Nur eine Entscheidung fiel in der vergangenen Nacht bei der WSOP in Las Vegas. An Event 44, einem Massenturnier in Texas No-Limit Hold’em hatten sich ursprünglich 2.949 Spieler beteiligt und ins Finale zogen davon 16 ein.
Unter diesen befand sich auch die Deutsche Anke Berner, die damit das gute Abschneiden der Damen bei dieser WSOP bestätigte und gleichzeitig ein weiteres Spitzenresultat für die deutschen Pokerspieler errang.
Berner schaffte sogar den Sprung an den Finaltisch, dort musste sie sich als anfänglicher Short Stack allerdings auf Platz 7 verabschieden. Sie brachte ihre letzten 384.000 Chips mit K Q im Pot unter, doch direkt hinter ihr callte Neil Mittelman im Cut-Off. Das verhieß nichts Gutes, und tatsächlich servierte der Amerikaner mit A K eine dominierende Hand.
Das Board half Berner nicht weiter, und sie musste das Aus hinnehmen. Für ihren ausgezeichneten siebten Platz erhielt sie knapp 60.000 Dollar.
Unter den letzten sechs Spielern befanden sich somit fünf US-Amerikaner und der Italiener Rocco Palumbo, dem es prompt gelang, alle Konkurrenten aus dem Feld zu schlagen. Das Heads-Up mit Nelson Robinson begann mit fast identischen Stacks, doch Palumbo schaffte es rasch, seinem Gegner davon zu ziehen.
Zweimal verdoppelte Robinson noch in existentieller Lage, doch am Ende half alles nichts. Mit K 6 ging Robinson per 4-Bet All-In, Palumbo callte mit A 9 und das Board brachte bis zum Turn mit 4 A J 4 schon die Vorentscheidung.
Der K auf dem River spielte da keine Rolle mehr und mit Rocco Palumbo stand der Sieger und Gewinner von 464.464 Dollar fest. Für Rang 2 erhielt Robinson knapp 290.000 Dollar.
Hier der Endstand von Event 44:
| 1 | Rocco Palumbo | 464,464 |
| 2 | Nelson Robinson | 288,448 |
| 3 | Thomas Conway | 203,437 |
| 4 | Niel Mittelman | 146,931 |
| 5 | Jason Everett | 107,411 |
| 6 | Kevin Elia | 79,646 |
| 7 | Anke Berner | 59,478 |
| 8 | Patrick Karschamroon | 45,040 |
| 9 | David Forster | 34,503 |
| 10 | Darren Rabinowitz | 26,727 |
| 11 | Francisco Azares | 26,727 |
| 12 | Travell Thomas | 26,727 |
| 13 | Jaspal Brar | 20,941 |
| 14 | Paul Sokoloff | 20,941 |
| 15 | Mario Delis | 20,941 |
| 16 | Keven Stammen | 16,588 |
| 17 | Miltiadis Kyriakides | 16,588 |
| 18 | Jeremy Halaska | 16,588 |
| 19 | Michael Bena | 13,297 |
| 20 | David Copeland | 13,297 |
| 21 | Jacob Schindler | 13,297 |
| 22 | Klein Bach | 13,297 |
| 23 | William Daymon | 13,297 |
| 24 | Blair Hinkle | 13,297 |
| 25 | Mazin Khoury | 13,297 |
| 26 | Adam Latimer | 13,297 |
| 27 | James Farrington | 13,297 |
| 28 | Adam Heger | 10,776 |
| 29 | Tarek Riester | 10,776 |
| 30 | Mickey Petersen | 10,776 |
| 31 | Inge Forsmo | 10,776 |
| 32 | Michael Reed | 10,776 |
| 33 | Balazs Somodi | 10,776 |
| 34 | Timothy Roupp | 10,776 |
| 35 | Trenton Bledsoe | 10,776 |
