DOUGHTY DAUT TAKES THE CARIBBEAN ONLINE POKER POT
22 year old grad student has a $1.5 million boost for his banking
Starting at a deep chip count disadvantage at the 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 $1.535 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.
22 year old grad student has a $1.5 million boost for his banking
Starting at a deep chip count disadvantage at the 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 $1.535 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.
