Allen "AawwNutz" Carter Wins WPT Southern Poker Championship
The World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship
started the four day event on January 14, 2009 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
The 283 players arrived at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino hoping
to walk away with the million dollar prize and the guaranteed seat in
the WPT Championship that will be held in April. However, only one player
could hold out until the last day to claim the title of WPT champion,
that player was Allen "AawwNutz!" Carter.
Vanessa Rousso just missed the final
six as she bubbled the final-table once again, in sort of a déjà vu
ending for her as she came in seventh. In the 2006 WPT World Championship
she had the same unfortunate elimination. Also in attendance for the
WPT Southern Poker Tournament was the defending champion Brett Faustman.
Adversely, Faustman was eliminated as of the first day.
The entire tournament was intense, exciting
poker play and the final table turned out to hold the same excitement.
The players that made the final six seats on day four were Hilbert Shirey,
Bobby Suer, Tyler Smith, Allen Carter, Soheil Shamseddin and Chuck Kim.
Kim was the first of the day to bust after 93 hands and walked away
with his first WPT cash prize of $105,490.
Tyler Smith took fifth place after a
lost race to Allen Carter and was awarded $134,500. The next player
to go was Hilbert Shirey when Bobby Suer called with A-8. His ace on
the flop had held up leaving Shirey's J-10 suited to take fourth place
earning him $184,607.
The remaining three finished with Soheil
Shamseddin making an inopportune bluff attempt on the river and ending
with $263,725 for his third place finish. Carter and Suer continued
over 30 more hands when Carter's A-4 made the wheel alongside A-K
giving him the title plus $1 million and sending Suer to the runner
up position with $501,028.
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