When they were on the bubble seven-handed tonight, 4th place finisher Melissa Sekulich quipped that it was “the Teo Sanchez show” tonight. She wasn’t wrong — Sanchez had the big stack from seven ways all the way down to the win.
Chatting with him after the win, he said this was his favorite game to play, and it’s pretty clear he understands how to play community games with two or four cards. His run through the final table was dominated by aggression, raising most of the pots, and stealing chips on a regular basis with pressure on stacks looking to ladder.
When cards were revealed, he was generally best. In several hands, he found the goods, notably sending Don McCall home in 6th place after running out to the river boat in PLO, then scoring a double knockout of Sekulich and Deven Lane when his ace-queen found an ace in a huge pot where Sekulich shoved her button with nines, and Lane reshoved the small with jacks.
In fact, it was Sanchez who dispatched every player from 7th down to the end. When he got heads up with Sebastian Crema, it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing, as Crema managed to chip up to about a 3:2 deficit at one point. But it all went south for Crema in a huge hand where he bluffed a busted diamond draw in PLO, and Sanchez sniffed it out.
This was his first win on the live felt, and will be his biggest score by a small margin with his previous best score at just under $7k Canadian.
