WPT $25,000 Championship - Bellagio

WPT Championship Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info

WPT $25,000 Championship - Bellagio

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kj
Prize
$3,970,415
Event Info
Buy-in
$25,000
Prize Pool
$15,495,750
Entries
639
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
300,000

Hand #105

Hand #105 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks. The flop comes {A-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 400,000, and Mortensen folds. Morrison takes the pot.

Hands #103-104

Hand #103 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks. The flop comes {A-Spades}{5-Spades}{2-Hearts}, and both players check. The turn card is the {8-Clubs}, Mortensen bets 800,000, and Morrison folds. Mortensen takes the pot.

Hand #104 - Carlos Mortensen has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Morrison checks. The flop comes {8-Diamonds}{5-Clubs}{2-Diamonds}, and both players check. The turn card pairs the board with the {5-Hearts}, Morrison bets 400,000, and Mortensen calls. The river card is the {3-Hearts}, Morrison bets 700,000, and Mortensen folds. Morrison takes the pot.

Hands #101-102

Hand #101 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks his option. The flop comes {10-Spades}{5-Hearts}{2-Clubs}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 500,000, and Mortensen folds. Morrison takes the pot.

Hand #102 - Carlos Mortensen has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Morrison checks. The flop comes {Q-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}, and both players check. The turn card is the {A-Hearts} and they check again. The river card is the {7-Clubs}, and they check again. Morrison shows a 2 to win the pot with a pair of deuces.

Hands #98-99

Hand #98 - Carlos Mortensen has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Morrison checks his option. The flop comes {A-Hearts}{Q-Hearts}{9-Spades}, Morrison checks, Mortensen bets 400,000, and Morrison folds. Mortensen takes the pot.

Hand #99 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks his option. The flop comes {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}, and both players check. The turn card is the {10-Spades}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 500,000, and Mortensen calls. The river card is the {5-Spades}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 1 million, and Mortensen calls.

Morrison shows a 10 for a pair of tens, and Mortensen shows a 9 for a pair of nines. Morrison takes the pot.

Hands #96-97

Hand #96 - Carlos Mortensen has the button, he raises to 1.2 million, and Morrison folds.

Hand #97 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks his option. The flop comes {K-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{9-Spades}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 400,000, and Mortensen calls. The turn card is the {7-Hearts}, and both players check. The river card is the {2-Clubs}, and they check again. Mortensen shows 10-4 to win the pot with a pair of tens.

Jack McClelland: "Carlos had 10-4, and Kirk was over and out."

Hands #94-95

Hand #94 - Carlos Mortensen has the button, he moves all in, and Morrison folds.

Hand #95 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he limps for 400,000, and Mortensen checks his option. The flop comes {10-Spades}{8-Clubs}{4-Hearts}, and both players check. The turn card is the {6-Clubs}, Mortensen bets 400,000, and Morrison calls. The river card is the {3-Diamonds}, Mortensen checks, Morrison bets 1.3 million, and Mortensen folds. Morrison takes the pot.

Hand #93: Kirk Morrison Makes a Monster Call for a Monster Pot

Kirk Morrison
Kirk Morrison
Hand #93 - Kirk Morrison has the button, he raises to 1 million, and Mortensen calls. The flop comes {10-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}, and both players check. The turn card pairs the board with the {10-Diamonds}, Mortensen bets 1.6 million, and Morrison calls. The river card puts trips on the board with the {10-Hearts}, Mortensen bets 4 million, and Morrison studies Mortensen for several long, quiet minutes.

If Morrison calls, this pot will be worth 13.3 million, and could swing the entire tournament.

Morrison finally calls, showing A-J for trip tens with an ace kicker. Mortensen shows K-2 for trip tens with a king kicker. Morrison makes an extremely difficult call to win a huge pot and take a big lead in the final stage of this tournament.

Tags: Carlos MortensenKirk Morrison

The Dance

Heads-up can be a tricky aspect of tournament poker. Some of the best players in the world have problems adjusting to heads-up. You have to start playing a wider variety of hands and that makes it harder to read your opponents.

Another difficult aspect of heads-up to overcome is the fact that you are forced to play every single hand and focus during every moment of play. During full tables, it's possible to take a hand or two off and space out after mucking a hand.

The player who displays the best mental toughness usually prevails heads-up.