Brett Worton has won this event a couple of years ago in 2022, and he’s bagged a couple of second places and other cashes in Seniors games around Alberta. He came close to a second win tonight as the table captain for most of the final table, but he’ll have to settle for another second place after John Donnelly had a huge heads-up to take down the title.
Worton was the big stack for the whole final table until they got two ways. He started heads up with a big lead, but Donnelly doubled early. “Now we have a game,” Worton said when it was about 1.2m to 900k.
He might have wished that wasn’t quite so prophetic as the game was indeed on. Donnelly came back a few minutes later with a big double to the lead when his ace-queen held over ace-ten for Worton. That left Worton on about 400k, less than 10 bigs.
He managed to come back a bit and was up to around 800k when the final hand came down. It was all in before the flop with Worton on ace-seven over ace-five with a good shot at a double or at least a chopped pot.
The poker gods had other ideas, however, as Donnelly found his five on the river for the win.
