Live Tournament Updates: Derrick Rosenbarger wins WPT Montreal

Live tournament updates from around the world see Derrick Rosenbarger join the World Poker Tour (WPT) Champions Club with victory at WPT Montreal; the WSOPC close off events 5 & 6 in Atlantic City and Poker Night in America hauls into the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh.

Derrick Rosenbarger came into the final table of the WPT Montreal with just one live tournament cash to his name, with a min cash in a $1,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, but the lad from Clovis New Mexico now has two after taking the title at the Playground Poker Club inMontreal; and $500,824 in prize money.

WPT S12 partypoker Montreal Champion Derrick Rosenbarger
Final Table

Seat 1: Serge Cantin – 6,960,000 (116 bb)

Seat 2: Mukul Pahuja – 5,945,000 (99 bb)

Seat 3; Derrick Rosenbarger – 1,985,000 (33 bb)

Seat 4: Alexandre Lavigne – 2,150,000 (35 bb)

Seat 5: Lily Kiletto – 370,000 (6 bb)

Seat 6: Sylvain Siebert – 8,435,000 (140 bb)

The two names that stood out from a poker personality point of view were Lily Kiletto and Mukul Pahuja. Both players having secured the most big time tournament spotlight, with Kileto making her second WPT final table and Pahuja making his second major final table of the year.

Kiletto was the favorite to head out of the door first as she sat down with just 6BB and so it was no surprise that she was the first player getting stuck in when she doubled on two consecutive occasions to give herself a glimmer of hope.

In the first double up Kiletto found a couple of eights when she got it in with [Ah] [8h] against the pocket deuces of Mukul Pahuja, and then she found herself in a dominating position with [Kh] [Jh] v [9h] [7h] of Sylvain Siebert to make it two in a row.

That put the pressure on Alexandre Lavigne who now became one of the shorter stacks in the room and he would exit in sixth place after moving all-in with [Kd] [8c] and getting called by Serge Cantin and pocket tens. The tens held and Cantin took the chip lead.

Kiletto’s good fortunate would eventually hit the buffer stops when she ran ace-eight off suit into the suited ace-queen of Siebert, but has to be happy with a fifth place finish after starting the final table with so few chips.

Next we saw the emergence of the eventual winner as Rosenbarger doubled through Cantin [Qc] [9c] v ace-king when a queen appeared on the flop, yet despite that double up Cantin was still the runaway chip leader and Rosenbarger was still 4/4.

Next we lost the starting day chip leader Sylvain Siebert when he moved all-in with [Ad] [6d] and was snapped up by the pocket eights of Cantin. The snowmen picked up a set on the turn and Siebert was out in fourth.

Then disaster for Cantin as he got it in with Mukul Pahuja 88 v AK with Pahuja nailing an ace on the flop to send Cantin out in third, and we were heads up for the title with Pahuja holding all the chips (17.6m v 8.25m), all the experience and all of the momentum.

Rosenbarger just got his head down and his chips in the middle and soon doubled on [6d] [3d] [2h] when his top pair out lasted the flush draw of Pahuja. The experienced Pahuja didn’t let that double up phase him and soon retook the lead until the pair clashed in the most important hand of the tournament.

Rosenbarger opened to 425,000, Pahuja three-bet to 975,000 and Rosenbarger called. The flop was [As] [8c] [8h] Pahuja bet 650,000; Rosenbarger made it 1,300,000 and Pahuja called. The turn was the [Jh] Pahuja checked, Rosenbarger bet 2,100,000, Pahuja moved all-in and Rosenbarger called off his final 6m and took the pot with [Ts] [8s] for trips; Pahuja was holding [Qs] [7h] for the bag of bones.

That catapulted Rosenbarger into an unassailable lead and would mop up when he was on hand with pocket queens to call an all-in from Pahuja holding [Ad] [4d].  After the flop, turn and river steered clear of any surprises Derrick Rosenbarger was crowned the WPT Montreal champion.

Final Table Standings

1: Derrick Rosenbarger – $500,824

2: Mukul Pahuja – $340,928

3: Serge Cantin – $220,170

4: Sylvain Siebert – $162,936

5: Lily Kiletto – $121,848

6: Alexandre Lavigne – $98,574

Frank Conti Wins Event #5 and Phillip Hui wins Event #6 at WSOPC in Atlantic City

The WSOPC event at the Harrah’s casino has consigned its fifth and sixth events to the record books and it was the old man at the table who reigned supreme against the kids, as Frank Conti overcome a 296-player field to take the $21,313 first-prize in Event #5 $365 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) 6-max event.

Phillip Hui took the sixth event when he defeated 225 players in the $365 NLHE Turbo event for a $16,877 score.

Larry Pileggi Wins the Pittsburgh Poker Open Championship

Poker Night in America continued to trundle across the states with its third showing in Pittsburgh at the Rivers Casino.

It was a $1,000 event that saw 296-players create the largest prize pool in the casinos history and Larry Pileggi walked away with the $71,782 first prize after defeating a field that contained the likes of Greg Raymer, Dan O’Brien and Darvin Moon.