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Daniel Santoro Wins WPT Foxwoods Poker Finals

07.02.12

If anyone in the crowd blinked, they might have forgotten Eli Berg was even there, as he went out on the third hand of the day.  Berg raised pre-flop to 36,000 and both Christian Harder and Andy Frankenberger called.  Berg opened the betting again after a K-7-7 flop, Harder called the 73,000 chip bet, and Frankenberger folded.  When a Ten dealt on the turn, Berg slowed down and checked, but then moved all-in after Harder bet 104,000.  Harder called, showing A-A, while Berg was behind with K-Q.  Another Seven fell on the river, clinching the hand for Harder and sending Berg home in 6th place.

Frankenberger hit the rail just after Berg, on hand 13.  After a pre-flop bet by Steven Brackesy , a call by Santoro, and a re-raise by Harder, Frankenberger moved all-in.  The first two to put their money in the pot folded, but Harder called with pocket Kings, facing off with Frankenberger’s A-T.  While Frankenberger did pair his Ten, he needed more than that to win and was eliminated in 5th place.  That hand gave Harder a healthy chip lead with a stack of 2,149,000.

Ten hands later, we had what was perhaps the biggest hand of the final table.  Brackesy, the chip leader to start the day, got into a pre-flop raising war with Santoro before ending up all-in with a shaky A-4 suited.  Santoro made the call with pocket Queens.  None of the community cards helped Brackesy and just like that, after having almost 1.5 million chips to start the hand, he was gone.  Santoro was now up to 3,279,000, more than 1.3 million ahead of Harder.

Source: Poker News Daily