Jacob Mitich Wins Event #6: $400 Monster Triple Stack ($22,298)
Event #6: $400 Monster Triple Stack at the Potomac Winter Poker Open attracted 275 runners generating a prize pool of $91,770. On Wednesday, 28 players returned for the second and final day, all eyeing the top prize of $22,298.
After just over five hours of fast paced action, Jacob Mitich of Maryland came out on top to record the best live cash of his career. Though William Pinkerton came second, not a single hand of heads-up poker was played after Pinkerton, facing a large chip deficit, decided to simply accept the second place prize.
Event #6:$400 Monster Triple Stack Final Table Results
| Position | Name | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob Mitich | United States | $22,298 |
| 2 | William Pinkerton | United States | $13,582 |
| 3 | Brett Butz | United States | $9,865 |
| 4 | James Liddell | United States | $7,617 |
| 5 | Minwoo Ahn | United States | $5,506 |
| 6 | Jim Dike | United States | $4,310 |
| 7 | Belram Rais | United States | $3,212 |
| 8 | Alan Gendelman | United States | $2,524 |
| 9 | Cory Sitzman | United States | $1,835 |
The average stack depth when play commenced was very shallow and remained so throughout the day with the field being quickly cut down to the final table. One player unfortunate enough not to make the final table was start of day chipleader and WSOP bracelet winner Lara Eisenberg after she suffered a series of setbacks that left her short.
Final Table Action
Cory Sitzman became the first casualty of the final table after his ace-four could not hold against James Liddell's jack-ten. Alan Gendelman was next to go when ran his nines into the jacks of Brett Butz.
Butz continued his comeback from starting the final table as the short stack by flopping trips against Belram Rais to send Rais to the rail in 7th place. Jim Dike crashed out in 6th after being left short by Pinkerton to setup five-handed action.
Minwoo Ahn, who began the day third in chips, ran into the aces of Mitich to bust in 4th. At this point, Mitich had begun to put considerable distance between himself and the rest of the field, even controlling more than half of the chips in play at points. He used that to leverage extreme ICM pressure on his three opponents.
It took some time for the next elimination to occur but eventually Liddell was sent to the rail when Pinkerton rivered a flush against him. It did not long after that for Butz to be ousted when Mitich made a straight to overcome his nines.
That elimination should have setup a heads-up battle between Pinkerton and Mitich but Pinkerton immediately asked to just take second place money, pointing out that the considerable chip discrepancy between the two made a comeback unlikely. Mitich, of course, did not object and with that was crowned the winner to go along with the $22,298 first place prize. Pinkerton, meanwhile, was visibly happy at taking home an impressive $13,582 for coming in second.
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