After 33 hands of heads up play against Rene Mouritsen, Max Greenwood eliminated Mouritsen and took home his first ever World Series of Poker bracelet along with a first place prize of $693,444. 879 players and 2,508 re-buys and add-ons help build a massive prize pool which exceeded $3.2 million!
Coming into the final table Greenwood was in the middle of the pack in chips, but everyone was chasing Jesse Chinni who had a dominate chip lead. Although, things did not go well for Chinni as an hour into the final table he lost the rest of his draining chips to Albert Iversen on hand 22. From middle position Rene Mouristen raises to 60,000 and Chinni re-raises to 180,000, Mouristsen pops him back to 300,000 and Chinni moves all in for 1,053,000 and Mouristen insta-calls. Mouristsen held pocket aces and Chinni held Ace king. Chinni was unable to pull out a massive suck out and Mouristen eliminates him in 5th place. Chinni must be kicking himself and wondering how he imploded.
Official chip stacks and players coming into the final table:
Jesse Chinni - 2,160,000
Rene Mouritsen - 1,007,000
Albert Iversen - 921,000
Max Greenwood - 728,000
Scott Freeman - 675,000
Phung Ngo - 556,000
Alex Bolotin - 308,000
Curtis Kohlberg - 209,000
Aliaksandr Dzianisau – 186,000
Fourth place went to Scott Freeman on the 67th hand of the final table after he moved all in from the big blind for 422,000 after Mouritsen raised from the button to 90,000. Mouritsen made the call and the players revealed their hands:
Mouritsen: Ah-Kh
Freeman: Ad-7d
The board ran 2c-6c-8d-10d-10c giving the pot to Mouritsen with Ace King high. Freeman took home $223,572 worth of prize money for his fourth place effort.
Heads up play began when Albert Iversen was eliminated in third place after he made a open raise to 80,000 from the button. From the big blind Mouritsen re-raised it making it 250,000 to go, Iversen calls. The flop fell 2s-5s-8s and Mouristen moved all in with As-3c after asking for a chip count of Iversen’s stack. Iversen insta calls showing 5-5 for middle set. The turn was a 10 of spades giving Mouristen a flush and now the river would need to pair the board for Iversen to stay alive. The river was a Queen, which missed the board and Iversen went home with $267,314 in his pocket.
Coming into heads up play Mouristen had a small chip lead against Greenwood, 3,750,000 to 3,025,000. Nearly all the pots were going Greenwood’s way; the last eight of ten hands were won by him. The final hand that crowned Greenwood came on final table hand #129 when Mouritsen raised from the button to 120,000 and Greenwood made the call. The flop came Js-4s-5s, Greenwood checks and Mouristen bets 175,000 and Greenwood raises to 500,000. Mouritsen announces, “I’m all in,” and Greenwood calls immediately. Mouritsen showed Kh-Jh and Greenwood held Ah-Jd. The turn and river were bricks and Mouristen was eliminated.
Final places and payouts:
1st: Max Greenwood - $693,444
2nd: Rene Mouritsen - $445,523
3rd: Albert Iversen - $267,314
4th: Scott Freeman - $223,572
5th: Jesse Chinni - $183,069
6th: Aliaksandr Dzianisau - $144,187
7th: Curits Kohlberg - $111,786
8th: Phung Ngo - $87,484
9th: Alex Bolotin - $63,183
One of the bigger stories of the night was Denmark’s Rene Mouritsen finishing yet again as the runner up. This make three second place WSOP finishes in less than a years time and he’s yet to win a WSOP bracelet – He’s certainly proven he can go deep in tournaments and its certainly just a matter of time before he scores himself a bracelet of his own. For tonight its all about Max Greenwood though.
Greenwood is a recent graduate of Toronto University who is mostly an online poker player. Having just graduated he’s not sure yet what he’ll do and whether or not he’ll persue poker as a career, but for now he plans on traveling Europe for a while and taking some time to rest and enjoy himself, which should be much easier to do with that $693,444 top place prize money he claimed last night.
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