Rob Voigt Reaches the Summit, Earns Second WSOP Cash
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In an example of the grinding desperation exhibited by many players seeking a coveted WSOP cash, Rob “The Cooler” Voigt willed himself to the money in extraordinary fashion. During the final stages of Day 1, Voigt told us that he “folded thirty straight hands” in an attempt to slide into Day 2, and hopefully into a cash.
With the clock stopped for the day’s final seven hands, Voigt found himself in an unenviable position: he woke up with 
on the final deal of the evening. Although Voigt had told himself that he would fold any hand at this point, the sight of two cowboys peering back at him compelled what would become a fateful decision. After a raise to 2,000 in front of him, Voigt shoved his last 5,000 into the middle and began to sweat. When his opponent began staring him down from across the table, Voigt seized the moment and in his words “started begging his opponent to fold.”
Voigt warned the player that he had a made hand and pleaded with him to show mercy and toss away a holding that could outdraw his pocket pair. Eventually, after what must have seemed like hours to Voigt, the other player complied and released his 
face-up. The bargaining secured Voigt the pot and he bumped his stack up to 8,000 heading into Day 2’s bubble-bursting first level.
Sporting an Atlanta Braves jersey with the name and number of his favorite player from childhood, David Justice, Voigt told PokerNews that the inspiration for the attire was part baseball, part poker. He went on to explain that hoped “justice would be done when he had the best hand,” and thanks to some clever negotiating, Voigt earned a shot at his first ever WSOP cash.
Shortly before the start of Day 2, Voigt stopped by to tell us that “it was time to make the money” and then he backed up the boast by surviving a flurry of bustouts and bursting the bubble. Although his 
eventually succumbed to a rivered king, Voigt finished in 290th place and took home a bounty of $1,889 for his run. While a minimum cash may not attract headlines, the fact that Voigt’s passion for the game was rewarded with a tangible prize is the type of story worth capturing, and the type of story that occurs each and every day here at the World Series of Poker.