| 36 | Sheldon Summers | 10,776 |
| 37 | Alex Rivera | 8,812 |
| 38 | Christopher Moutzouris | 8,812 |
| 39 | Todd Keikoan | 8,812 |
| 40 | Julian Parmann | 8,812 |
| 41 | Fatih Dayik | 8,812 |
| 42 | Kathy Saraf | 8,812 |
| 43 | Nghia Nguyen | 8,812 |
| 44 | Alexey Popov | 8,812 |
| 45 | Ryan Hartmann | 8,812 |
| 46 | Joseph Vollero | 7,299 |
| 47 | Hans Hein | 7,299 |
| 48 | Jeremiah Mckenna | 7,299 |
| 49 | Charles Botos | 7,299 |
| 50 | David Carlson | 7,299 |
| 51 | Blake Cahail | 7,299 |
| 52 | Tolga Ural | 7,299 |
| 53 | Dexter Evans | 7,299 |
| 54 | Trevor Pearlman | 7,299 |
| 55 | Shawn Van Asdale | 6,104 |
| 56 | James Wall | 6,104 |
| 57 | Richard Ocovino | 6,104 |
| 58 | Michael Wolf | 6,104 |
| 59 | David Cairns | 6,104 |
| 60 | Thomas Biague | 6,104 |
| 61 | Simon Welds | 6,104 |
| 62 | Amnon Filippi | 6,104 |
| 63 | Jose Nadal | 6,104 |
| 64 | Kevin Iacofano | 5,149 |
| 65 | Maya Antonius | 5,149 |
| 66 | Alex Dovzhenko | 5,149 |
| 67 | Ruslan Gazaev | 5,149 |
| 68 | Jarred Solomon | 5,149 |
| 69 | Joseph Fulford | 5,149 |
| 70 | Steven Meyers | 5,149 |
| 71 | Paul Leckey | 5,149 |
| 72 | Mikhail Voloshen | 5,149 |
| 73 | Joe Tehan | 4,406 |
| 74 | Gonzalo Ramirez | 4,406 |
| 75 | Jeremy Ausmus | 4,406 |
| 76 | Ivan Demidov | 4,406 |
| 77 | Jan Bendik | 4,406 |
| 78 | Jude Ainsworth | 4,406 |
| 79 | Jason Cohen | 4,406 |
| 80 | Danny Estes | 4,406 |
| 81 | Tucker Hummel | 4,406 |
| 82 | Christopher Conrad | 3,795 |
| 83 | Braden Pan | 3,795 |
| 84 | Mikhail Lakhitov | 3,795 |
| 85 | Edward Yoo | 3,795 |
| 86 | Eric Anderson | 3,795 |
| 87 | Jefferson James | 3,795 |
| 88 | Soi Nguyen | 3,795 |
| 89 | Christian Sanchez | 3,795 |
| 90 | Vinny Pahuja | 3,795 |
| 91 | Scott Zakheim | 3,318 |
| 92 | Shane Weber | 3,318 |
| 93 | Jeffrey Schnettler | 3,318 |
| 94 | Keanu Tabali | 3,318 |
| 95 | Hemanth Kumar | 3,318 |
| 96 | Jordan Lewis | 3,318 |
| 97 | Tony Dam | 3,318 |
| 98 | Levi Wilson | 3,318 |
| 99 | Hugo Perez | 3,318 |
| 100 | Wenlong Jin | 2,920 |
| 101 | Ibrahim Ban | 2,920 |
| 102 | Dara Davey | 2,920 |
| 103 | Daryl Katz | 2,920 |
| 104 | Jonathan Little | 2,920 |
| 105 | Kenneth Shei | 2,920 |
| 106 | Andrew Gordon | 2,920 |
| 107 | Donald Matusow | 2,920 |
| 108 | Mark Herm | 2,920 |
| 109 | Tim Miles | 2,920 |
| 110 | John Lane | 2,920 |
| 111 | Martin Jacobson | 2,920 |
| 112 | Joe Cada | 2,920 |
| 113 | Fernando Furlaneti | 2,920 |
| 114 | Feizal Satchu | 2,920 |
| 115 | Douglas Stavolone | 2,920 |
| 116 | Daniel Attie | 2,920 |
| 117 | Denys Drobyna | 2,920 |
| 118 | Dennis Firestone | 2,920 |
| 119 | Lars Seltner | 2,920 |
| 120 | Robert Wiercinski | 2,920 |
| 121 | Joshua Weiss | 2,920 |
| 122 | David Charalambous | 2,920 |
| 123 | Kevin Olsta | 2,920 |
| 124 | Larry Kirk | 2,920 |
| 125 | Sean Biotti | 2,920 |
| 126 | Peter Sajevics | 2,920 |
