Stammdogg Wins 2009 WSOP Event 13

Keven Stammen, known also as Stammdogg, scored his first WSOP bracelet last night as he took down 2009 WSOP Event #13 – $2,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em. Stammen, is a highly rated online poker pro. His win last night was his seventh WSOP cash, however at $506,786 it was considerably larger than his previous best result which was for $15,584 for a 15th place finish in a limit six max event last year. With this victory he’s now increased his career winnings to over $1.6 million which has him ranked in this years top 100 in both live and online poker.

Here’s how the days action unfolded:

2009 WSOP Event 13 Day 3 Report

20 players of the events original 1,088 returned for Day three to play down till there was one player left. On the line: a WSOP-bracelet and $506,786 first place prize money. However, the day’s first agenda was to get down to an official final table of nine.

The shortest stack heading into the day was poker sensation Phil Ivey, however when the cards were in the air he was nowhere in site. Lucky for him, two players (Jochen Dickinger and Alan Keating) made early exits and Ivey jumped a bit in the payout tiers without even being there.

With the tournament now down to eighteen players there was a redraw for seats. Around this same time Ivey showed up, he wouldn’t be there for long though as he managed to double up only once before being eliminated holding QsTs to Romeo Piro’s As Js.

Angel Guillen became the first player to reach a million chip stack as his pocket Aces won a large pot that send Kirill Gerasimov (who held pocket tens) to the rail in 17th place. He was followed to the rail by Philip Sousa whose A-4 was no good against Garrett Beckman’s pocket sixes.

Keven Stammen was the second player to reach the one million chip mark when his Aces bested Roland de Wolfe’s pocket kings. This hand sent de Wolfe to the rail in 15th to collect $25,824.

Eventually the field narrowed as Brett Switzer exited in 14th place, followed by Qinghai Pan in 13th, each receiving $25,824. Then Jeff Tunkel was the next player out finishing in 12th place, worth $35,384. When Romeo Piro was knocked out in 11th place ($35,584) we were down to a single table, however needed on more elimination for the actual WSOP (as far as stats are concerned) final table to be determined.

The hand that determined the final tables bubble boy saw Garrett Beckman take Ac kd against Shawn Glines’ 10d 10s. No Ace, King nor a straight or flush came for Beckman and he was out in tenth place ($35,584) and the final table had now been set.

As final table play started here were the seat assignments and chip counts:

Seat 1 — Oktay Altinbas (480,000)
Seat 2 — Shawn Glines (1,092,000)
Seat 3 — Antoine Berube (477,000)
Seat 4 — Keven Stammen (1,400,000)
Seat 5 — Gregg Merkow (495,000)
Seat 6 — Bahador Ahmadi (1,786,000)
Seat 7 — Matthew Lynn (348,000)
Seat 8 — Torrey Reily (380,000)
Seat 9 — Angel Guillen (1,500,000)

The days staring chip leader Gregg Merkow ended up being the first final table player eliminated when he went all in with pocket sevens on a 5-high flop, and was called by Stammen who held pocket tens. Merkow received $41,439 for his ninth place finish and Stamen now had over 2 million chips.

Stamen did not keep the chip lead for long as Bahador Ahmadi regained the chip lead when his Kh Jh outflopped Matthew Lynn’s Ad 10d which sent Lynn out in eighth place worth $48,621.

The pace of this final table was fast, and by hand 34 play was five handed as Oktay Altinbas finished seventh ($59,356) and Antoine Berube finished sixth ($75,547).

There was a huge hand in which Keven Stammen reclaimed the chip lead when his 9d 5d flopped two pair against Bahador Ahmadi. Ahmadi later claimed to have had pocket tens on this hand, but had mucked the hand without showing. When this hand was complete Stammen had over 3.7 million in chips, while Ahmadi fell to 670 thousand.

After dinner break with blinds 20K/40K, Torrey Reily had just 495K chips left. Having moved up on the pay scale playing very few hands, he finally decided to make his stand with QsJd and was dominated by Bahador Ahmadi’s As Js, the board ended up spades as Ahmadi made a flush which sent Torrey Reily out in fifth place to collect $100,446.

Angel Guillen had just lost a big pot and was down to just 300K when Keven Stammen delivered the knock out blow. On this hand Stammen’s Kc Jh out raced Ahmadi’s black pocket fives as he headed to the rail to collect $139,934.

Three hands later we were heads up after Keven Stammen’s pocket kings held up against Shawn Glines’ A-K. Glines collected $202,694 for his third-place finish.

After just 70 hands of final table play Keven Stammen and Angel Guillen were left to play it out for a bracelet, with Stammen holding over a 2-to-1 chip lead. Early on Stammen grew his lead to 4-to-1, however Guillen would fight back and be down by only 2 million chips when the final hand played out. On this hand Stammen raised to 150K from the button, Guillen called and the flop came 9s 8h 2h, both players apparently liked the flop as a series of raises followed that ended with an all in. Guillen showed Jh 9h for top pair and a flush draw, while Stammen showed Jc Js for an overpair. The turn and river came Ts 2c bringing Angel Guillen no help as he was eliminated as the runner up receiving $312,800, while Keven Stammen collected $506,786 and his first WSOP gold bracelet.