Last night, Allen Cunningham made history. In winning event thirteen, Cunningham became the first player to win events at three consecutive World Series’ of Poker since Erik Seidel’s run from 1992-’94. He also becomes the third youngest player to five bracelets (Ivey, Hellmuth) and joins Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan and Chris Ferguson as the players with five bracelet wins in the 2000’s. Before we get to his final hand against Jeffrey Lisandro, a look at the other goings on of the day;
- Cunningham called this the toughest final table amongst his five wins. Lisandro was runner up, while Humberto Brenes finished third and defending champion Jason Lester fourth. 2004 champion Gavin Griffin was seventh. - Michael Keiner needed to last eighteen hours to take the title in event 14. The heads-up portion of the day began at 4:45 AM - In event 15, Phil Hellmuth may be making history. He’s amongst the biggest stacks heading into today’s final table. Rick Fuller is the only player leading Hellmuth, while Scott Clements comes in with the third stack. - Event 16, the $2,500 HORSE was supposed to work its way down to a final table, but instead they ended play with twenty survivors, who will play down to one Monday. The leader is Harry Kazazian, with Ali Eslami, Chris Bjorin, 2007 bracelet winner Tom Schneider and John Gale amongst the leaders. - Mary Jones is amongst the chip leaders going into day two of Event 18, $1,000 hold’em for ladies only. - Doyle Brunson is amongst the leaders of event 18, the $5,000 limit hold’em event.
On the 181st hand of the night, Lisandro, down to T700K, raised to T165,000. Cunningham made it T495,000 to go, then called when the Aussie moved all-in. Lisandro had Qh-Qs to Cunningham’s Kc-9d, but Allen found a king on the turn when the board came As-8h-3s Kh 7d. Cunningham was the champion.