| 127 | Eric Drake | 2,920 |
| 128 | Cody Zartman | 2,920 |
| 129 | William Greenberg | 2,920 |
| 130 | John Dunning | 2,920 |
| 131 | Ubaid Habib | 2,920 |
| 132 | Mark Houghton | 2,920 |
| 133 | Alexander Moser | 2,920 |
| 134 | Stewart Yancik | 2,920 |
| 135 | Paul Janssen | 2,920 |
| 136 | Carsten Luxig | 2,601 |
| 137 | William Higgins | 2,601 |
| 138 | Mark Shaffery | 2,601 |
| 139 | Roger Levin | 2,601 |
| 140 | Sheldon Mayer | 2,601 |
| 141 | Richard Harroch | 2,601 |
| 142 | William Vogel | 2,601 |
| 143 | Ola Klevard | 2,601 |
| 144 | Jeremy Dann | 2,601 |
| 145 | Collin Moshman | 2,601 |
| 146 | Christopher Bibb | 2,601 |
| 147 | Stanislaw Kretz | 2,601 |
| 148 | Matt Iles | 2,601 |
| 149 | Anthony Gargano | 2,601 |
| 150 | Weldon Thompson | 2,601 |
| 151 | Michael Cordell | 2,601 |
| 152 | Ken Evanowski | 2,601 |
| 153 | Paul Berende | 2,601 |
| 154 | Byron Kaverman | 2,601 |
| 155 | John Ellis | 2,601 |
| 156 | Joseph Gray | 2,601 |
| 157 | Eric Wilkinson | 2,601 |
| 158 | David Cai | 2,601 |
| 159 | Jenerik Aule | 2,601 |
| 160 | Kevin Rabichow | 2,601 |
| 161 | Zachary Dowhower | 2,601 |
| 162 | Arthur Jones | 2,601 |
| 163 | Dianne Hull | 2,601 |
| 164 | Getty Mattingsley | 2,601 |
| 165 | Marc Gruttner | 2,601 |
| 166 | Matthew Ireland | 2,601 |
| 167 | Robert Lum | 2,601 |
| 168 | Julian Galvan | 2,601 |
| 169 | Justin Young | 2,601 |
| 170 | Ryan Gentry | 2,601 |
| 171 | Steve Karp | 2,601 |
| 172 | Clayton Mozdzen | 2,336 |
| 173 | Steven Brown | 2,336 |
| 174 | Justin Zaki | 2,336 |
| 175 | Jean Luc Voyer | 2,336 |
| 176 | Konstantin Maslak | 2,336 |
| 177 | Wlodzimierz Panasiuk | 2,336 |
| 178 | Jamey Cates | 2,336 |
| 179 | James Callahan | 2,336 |
| 180 | Jason Ng | 2,336 |
| 181 | Steven Kelly | 2,336 |
| 182 | Todd Akiyama | 2,336 |
| 183 | Steven Gibbs | 2,336 |
| 184 | Yashar Darian | 2,336 |
| 185 | Aviv Azoulay | 2,336 |
| 186 | Anthony Petreccia | 2,336 |
| 187 | Allen Kim | 2,336 |
| 188 | Sascha Stopa-Chavez | 2,336 |
| 189 | Philip Cook | 2,336 |
| 190 | Sebastien Roy | 2,336 |
| 191 | John Gravagna | 2,336 |
| 192 | Edgar Henry | 2,336 |
| 193 | Dariush Imani | 2,336 |
| 194 | Benjamin Alcober | 2,336 |
| 195 | Richard Lapwood | 2,336 |
| 196 | Matt Wilkins | 2,336 |
| 197 | Mike Arzoumanidis | 2,336 |
| 198 | Michael Cantrell | 2,336 |
| 199 | Matt Keikoan | 2,336 |
| 200 | John Patgorski | 2,336 |
| 201 | Luca Moschitta | 2,336 |
| 202 | John Hartmann | 2,336 |
| 203 | Pablo Gonzalez | 2,336 |
| 204 | Steven Fiorentini | 2,336 |
| 205 | Stephen Plache | 2,336 |
| 206 | Angel Garcia | 2,336 |
| 207 | Jeffrey Taylor | 2,336 |
| 208 | Aleksandr Mozhnyakov | 2,123 |
| 209 | Sarah Beard | 2,123 |
| 210 | Craig Sweden | 2,123 |
| 211 | Andrew Touchette | 2,123 |
| 212 | Reynolds Buchanan | 2,123 |
