Saturday, January 22, 2011

Event 5 Champion: D'Alessandro

$400 + $50 Omaha H/L 8B

Tim D'Alessandro (West Chester, PA)
$18,624


After 2 3/4 hours of heads-up play Tim D'Alessandro takes down the Omaha H/L 8B tournament by defeating Brent Keller (Horsham, PA).

D'Alessandro began the marathon with a 1.2 million to 300k chip lead, but skill and structure allows both players to battle with Keller flipping the tables, before D'Alessandro rallies to win the final hand with 5 7 J♠ Q♠.

"This is great," says D'Alessandro, "this is the first big tournament where I was heads up and win outright, it feels good to finally take one down."

On the winning hand D'Alessandro hits a flush on the turn to end the tournament.