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Finished this morning in London after a mammoth final table session. John Juanda eventually managed to beat the painfully slow (at times) Stanislav Alekhin. The Russian had played extremely well to build up a solid chip lead but after Juanda had bullied some of Alekhin's raises, it came down to a big hand which decimated Alekhin.
Juanda ($3m chips) limped in to the pot with about $300k on the table and the flop came down Kc Qd 5c (from memory). Alekhin ($4m chips) raised it up by $270k and after a brief pause Juanda went all in. I can only assume Alekhin thought Juanda was trying another steal and with a lot of outs, called straight off.
He'll probably have nightmares about this hand in the future as he held 3c4c with a flush draw but he was behind any matched pair on the table and was at best going to be 50:50 but more lilely, as it turned out, 38:62 down. Juanda showed top pair and a better kicker than Alekhin's 3 or 4 with K6 and the Kings held.
After that, Alekhin tried to all in to catch Juanda out but Juanda called him again with K6. This time v A9 pre-flop and when the flop came with two sixes, it was all over bar the shouting.
What's most remarkable is that the last sesssion had run solidly from about midday yesterday, all through the night before finally finishing around eleven this morning. With the levels of concentration you need, this is absolutely astonishing. 2 hours on, 20 minutes break and no time for sleep with every hand bringing a fresh risk to your tournament. They had been heads up for about 7 and a half hours when Alekhin finally cracked.
Juanda ($3m chips) limped in to the pot with about $300k on the table and the flop came down Kc Qd 5c (from memory). Alekhin ($4m chips) raised it up by $270k and after a brief pause Juanda went all in. I can only assume Alekhin thought Juanda was trying another steal and with a lot of outs, called straight off.
He'll probably have nightmares about this hand in the future as he held 3c4c with a flush draw but he was behind any matched pair on the table and was at best going to be 50:50 but more lilely, as it turned out, 38:62 down. Juanda showed top pair and a better kicker than Alekhin's 3 or 4 with K6 and the Kings held.
After that, Alekhin tried to all in to catch Juanda out but Juanda called him again with K6. This time v A9 pre-flop and when the flop came with two sixes, it was all over bar the shouting.
What's most remarkable is that the last sesssion had run solidly from about midday yesterday, all through the night before finally finishing around eleven this morning. With the levels of concentration you need, this is absolutely astonishing. 2 hours on, 20 minutes break and no time for sleep with every hand bringing a fresh risk to your tournament. They had been heads up for about 7 and a half hours when Alekhin finally cracked.
