WSOP Event #35 - $1,500 No Limit Holdem
Monday, June 25, 2007 | Adrian Milewski
Another massive field showed up to take part in Event #35 which was another $1,500 NLHE tournament which once again overflowed the main Amazon room into not just the overflow Pavilion Tent but also into other areas of the Rio.
As this massive field was narrowed down the final table lined up as follows:
- Seat 1: Darren Glenn — 317,000
- Seat 2: Nam Le — 446,000
- Seat 3: John Esposito — 890,000
- Seat 4: Joe Holmes — 413,000
- Seat 5: Dustin Dirksen — 1,680,000
- Seat 6: Paul Cheung — 552,000
- Seat 7: Ryan Young — 2,501,000
- Seat 8: Michael Trimby — 656,000
- Seat 9: Raj Jain — 183,000
This event was to be broadcast live over the internet and so the final table once again took place in the secluded Bluff Tent with each player only allowed one guest into the tent to watch.
It was Joe Holmes who was the first to be eliminated, when his stack was going in the wrong direction for most of the first stage of the final table and was eventually eliminated after 20 or so hands. He made a move with J-10 and was called by Dustin Dirksen’s pocket 7’s which held up to knock Holmes out in 9th place and send him home with $36,751.
Darren Glenn was next to leave when he moved all in on pocket 4’s only to be met with Nam Le’s pocket Aces. No help came and Glenn left in 8th place winning $46,806.
Chip Leader Ryan Young was being very aggressive and he claimed the next elimination when Raj Jain moved in with 
after a flop of 
and was called by Young who had hit two pair with 
. The remaining cards of 
and 
were no help to Jain and he was eliminated in 7th place collecting $62,048.
Paul Cheung was the next one eliminated when he ran his pocket 5’s into Nam Le’s pocket jacks and when the board gave Le trip Jacks then Cheung’s day was over and he left in 6th place with $62,048.
Almost immediately after this we had another elimination when Michael Trimby moved all in from the cutoff seat holding 
and Dustin Dirksen called with 
. With the board coming down 
Dirksen’s full house eliminated Trimby in 5th place with a prize of $79,743.
Once again it was only a short time before the next elimination just 5 or so hands later when John Esposito moved all in after his A-10 had made a pair of 10’s on the flop. Young however was holding pocket Aces and Esposito found no help and was eliminated in 4th place taking home $156,020.
Nam Le suffered after a busted straight draw left him behind to Dirksen’s pocket 10’s and Le was eliminated in 3rd place taking home a considerable consolation prize of $239,230.
Down to heads up play and the chip counts were
- Ryan Young - 5,295,000
- Dustin Dirksen - 2,325,000
The heads up duel went on for some time, and it was Young who took the advantage with some big early on pots. Eventually Young had stretched his chip lead to almost 6-1 over Dirksen and when Young moved all in from the button with 
he was called by Dirksen holding 
. The board came 
which brought no help to Dirksen and Young took the 1st place prize of $615,955 and the WSOP bracelet.
The final standings for Event #35 of WSOP 2007 were:
- Ryan Young — $615,955
- Dustin Dirksen — $381,381
- Nam Le — $239,230
- John Esposito — $156,020
- Michael Trimby — $62,048
- Paul Cheung — $79,743
- Raj Jain — $62,048
- Darren Glenn — $46,806
- Joe Holmes — $36,751
There’s still time to qualify for the WSOP main event by winning one of the many satellites taking place on Pokerstars.
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