically father and son could have met in the final HU. Unfortunatelt Todd Brunson was eliminated in the 10th.
8 players started playing at the final table. Two of them had a big lead: Brian Rast and Mike Wattel. As it turned out they met in the final duel.
Doyle Brunson had 6th biggest stack and he even managed to double up thanks to Brian Rast. The audience were enthusiastic about it and after a few other pots “Texas Dolly” got to the third place.
In the 8th Farzad Bonyadi (98524) said goodbye to the table, after a hand lost to James Alexander (87436). 40 minutes later John Hennigan (T862 + Q) hit the rail – his opponent was Brian Rast (T9842).
And so in the 6th we said bye bye to Doyle Brunson. Godfather of poker is and always will be a legend. Let's hope he stays healthy and maybe we will see his comeback one day.
Next to go was Shawn Sheikhan. Then James Alexander (632 +6A), and his opponent in the fnal hand was again Brian Rast (T8642).
After Alexander's elimiination Rast strengthened his lead and Sammartino was having a hard time to keep up. Finally Rast eliminated the Italian.
Heads-up phase began from a huge lead of Rast overr Wattel. The chip leader had 4 million and his rival only 750 thousand. Opponent managed to double up and the lead decreased to just 2:1. It went on for a while and then the hand happened:
With blinds 40K/80K Rast opened to 170K, and his opponent went all-in for 1.27 million. Chip leader thought for 90 seconds and finally called. No cards were drawn. Wattel had T7642, and Brian 98762. For the second place Wattel cashed $160,489.
The winner of $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship event is Brian Rast, who thus got his fourth WSOP bracelet and $259,670.
Place Full name Prize
1 Brian Rast $259,670
2 Mike Wattel $160,489
3 Dario Sammartino $114,023
4 James Alexander $81,986
5 Shawn Sheikhan $59,669
6 Doyle Brunson $43,963
7 John Hennigan $32,796
8 Farzad Bonyadi $24,775
9 Ray Dehkharghani $18,955
10 Todd Brunson $18,955
11 Galen Hall $18,955
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Brian Rast has won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship. In the final heads-up he defeated his countryman Mike Wattel and won his 4th WSOP bracelet.
