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Legends of Poker / WPT Event Season 7

Event #9 - No Limit Hold'em

August 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Bicycle Casino
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	$500 + $45
Prize Pool	$140,650
Entries	290
Report Available

Shan Jing

Place	Name	Prize
1	Shan Jing (Arcadia, CA, USA)	$52,040
2	Ramzi Srour (Burbank, CA, USA)	$25,880
3	Debo Adejunmobi (Santa Monica, CA, USA)	$12,650
4	Glenn Cozen (Pasadena, CA, USA)	$8,440
5	Eric Hershler (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$6,330
6	Edward Hsu (Montebello, CA, USA)	$4,925
7	Adam Weinraub (Orange, CA, USA)	$3,515
8	Keith Rogers (Walnut, CA, USA)	$2,815
9	Lance Tahata (Downey, CA, USA)	$2,110
10	Ron Harri (La Jolla, CA, USA)	$1,760
11	Dung Le (Midway, CA, USA)	$1,760
12	Johnny Pham (Moreno Valley, CA, USA)	$1,760
13	James Lenaghan AKA "Ryan" (Mobile, AL, USA)	$1,405
14	Antonio Ferrer AKA "Tony" (Buena Park, CA, USA)	$1,405
15	Matthew Damadeo (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$1,405
16	Manuel Labandeira (Corona, CA, USA)	$1,195
17	Duoc Nguyen (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	$1,195
18	Nazir Habhab (Fontana, CA, USA)	$1,195
19	Alan Steinberg (Gardena, CA, USA)	$985
20	Jim Fugatti (San Pedro, CA, USA)	$985
21	Kevin McCormack (Chino, CA, USA)	$985
22	Rocky Enciso (Glendale, CA, USA)	$985
23	David Phelps (Lake Balboa, CA, USA)	$985
24	Elie Mrad (Covina, CA, USA)	$985
25	Ovenson Benoit (Las Vegas, NV, USA)	$985
26	Bill Williams (Riverside, CA, USA)	$985
27	Bryan Asch (Port Orange, FL, USA)	$985

Tournament Report

Shan Jing Works the Big Stack

With 290 players converging in The Ballroom at The Bike for event #9, a $500+$45 No Limit Hold'em event, the prize pool grew to $140,650. First place was $52,040 and three tables were paid with 27th spot paying $985.
The final table was set just before 2am at level 14 with an ante of 500 and blinds of 2000/4000. The average chip stack was 130,000 since the starting chips were 4,500. It took less than one orbit before the first elimination. On hand #8 chip leader Shan Jing is all-in with his pocket 10s against Kevin Haeri's K-Q. The flop was A-4-3 missing both players and extending Shan's lead. The turn 7 and river 8 bricked for Kevin and he found himself out in 10th place and collected $1,760.
One more trip around the table was almost complete when Shan Jing raised from the cutoff and was called all-in from the big blind. Shan held A-10 and Lance Tahata showed a dominated A-3. The flop was K-8-7 with no help to Lance and decreasing the chance of a chopped pot. The turn King and river 5 sealed the win for Shan. Lance Tahata was eliminated in 9th place for $2,110.
On hand #38, Eric Hershler, a WPT Champion, was all-in with a K-J covering Keith Rogers in the big blind with K-8. The board was A-9-2-3-9 and Eric's Jack kicker played. Keith Rogers, from Walnut, CA was out in 8th place and earned $2,815.
Just 6 hands later, 3 players got it all in and saw a flop of Qh-9h-3h. Debo Adejunmobi held Kh-K, Adam Weinraub held Q-10, and Edward Hsu held 10-10. The turn Jh sealed the deal for Debo with the King high flush. The inconsequential river was an offsuit 6. Adam Weinraub finished in 7th place for $3,515. Debo collected the sizable side pot from Edward.
The last elimination came at hand #67 when Edward Hsu did battle with the chip leader Shan Jing. Edward held A-6 and ran into Shan's pocket Queens. The board came 9-6-5-10-8 and Edward could not find his outs. Edward Hsu was eliminated in 6th place and earned $4,925.
Hand #98 was an interesting hand when Glenn Cozen, 1993 WSOP Main event runner-up, re-raised Eric Hershler all-in and Eric called preflop. Eric held big slick A-K and Glenn held a dominated K-J. The board fell 5-3-2-4-A. The river Ace took away the win from Eric and gave each player half the pot. Glenn has been called the luckiest man in WSOP Main Event history by moving up to 2nd place at the 1993 Main Event when Jim Bechtel took out John Bonetti and Glenn "folded" his way into 2nd place.
The final five players played for about 40 more hands with some casual talk of looking at a chip count every 10 hands or so. Finally, shortly after 5am, a chip count was evaluated and accepted. Shan Jing held the chip lead for the entire final table and throughout the latter stages of the tournament as well.
-- Jay "Bugsy" Siegel
BIOGRAPHY
Shan Jing has been playing poker for about 2 years. He transferred out to Los Angeles from New York City and realized he had arrived at the Poker Capitol of the world and started learning & training to play tournament No Limit Hold'em. A computer engineer for a top national bank, Shan plays exclusively tournaments and has won entries into many tournaments through on-line and live satellites. Shan played in the 2006 WSOP and has placed 17th place in the 2006 $10k event at Commerce Casino. Shan attributes his results to lots of PokerStars on-line training and obsessive poker reading including the 2+2 forum (twoplustwo.com). Shan says his style is similar to T.J. Cloutier (tight-aggressive) and he also believes that he can read his opponents well. He will adapt his style of play appropriately after he has made a read of this table.