2009 WSOP Main Event - The Final Table

November Nine Final Table
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Event Info

2009 WSOP Main Event - The Final Table

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
99
Prize
$8,547,042
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$27,220,989
Entries
9
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
1,000,000 / 2,000,000
Ante
300,000

Hand #55 - Ivey Squeezes Akenhead

Darvin Moon has the button. Actions passes to short-stacked James Akenhead, who is in the unenviable position of being to the right of Phil Ivey. Akenhead makes it 1.2 million to go. Ivey squeezes his cards and then asks Akenhead for a count (about 5.9 million). Ivey tanks for thirty seconds and then moves all in, having Akenhead covered 2-to-1.

Now it's Akenhead's turn in the tank. He started play as the short stack, tripled up in a wild hand against Eric Buchman, and then got coolered with pocket kings against Kevin Schaffel's pocket aces. He seems pained but folds to Ivey's pressure.

Tags: James AkenheadPhil Ivey