Florida players Barry Hutter & Ben Zamani made the heads up of World Series of Poker event 14 a state affair this weekend when they battled for supremacy in the $1,500 buy-in NLHE Shootout competition in Las Vegas.
Among the starters in this competition were names like Dominik Nitschke, Rep Porter, Justin Bonomo, Mark Radoja, Dave Tuthill & Matt Gianetti.
The duo from Florida were among the survivors of a field of 1,000 entrants that generated a prize pool of $1.35 million for the tournament & distilled to an 11-hour final table in which two women players, Kitty Kuo & Elizabeth Montizanti, finished high in the pay-outs.
The departure of former WSOP main event champ Dennis Phillips in third for $113,265 set the scene for the fifty hand heads up, which Zamani started with a 2 to 1 chip advantage, but Hutter finished after taking the lead & eliminating his hard-driving opposition at second for $174,771.
Twenty-nine-year-old Hutter scored his first WSOP bracelet & the main prize of $283,546 – his third cash in the current World Series. Other final table cashes included:
Kitty Kuo $82,890
Elizabeth Montizanti $61,560
Orson Young $46,332
Anton Smirnov $35,302
Daniel Strelitz $27216
Grayson Ramage $21,208.
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