
The play so far at the 2011 WSOP final table has been nothing if not interesting but in the final hour of level 37 professional goes against newbee at an astounding rate.
Staszko holds his own against Ben Lamb and wins the pot with a re-raise before a flop ever happened. Heinz and Collins go at it again Heinz re raises over $2 million to Collins $500K. After some deliberation Collins re-raises to $4.5 million and things start to get tense. Heinz goes all in with A-K and wins a $24 million pot. A little new school teaching old school. Heinz goes into fourth place.
Giannetti and Bounahra go head to head with a flop of J-Q-9 but Bounahra folds against Giannetti's straight draw.
Heinz, O'Dea and Lamb enjoy a little action creating a $10 million pot before the flop. Lamb folds before the flop. Flop is 8-8-4. O'Dea bets $4.6 million and the pot keeps climbing. Heinz calls. Turn is a two of clubs. Pot is at $20 million. O'Dea raises $8milion! Heinz debates his move for five minutes and then goes all in! O'Dea folds! Heinz had pair 0f queens and O'Dea had A-Q. Heinz moves into second place. That was an intense few minutes. O'Dea has gone from second to eight place. Is anyone going out today?
Pius is the second German ever to get to the final table. I must admit I was leaning towards O'Dea but if Heinz can keep up this aggressive play throughout day one who knows what kind of heads up play we can expect on Tuesday.
Suddenly Staszko raises on the button and Sam Holden goes all in with $8.95 million. The pot is up to $11 million before the flop. Staszko folds and Holden holds on a little longer increasing his by 25 percent. Things are starting to roller coaster.