| Level: | 25 (25000/50000/50000) |
| Entries: | 1/117 |
| Prizes: | $100,035 |
Eric Wasylenko came into the final table of seven players with one of the shorter stacks, but after George Yang busted in 7th place to get them to the official 6-handed final table, he got to second after a big hand with leader Jerry Li. Wasylenko woke up with aces just before the end of Level 20, and got a huge double against Li’s jack-ten suited.
That put Wasy in second, and he never looked back. Wasy found another big spot against Scott Munro to get them five-handed, when he rivered a heart flush with the same card that gave Munro a set of queens. All credit to Monroe, he tanked for around five minutes, calling the queen of hearts the worst card in the deck before he finally called and showed down his black queens.
Wasy turned over three-four of hearts for the flush, and chipped up near even with Li. Wasy took the lead three ways and looked like he might run over the table, but 3rd place Ramaz Haymour wasn’t giving up his chips lightly. He hung around with the short stack for almost an hour. He was finally too short and shoved the small blind with king-deuce, and wasylenko called with more and an ace-seven.
An ace-seven on the flop pretty much sealed the deal, though Haymour turned some faint hope with a king. The river bricked for Haymour, the Wasy had a small advantage heads up with Li.
Li then found another run-good gear, flopping it twice in two successive hands for big pots. In the first, he flopped a wheel, and while he didn’t get paid on the river, he still picked up chips. Immediately after that, he tripped on the flop with nines and got paid on the river for a huge chip up to the lead.
In the final hand, Wasy was short and shoved deuces. Li called it down with ace-five for the win. Wasy looked good through most of the board, but an ace on the river sent him out in 2nd place.
