Tristan Wade Wins WSOPE Event #4 €3,200 Shootout

Poker News / Short-Stacked Shamus / 14 October 2011 / Leave a Comment

Tristan Wade, 2011 WSOPE Event #4 Champion (Photo credit: PokerNews)

Wade won three differently-sized tables in three days to grab the gold and €182,048 first prize.

In one of the more unusually-structured bracelet events in World Series of Poker history, Tristan Wade of the United States took bracelet #4 at this year's WSOPE in the €3,200 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout. Wade won three differently-sized tables in three days to grab the gold and €182,048 first prize, outlasting fellow American Michael Watson heads-up to claim the win.

The event's unique format meant that 10 players from the starting field of 258 had survived to Thursday's final day of play. Day 1 had seen that starting group play eight- and nine-handed tables, with the 30 players winning their tables all making the money and Day 2.

Among those winning their way to Wednesday but no further were Tobias Reinkemeier, David Peters, Terrence Chan, James Mitchell, Chad Brown, Vanessa Selbst, Freddy Deeb, and 2011 November Niner Anton Makiievskyi, each of whom earned a payday of €6,913.

Then on Wednesday the remaining 30 broke down into 10 three-handed tables, with the 10 winners moving on to regroup around a final table on Thursday. Since players carried chips forward from day to day, starting stacks for the final 10 were not exactly uniform, although everyone began in roughly the same range with between 230,000 and 246,000 chips.

It was near the second hour of poker that John Armbrust became the day's first elimination. After losing much of his stack on a failed bluff attempt versus Max Silver, Armbrust shoved with 6s-6h and was against Taylor Paur's Ad-7c.

The flop came Qc-8c-2c and Armbrust was still ahead, but the 7s turn paired Paur. The river then brought the 6c -- a set for Armbrust, but a flush for Paur, sending the American out in 10th.

The next one-hour level saw another elimination in James Dempsey after the Brit ran 8d-8h into Bertrand Grospellier's and failed to improve.

Then Level 4 saw three more fall in rapid fashion. Paur went out in eighth when his Kc-Jc fell to Silver's pocket rockets. Emil Patel next ran Ad-Qh into Richard Toth's As-Kc to go out in seventh. Then the red-hot Steve O'Dwyer was eliminated by Wade in sixth when his Kc-Jd couldn't catch versus Wade's As-Js.

With five left, Wade had pulled out in front with close to 800,000, with Toth next with just over 550,000.

Meanwhile Grospellier had become the table's short stack with less than 230,000, and not long after the dinner break ElkY got it all in with Kd-Qd versus Michael Watson's 6s-6d. The flop brought a six, improving Watson to a set, and two cards later Grospellier was gone in fifth.

Silver followed the Frenchman to the rail shortly thereafter when his 4c-4s succumbed to leader Wade's Ks-Kc. Then Watson took care of Toth in third, using Ac-Kd against the Hungarian's Qc-10h to set up heads-up.

That hand pushed Watson ahead of Wade to start heads-up play with 1.378 million to Wade's 985,000. The pair proceeded cautiously at the outset, with Wade chipping up slightly, then pulling even.

Wade kept up the pressure, eventually pushed out to a 2-to-1 chip advantage over his fellow American. Watson fell further, then doubled up with Ks-10s versus Wade's pocket jacks, flopping a king to do so.

But soon Watson was all in and at risk again, this time with Ah-5h while Wade had again drawn Js-Jh. The board ran out Qs-Qd-4h-10c-2h, and Wade had won.

Event #4 final table payouts:

1st: Tristan Wade (United States) -- €182,048

2nd: Michael Watson (United States) -- €112,526


3rd: Richard Toth (Hungary) -- €84,016
4th: Max Silver (Great Britain) -- €63,151
5th: Bertrand Grospellier (France) -- €47,763
6th: Steve O'Dwyer (United States) -- €36,357
7th: Emil Patel (United States) -- €27,842
8th: Taylor Paur (United States) -- €21,459
9th: James Dempsey (United Kingdom) -- €16,637
10th: John Armbrust (United States) -- €12,981

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