Ben Zamani Poker
Level 29 (40,000/80,000/10,000)
Total Entries: 447
Players Remaining: 3
Average Stack: 4,470,000 (55.9 Big Blinds)
Final Table Hands: 72
Good news for Andy Spears and James Gilbert: They are guaranteed at least $19,000 more than they were one hand ago.
Bad news for Andy Spears and James Gilbert: Brian Lemke has most of the chips.
Lemke and Ben Zamani were the top two stacks at the final table until things got crazy and they were all-in pre-flop against each other. Lemke raised to 175,000 from the button. Zamani 3-bet a big stack of 25,000 chips. Lemke announced all-in and Zamani made the call for a 7-million pot.
Ben Zamani Wins 2015 World Series of Poker $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 28-Year-Old Poker Pro Wins First Bracelet After Topping 1,844-Player Field: by Erik Fast Published: Jun 11, 2015. Ben Zamani has taken his seat in the Borgata Poker Open WPT Championship and is in search of his first career WPT title after finishing runner-up in consecutive events earlier this season. The Day 1A field is nearing 300 entrants and recently joining the proceedings for the opening flight is current WPT Season XV Player of the Year leader Ben.
Zamani: {Ac}{Ks} Lemke: {As}{Jh}
Flop: {9s}{8s}{4c}
Turn: {Jc}
River: {7c}
Zamani was way ahead at the start of the hand, but Lemke paired his Jack on the turn to knock out Zamani and chip up to more than 8 million.
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Zamani can’t be too sore about Lemke’s come-from-behind win, since Zamani was on the receiving end on one of those hands about an hour ago, crippling Justin Zaki with AQ > AK.
Zamani now has more than $1.7 million in lifetime earnings, though this was his first recorded cash at the Borgata. His big score came back in January 2010. He took home $1,000,000 for a 4th-place finish in the EPT Main Event in Bahamas. He came into this final table seeking the first 1st-place finish of his career, but that quest will continue in whichever tournament he plays next – probably the $15,000 WPT Championship that starts here tomorrow.
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What lacked in quantity for U.S. poker tournaments this past week was made up with quality. Three titles were handed out with Phil Hellmuth narrowly missing out on his first World Poker Tour title at the Legends of Poker Main Event being the headliner.A few hundred miles east in Oklahoma, last year’s WPT Player of the Year, Ben Zamani reminded the poker world why he’s one of the best in the world.
Papazyan Claims Victory in Epic WPT Final Table
The WPT Legends of Poker drew a star-studded field of 763 entrants with none other than new WPT Raw Deal host Phil Hellmuth making the final table. Hellmuth had plenty of elite company sitting next to him as two-time WPT winners JC Tran and Marvin Rettenmaier both made the final six.
The two experienced pros were eliminated in third and sixth place, respectively, and 2017 Millionaire Maker runner-up DJ Alexander placed fourth.
Play went for hours until it was just Hellmuth and “Live at the Bike!” regular and cash game professional Art Papazyan heads up for the title. Papazyan took the lead early in their match and closed out the victory when his king-queen flopped a pair against Hellmuth’s ace-king to deliver him the title and $668,692 first place prize.
The next stop for the WPT is Atlantic City, New Jersey for the Borgata Poker Open Main Event, starting on September 17.
Zamani Tops Winstar Field
Immediately following the conclusion of Legends of Poker, the tournament train picked up and headed to Thackerville, OK for the Winstar$2,000,000 guaranteed event. The $2,500 buy-in tournament assembled 926 entries, pushing the prize pool slightly over the guarantee.
A dozen players returned for Day 3 of the event with 2016 WPT POY Ben Zamani holding only 10 big blinds. Zamani quickly spun up his stack into contention and made a final table that included Johanssy Joseph and 2015 Winstar Champion Maxx Coleman.
Zamani and second place finisher Chengce Jiang made a heads up save for the remaining prize pool and traded blows in their match until Zamani finished the job. This is the second title for Zamani in 2017 following his second career World Series of Poker bracelet, which he won in the $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo event.
HPT Travels to Chicagoland
The Heartland Poker Tour traveled to the Ameristar Casino in East Chicago for their $1,650 Main Event. A total of 517 entrants created a prize pool close to $750,000. The final table was headlined by Ryan Olisar, who bowed out in eighth place. Gary Herstein shipped the title and $170,404 in his second HPT final table appearance of 2017.
Next up for the HPT is a trip to Blackhawk, CO and the Golden Gates Casino with the main event running from September 13-18.
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What’s coming up in U.S. poker tournament action?
The Borgata Poker Open is in full swing with their $2,000,000 guaranteed Event 1 scheduled to play to a winner this weekend. Also, WPTDeepStacks is traveling to Immokalee, FL for a $200,000 guaranteed main event.