DOUGHTY DAUT TAKES THE CARIBBEAN ONLINE POKER POT
12 January 2007
22 year old grad student has a $1.5 million boost for his banking
Starting at a chip count disadvantage at a final table of six in the Poker
Stars.com Caribbean Adventure this week, a 22 year old math graduate student
from New Jersey with plenty of guts and audacity trounced the competition to win
the $1.5 million first prize and a World Poker Tour bracelet.
Ryan Daut, and for that matter others at the table started the final game of the
tournament well behind another amateur player, Isaac Haxton, who had $9.2
million in chips at his disposal. But the mathematics whizz, who was initially
unsure that he could meet the challenge with his own $2.3 million chip count,
showed both skill and courage to come out tops.
"I'm really excited and all, but it's going to hit me later tonight," Daut said
after taking down the event at Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. "I'm
just going to be overjoyed."
In the final table action, Frank Rusnak and Jonathan Little busted out first,
earning $317 8873 and $ 247 000 respectively. Then Robert Mizrachi and Robert
Ford were sent to the rails for $550 980 and $409 703 leaving Daut and Haxton in
the heads up with $4.92 million and $13.9 million respectively in chips.
But it was the doughty Daut who prevailed, capping a great tournament which
initially saw 937 entrants post the $7 800 buy-in, generating a total prizepool
for the event of $7.3 million. For newcomer Haxton there was a $861 789 second
prize as consolation but much disappointment. He had a dominating chip stack for
most of the action, but it was not enough to crack the main prize.
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