WORLD SERIES OF POKER 2000
EVENT #13 SEVEN-CARD STUD (high-low split)
$2,500 BUY-IN
$2,500 in chips
IF SOMEONE WINS, SOMEONE LOSES
By Mike Paulle
It's a shame, really, that there had to be a loser in last
night's titanic
heads up struggle. Both opponents played their hearts out for so
long. But
that's why we play the game, to determine a winner. One person
gets to wear
the bracelet for the rest of their lives; the other person gets to think
about what might have been for just as long. The money? The
money's the least
of it.
There were 129 entrants in the $2,500 Buy-In, Stud Hi-Lo for a
total prize
pool of $322,500. 2 tables were paid, a total of 16 players.
One card at any time could have made the difference for Mallory
Smith, but
the card didn't come. Instead Raymond Miller squeezed into the
last seat as
the music stopped Thursday night.
Coming back Friday afternoon, this looked to be a battle of two bracelet
winners as the chip leaders. Nat Koe won this year's Event #7.
Mike Matusow
won in 1999 and could talk a deaf person out of a pot.
THE FINAL TABLE
78 mins left of 80. The ante is $5300, bring-in $1,000,
playing $3000/$6000
| Player/Hometown | Chip Count |
| Seat 1: Andreas Krause (Weinsberg, Germany) | $33,500 |
| Seat 2: Nat Koe (Irvine, CA) | $82,000 |
| Seat 3: Mark Gregorich (Las Vegas, NV) | $37,000 |
| Seat 4: Raymond Miller (Jacksonville, FL) | $10,000 |
| Seat 5: Rich Chiovari (Park Ridge, IL) | $32,000 |
| Seat 6: Mike Matusow (Henderson, NV) | $57,500 |
| Seat 7: Gino DiPeppe (Glen Burnie, MD) | $15,500 |
| Seat 7: Joseph Wynn (Winnetka, CA) | $55,000 |
If you are going to go all-in for your case chips, the 2 3 8 of
Clubs isn't
too bad place to start in Stud Hi-Lo. But the A 4 5 Raymond
Miller needed for
a wheel were in Joseph Wynn's hand and two more Clubs didn't materialize,
meanwhile Raymond caught a brickyard for 8th place.
'Mouth' is a fitting nickname for Mike Matusow. The popular Matusow never
takes a breath. He'll tell you, and everyone else within earshot, how his
hand should have been played and how everyone else's hand should
have been
played. "I had two huge hands and both of them got ironed out,"
Mike moaned.
Matusow expected to win this event, instead he as out in the
first half hour.
Mike got run over by two wheels. Andreas Krause made the first
one on Matusow
when Mike started with A B C, which is A 2 3 in Stud Hi-Lo parlance. Then
before Mike could get back up, Joe Wynn ran over him with the
second wheel
when Matusow started with A A 5, made Aces up and an 8 6 low.
All-in with a
low draw, the 'Mouth' was silenced in 7th when all Mike could make were a
pair of 6's while Andreas Krause made Kings.
In Stud Hi-Lo it can get real ugly for the high side when the low
straight
and flush draws don't get there. Rich Chiovari had the world's fair for a
draw all-in for his last $13k. When none of his multiple outs
came, Rich was
poorer in 6th for having only a pair of 5's for high. Mark
Gregorich didn't
do much better on his draws but Mark had a pair of 8's.
"Where were these cards when I had chips!" Gino DiPeppe shouted in
frustration. While going all-in repeatedly with his last few
chips, Gino made
quads, nut straights and flushes. These hands netted Gino almost
nothing as
they only won the high side of small pots. What DiPeppe really had needed
earlier was for Joe Wynn not to have caught a third 8 all-in on the river
when Gino had 6's and 4's in a giant pot. In Gino's final hand
for 5th place,
DiPeppe made a low but Andreas Krause made a better low with Aces
for high.
The chips were fairly even with four players, so they took most
of the money
off the table. With two events the night before that lasted until
6 am Friday
morning, an exhausted tournament staff started thinking that
there may be an
early out tonight. Guess again. Never underestimate the desire of poker
players for a World Series bracelet. Nat Koe had his, but that's
not why he
finished 4th. Nat had pocket Jacks against a 10 showing for Mark
Gregorich.
Koe was correct; he was leading. Nat made Jacks up on the river,
where Mark
made trip 10's.
A disappointed Mark Gregorich was 3rd as he bet his Queens
all-in, only to
have Andreas Krause make Kings up.
Nearly three hours later and we are still here. Limited space
doesn't allow a
rundown of all the dramatic hands between these two courageous
players for
all that time. Suffice it to say they both had several chances to
win that
they were unable to take advantage of. It took a betting level of
$30,000/$60,000 to get Joseph Wynn and Andreas Krause to play a
final hand.
That's how even this match-up was. And they played $30k/$60k for nearly a
half hour! Too bad only one of these fine players would get a bracelet,
because they both played brilliantly under extreme duress.
Neither deserved
to lose as they each threw away cards, with a lot of their own
money in the
pot, that most players would have gone broke with long before.
But if someone wins, then someone has to lose. If you have to lose, as a
gracious Andreas Krause did, at least lose massively. When the
low draw was
gone for Andreas the final hand was over. There was no catching
Joe Wynn for
the high. Joe started with pocket 9's and caught two more for
quad 9's. What
a hand to win a bracelet on!
Official Money Winners
| 1. Joseph Wynn | $129,000 |
| 2. Andreas Krause | $64,500 |
| 3. Mark Gregorich | $32,250 |
| 4. Nat Koe | $19,350 |
| 5. Gino DiPeppe | $16,125 |
| 6. Rich Chiovari | $12,900 |
| 7. Mike Matusow | $9,680 |
| 8. Raymond Miller | $6,455 |
9th-12th received $4,835
Mallory Smith, Maureen Feduniak, William Skaggs and Greg Mascio
13th-16th received $3,225
Mel Judah, Fernando Bracelli, JJ Volpe and David Holzderber
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