The World Poker Tour World Poker Finals at Foxwoods concluded on Tuesday after an eight-hour, 200-hand final table. At the end of the night, Daniel Santoro took down Christian Harder heads-up to claim the $449,910 first-place prize.
Coming into the official WPT final table, Steven Brackesy held the chip lead. The shortest stack was former WPT champion and Player of the Year Andy Frankenberger. Falling in sixth place, though, was the second shortest stack entering the day, Eli Berg, who was eliminated on the third hand of the day.
According to the WPT Live Update Team, Berg raised under the gun to 36,000 with the blinds at 8,000/16,000/2,000. Harder made the call from the button and Frankenberger called from the big blind. The flop came down
The turn brought the
Frankenberger fell in fifth place on the 13th hand of the final table and took home $99,585. Start-of-the-day chip leader Brackesy raised from under the gun to 37,000. Santoro called from the cutoff seat, Harder three-bet to 127,000 from the button, and then Frankenberger reraised all-in from the big blind. After Brackesy and Santoro folded, Harder snap-called with
Ten hands later at the same level, Brackesy hit the rail in fourth place, eliminated by Santoro. Brackesy was all-in preflop with
Brackesy made it 43,000 to go from the small blind, Santoro reraised to 110,000 out of the big blind, Brackesy four-bet to 243,000, and Santoro five-bet to 440,000. Brackesy moved all-in, and Santoro called holding
Falling in third place, Bob Carbone took home $166,271. The blinds were up to 15,000/30,000/5,000 and Santoro min-raised to 60,000 from the button. Carbone moved all-in from the big blind but got snap-called by Santoro who held
With the tournament now down to two players, Santoro was pitted against Harder for the title. Santoro held the chip lead going into heads-up play with 4.49 million in chips to Harder’s 1.23 million.
Around 28 hands into the match, Harder lost a big pot to Santoro and was knocked down to just nine big blinds. He was able to double up on the very next hand but still only had 780,000 in chips to Santoro’s 4.94 million. After getting ground down a bit more over the next couple of hands, Harder found another double to 1.21 million on hand No. 130.
Several hands later, Harder lost another big pot to Santoro and was back under one million. Much like before, he doubled on the very next hand and got back to 1.71 million in chips. Shortly after that, he won a big pot worth 1.8 million in chips to get nearly even with Santoro. On Hand No. 153, Harder took a slight lead for the first time in the match.
Although Harder made a very strong comeback from the short stack, Santoro stuck to his guns and ground Harder right back down. Then, on Hand No. 185, Harder doubled to take the lead of 3.99 million to 1.68 million. He didn’t hold onto the lead for too long, though. On hand No. 189, Santoro doubled back and took the lead again with 3.18 million to 2.49 million. The chips stayed right around the same before the final hand came up on hand No. 200.
The blinds were up to 40,000/80,000/10,000, and Harder min-raised from the button to 160,000. Santoro reraised to 425,000, and then Harder reraised all-in for right around 2.5 million. Santoro instantly called with
The flop was
Final Table Results
Place | Player | Prize |
---|---|---|
1 | Daniel Santoro | $449,910 |
2 | Christian Harder | $248,962 |
3 | Bob Carbone | $166,271 |
4 | Steven Brackesy | $129,816 |
5 | Andy Frankenberger | $99,585 |
6 | Eli Berg | $83,580 |
For his win, Santoro took home $449,910, which includes a $25,500 WPT Championship seat.
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