| 213 | Brian Lewis | 2,123 |
| 214 | Konstantin Puchkov | 2,123 |
| 215 | Oscar Miranda | 2,123 |
| 216 | Valerio Greco | 2,123 |
| 217 | Jeffrey Frye | 2,123 |
| 218 | Joe Gualtieri | 2,123 |
| 219 | Scott Sitron | 2,123 |
| 220 | Richard Clark | 2,123 |
| 221 | Clifton Allen | 2,123 |
| 222 | Matthew Berto | 2,123 |
| 223 | Andrew Robinson | 2,123 |
| 224 | Kelli Griggs | 2,123 |
| 225 | Eric Wulff | 2,123 |
| 226 | Justin Kerrihard | 2,123 |
| 227 | Lee Taylor | 2,123 |
| 228 | Paul Welcome | 2,123 |
| 229 | Joseph Labiosa | 2,123 |
| 230 | Phillip Weast | 2,123 |
| 231 | Mukul Pahuja | 2,123 |
| 232 | Radoslaw Jedynak | 2,123 |
| 233 | Thorsten Schuler | 2,123 |
| 234 | Matthew Henson | 2,123 |
| 235 | Charlie Canlas | 2,123 |
| 236 | Derek Bickerstaff | 2,123 |
| 237 | Jason Deutsch | 2,123 |
| 238 | Andrew Weisner | 2,123 |
| 239 | Darin Minkel | 2,123 |
| 240 | David Emmons | 2,123 |
| 241 | Joshua Tieman | 2,123 |
| 242 | Trenton Flanigan Jones | 2,123 |
| 243 | Sheldon Phelps | 2,123 |
| 244 | Donald Rogers | 2,123 |
| 245 | Matthew Bannantine | 2,123 |
| 246 | Gionni Demers | 2,123 |
| 247 | Barry Hutter | 2,123 |
| 248 | Robert Scott Pendergrast | 2,123 |
| 249 | Nathan Weed | 2,123 |
| 250 | Steve Cha | 2,123 |
| 251 | Mehdi Gernone | 2,123 |
| 252 | Sean Rice | 2,123 |
| 253 | Salvatore Dicarlo | 1,937 |
| 254 | Alexander Bateman | 1,937 |
| 255 | Jean Gaspard | 1,937 |
| 256 | Charles Thompson | 1,937 |
| 257 | Antone Cook | 1,937 |
| 258 | Paul Chaney | 1,937 |
| 259 | Bela Toth | 1,937 |
| 260 | Pascal LeFrancois | 1,937 |
| 261 | Erik Seidel | 1,937 |
| 262 | Trevor Bodenham | 1,937 |
| 263 | Martin Finger | 1,937 |
| 264 | James Tarby | 1,937 |
| 265 | Ronald May | 1,937 |
| 266 | John Pratt | 1,937 |
| 267 | David Tran | 1,937 |
| 268 | Raymond Garcia | 1,937 |
| 269 | Adam Kornuth | 1,937 |
| 270 | Dmitriy Shilnikov | 1,937 |
| 271 | Victor Ramdin | 1,937 |
| 272 | Jonathan Bennett | 1,937 |
| 273 | Matthias Kurtz | 1,937 |
| 274 | Anton Kozlovskiy | 1,937 |
| 275 | Raigo Aasmaa | 1,937 |
| 276 | David Meland | 1,937 |
| 277 | Attila Kovesi | 1,937 |
| 278 | Jonathan Hales | 1,937 |
| 279 | Sonny Lee | 1,937 |
| 280 | Patrick Cahill | 1,937 |
| 281 | Mohannad Elrifai | 1,937 |
| 282 | Edward Brogdon | 1,937 |
| 283 | Kevin Gabbay | 1,937 |
| 284 | Jose Cazares | 1,937 |
| 285 | Joshua Norris | 1,937 |
| 286 | Karen Longfellow | 1,937 |
| 287 | Chad Weinman | 1,937 |
| 288 | Russell Calverley | 1,937 |
| 289 | Kevin Eyster | 1,937 |
| 290 | John Mcdonald | 1,937 |
| 291 | Charles Hall | 1,937 |
| 292 | David Stephen | 1,937 |
| 293 | Dustin Fox | 1,937 |
| 294 | Richard Tatalovich | 1,937 |
| 295 | Connor Cronkhite | 1,937 |
| 296 | Stuart Pfeifer | 1,937 |
| 297 | Jason Mayfield | 1,937 |
Dieser Artikel erschien auf PokerOlymp am 27.06.2012.
