2005 WSOP Event #35

July 5, 2005

Pot-Limit Omaha
Buy-in: $10,000
Number of Entries: 165
Total Prize Money: $1,551,000

Final Table Results:

1st – Rafi Amit
2nd – Vinny Vinh
3rd – Jeffrie Rine
4th – Derek Baxter
5th – Simon ‘Aces’ Trumper
6th – Todd Brunson
7th – Ferit Gabriellson
8th – Erik Seidel
9th – Istvan Novak

Memorable hand:
With Amit and Vinh sporting almost identical chip stacks, Amit won a key heads-up hand that gave him a commanding lead that he would never relinquish. Vinh held A-10-8-5 and liked his hand enough to call an all-in bet when the 9-8-8 flop gave him trip eights. But Amit pushed all in for a reason. He was holding J-9-9-4 for a full ho8use. The turn card was a five and the river a two, both blanks, allowing eventual winner Amit to scoop the massive pot.

Other noteworthy finishers were: Julian Gardner in 10th place and Max Pescatori in 13th place.

Running numbers:
10: Minites Amit sat out during heads-up play for a profanity penalty
210,000: Chips Vinh picked up by collecting blinds during 10 minutes
11: Europeans among the 18 money finishers