Ian O'Hara and Kunal Patel came to an agreement to cut the prize pool heads up after outlasting 329 other players Monday night on the Coco Poker Open $2,500 Championship in Florida. Per the terms in their independent chip model (ICM) deal, O'Hara got $212,830 and a $5,250 seat into the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, while Patel banked $206,170. WPT - LA Poker Classic No Limit Hold'Em - WPT LA Poker Classic Main Event: $10,000: 39: $26,660: Jan 26-Jan 31, 2014 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship: $3,300 + $200: 7: 1229: $135,172: Jan 26, 2014 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship Day 1A: $3,300 + $200: 7.
Ian O'Hara and Kunal Patel came to an agreement to cut the prize pool heads up after outlasting 329 other players Monday night on the Coco Poker Open $2,500 Championship in Florida. Per the terms in their independent chip model (ICM) deal, O'Hara got $212,830 and a $5,250 seat into the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, while Patel banked $206,170.
The tournament featured a $1 million guarantee and there has been a large overlay of greater than $250,000 within the prize pool.
Official Final Table Results
| 1 | Ian O'Hara | $218,080 |
| 2 | Kunal Patel | $206,170 |
| 3 | Glenn Becker | $100,500 |
| 4 | Marsha Wolak | $70,000 |
| 5 | Chad Bradbury | $50,500 |
| 6 | Sean Shah | $40,500 |
| 7 | Matthew Smith | $31,000 |
| 8 | Nash Tran | $22,000 |
| 9 | Ivan Starostin | $16,000 |
| 10 | Jason Dollinger | $12,000 |
A choice of heavy hitters were some of the 45 players to receive payouts, including Jonathan Jaffe, Spencer Champlin, Hans Winzeler, Ryan Van Sanford and John Dolan.
According to the live updates, the general table began with O'Hara playing second fiddle to simply Glenn Becker. But, after Jason Dollinger went out 10th, O'Hara busted Ivan Starostin with against pocket kings, flopping trip nines to bust the short-stacked player.
Patel, meanwhile, was left with crumbs after losing most of his stack with kings against nines, but he pulled off an unlikely win with against Becker's queens, hitting a flush to come back to a good stack.
Becker did finish off two very short-stacked players, first sending Nash Tran packing with king-ten against king-eight. Then, he picked up kings against the ace-ten of Matthew Smith, who had just had his aces cracked by the sevens of Sean Shah all in preflop when a seven peeled off at the river.
That left six players, with O'Hara well away from the pack at 68 big blinds, while nobody else was north of 25. O'Hara handed out a few doubles before getting back on target by winning with ace-jack against the sevens of Shah to bust him sixth. His next victim was Chad Bradbury, who shoved over a lead from O'Hara on a flop. O'Hara had and won unimproved.
Former World Series of Poker Ladies Event champ Marsha Wolak chugged at the side of a brief stack for awhile but saw her run lead to fourth, with O'Hara taking her previous couple of big blinds with against .
Finally, O'Hara took a break from busting people and it was a pot between Patel and Becker that ended the tournament. With blinds at 40,000/80,000/10,000, the 2 played a large pot with Patel check-calling 300,000 on a board of . Patel check-called an all-in bet at the river, and Becker showed . Patel had a greater flush with ; he stacked nearly enough chips to check O'Hara.
At that point, when the clock neared 2 a.m. local time, the players came to their agreement and the tournament was ended.
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