FIRST TIME LUCKY (Update)
3 July 2009
Software engineer hits the winning streak in
his first major tournament
30-year-old software engineer Tony Veckey from Chicago
came to Vegas this year to take his first crack at a
major live tournament, and it paid off bigtime as he won
his first winner's bracelet and the main prize of $673
279 for his $1 500 buy-in to Event 54 - the No-Limit
Hold’em competition.
With an entry field of 2 818
and a prize pool of $3 846 570, the event took four days
to unfold, with the final table paying out as follows:
1. Tony Veckey — $673 276
2. Jason Wheeler — $418
122
3. Joseph Chaplin — $ 276 029
4. Sergey Konkin
— $195 213
5. Andrew Malott — $147 131
6.
Christopher Bonita — $117 358
7. Christopher DeMaci —
$98 933
8. David Jaoui — $87 855
9. Miha Remic —
$81 970
Big names who failed to make the final
table included Jonathan Little, Alexander Kostritsyn,
Liv Boeree and J.C. Tran, although Carlos Mortensen,
Amit Makhija, Hevad Khan and Theo Tran were amomg the
just short of 300 players who managed to cash in the
event.
Holding just over a million in chips,
Veckey was around the middle of the chip counts when
final table play started after around 10 hours of Day 4
action, and he played a low profile but clever game
until the table reached the four-handed stage, when he
shrewdly moved in and bundled out two players to set the
heads up with Jason Wheeler, a pro from California who
has 5 career cashes and total winnings of $464 951 to
his credit.
Despite going into heads up play
trailing Wheeler 2 to 1 on chip counts, Veckey took less
than an hour to dismiss his opponent with a second
placing $418 122 paycheck - his biggest career cash to
date.
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