Sam Greenwood Wins Event #4 £10,000 Short Deck (£110,400)

After a short day to match the Short Deck format, Sam Greenwood blasted his way to victory in Event #4 of the British Poker Open by defeating Robert Flink heads-up at Aspers Casino.

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TANG AND KATZ DEPART EARLY

With Cary Katz going into his fourth successive final table this series as a massive chip leader, the Poker Central supremo would have had high hopes of taking it down, but it was not to be after a series of early-stage runouts that would frustrate the most patient of pros.

Danny Tang was first to leave, however, the Hong Kong player busting when his failed to stay ahead of Robert Flink’s on a board of .

Katz, for so long the leader in this event, would bust next, albeit for £24,000. His pocket aces were cracked by Sam Greenwood’s when the board ran out to send Katz out of the door and give Greenwood the lead.

TSANG AND FLINK FEEL THE FORCE

Both Anson Tsang and Robert Flink, who reached his second final table of the four events like Greenwood, could do nothing to prevent the latter from claiming yet another win in a spectacular year for the pro from Canada.

Tsang left the action when his was skittled by Greenwood’s flopped trip kings, and just a few short minutes later, it was all over, as the heads-up battle saw Greenwood make a flush when the money went in on the turn of a board showing , Greenwood holding for a flush and Flink with the for a straight. Flink still had outs, but only a club would do for the Swede, and the was not what he needed.

GREENWOOD DELIGHTED

“I registered, went on this crazy heater and won every all-in basically,” said Greenwood moments after his victory. “It happens a lot in Short Deck; people go from having all the chips to having no chips. I sprung 100,000 up to 1.5 million.”

Greenwood did exactly that and knows how the variance of tournament poker, and Short Deck in particular, helped him.

“On the bubble, there was intricate finesse to it, then I cracked Cary’s aces and it was just the easiest tournament I’ve played in a long time!”

It’s a victory that gives Greenwood a real foothold in the race for winning the British Poker Open leaderboard.

Here’s how everyone at the final table today fared:

Final Table Results:

That all means that the overall leaderboard in the 2019 British Poker Open sees Sam the name to beat, with Greenwood closing in on Soverel at the top with six events to play. Who’s your money on?

Current 2019 British Poker Open Leaderboard: