And the champion is ...
The World Poker Tour Championship is finally over, and the boys in WPT's editing room are going to have their hands full. I seriously do not know how WPT can capture the spirit of this one unless they make it a two-parter. Most folks know this, but there are still a few people out there who are surprised to learn that the weekly WPT episodes don't show every hand. If they did, it would require much more time to show the final six than the two hours they have on the Travel Channel each week. In the case of this one, it would take much, much longer, since it didn't get over with until more than 11 and a half hours had passed. Your normal WPT episode shows somewhere around 25 hands; this one had 193.
Here's how the final table looked at the start of the day:
How it ended was nothing short of incredible. I will warn anyone who wants to preserve the suspense until this episode airs to not read any further, because I am about to spoil it all.
First, I was thrilled to see Phil Ivey and Tuan Le at a final table together, figuring that would make for a lot of fireworks. Unfortunately, that didn't quite come to pass, since Ivey was the first one out. Considering how many hands they will have to sort through, I doubt he will have much screen time in the final edit.
Habib continued tearing through the field and at several points had around $14 million. Despite that, it still wasn't his night. He ended up going out in third, leaving Le and Maxfield to battle it out.
Le showed resiliency as has probably never before been seen on the WPT. He was down to around $100,000, yet still managed to fight and claw and bluff his way back to win the whole kit and kaboodle.
If you want more details, Mike Paulle put together a WPT Championship Blog that gave live updates throughout the day and is where I got all of my information.
Here's how the final table looked at the start of the day:
Hasan Habib, Downey, CA, 7,795,000
Rob Hollink, Groningen, Netherlands, 4,430,000
Phil Ivey, Las Vegas, NV, 3,365,000
Paul Maxfield, Stoke-On-Trent, England, 2,885,000
Tuan Le, Los Angeles, CA, 2,680,000
John Phan, Long Beach, CA, 1,405,000
How it ended was nothing short of incredible. I will warn anyone who wants to preserve the suspense until this episode airs to not read any further, because I am about to spoil it all.
First, I was thrilled to see Phil Ivey and Tuan Le at a final table together, figuring that would make for a lot of fireworks. Unfortunately, that didn't quite come to pass, since Ivey was the first one out. Considering how many hands they will have to sort through, I doubt he will have much screen time in the final edit.
Habib continued tearing through the field and at several points had around $14 million. Despite that, it still wasn't his night. He ended up going out in third, leaving Le and Maxfield to battle it out.
Le showed resiliency as has probably never before been seen on the WPT. He was down to around $100,000, yet still managed to fight and claw and bluff his way back to win the whole kit and kaboodle.
If you want more details, Mike Paulle put together a WPT Championship Blog that gave live updates throughout the day and is where I got all of my information.
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