Joh wins sell out World Series of Poker Event 51 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em Event

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Published: July 19, 2009

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The World Series of Poker 2009 tournament schedule is very much alive, seeing over 50 tournaments completed and only a few left to play out.

The tournament has offered a number of surprises and milestones for a number of players, ranging from professionals crashing out of tournaments without placing to one player who has become the first player to take 3 World Series of Poker winners bracelets in one tournament schedule since 1973.

A tournament that offers such a vast amount of quality and ability could only offer spectators some of the best live poker available to date.

World Series of Poker Event 51 recently came to an end, crowning yet another player a champion, taking home one of the infamous WSOP winners bracelets and a very tidy prize pool.

The $1,500 Texas Hold’em No Limit event was the first tournament entry within this years tournament schedule for winner Carsten Joh and he certainly picked the tournament to win.

The tournament offered a full participation list, selling out completely leaving the player field been a long and star-studded track that the winner would have to walk.
The event started with a majority amateur crowd on day one but day two brought some well known names such as Men Nguyen and Tony Cousineau to the tables, intensifying the competition for any player who was carrying the dream of winning the tournament.

With some of the big names joining into the tournament on day two, you would have been forgiven for thinking that they were going to be gracing the final table on day three but the truth was that they took to the tables and began crashing out one by one, taking their plays to the spectator rails.

Day three brought the final table action but not until the final players who were looking to claim their final table seat completed to whittle down their starter tables.
The tournaments field was so large that it took until day three to offer the tournament its final 10 players who would fill the final table standings, taking until 8pm to get the final table underway.

Entering into the final table, Nathan Helder was carrying the chip leader status and was confident on taking his seat.

It was Nathan Page that was first to fall at the final table but he was soon followed by his name sake Nathan Helder after the former chip leader clashed with another large stack holder, losing the majority of his chips in one hand.

Georgios Kapalas, known for this victory in the Greek Pour Tour was the next player to hit the rails, finishing in 7th place.

The Greek’s exit seemed to open the floodgates with Thibaut Durand, two time European Poker Tour winner and Canadian Owen Crowe crashing out of the tournament in 6th place and 5th place respectively.

The tournament lost a further two players in fast succession with Steven Levy taking the 4th place and 21 year old David Walasinski finishing in a respectable 3rd place.
The heads up section of the tournament was now underway with Andrew Chan and Carsten Joh locking horns in the bid to become the champion of the $1,500 No Limit Texas Hold’em event.

Chan entered the heads up game carrying the chip lead and must have been feeling comfortable until he lost a couple of hands in quick succession to Joh, who managed to grind Chan down to take the over all victory.

The final section of the tournament took just over an hour to play out and Joh accepted his winner’s bracelet and $664,426 as a reward for his consistently good playing approach.

Guest article written by How To Play Stud

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