Isreal-born Amir Lehavot is having a tremendous 2011 in poker. He won over $400k in the WPT LA Poker Classic from his fourth place finish. That cash was ten times greater than his previous best cash. Now he has won the $10,000 buy-in Pot Limit Hold'em Championship event at the World Series of Poker. Lehavot won $573,4546 and his first bracelet.
Like several other tournaments so far this year, the PLHE tournament was pushed into a fourth day due to the hard cap of 10 levels of play completed. That didn't seem to dent Lehavot's momentum as he outlast more notable players like Same Stein, Eric Cloutier and McLean Karr.“Finishing first feels so much better,” said Lehavot. “LAPC was a very big score for me, but you always have that bittersweet feeling when it’s not first place, because you feel like an opportunity was lost.”There were 249 top players who came out for the first $10,000 Championship event. Noted pro's Jason DeWitt, Rob Mizrachi and Toby Lewis went out just short of the final table.
At the final table, the larger stacks ran very well against shorter stacks that went all in. When heads-up play began, Lehavot enjoyed a chip advantage of more than two to one over Solomon, courtesy of his late pair of knockouts. The heads-up match lasted more than an hour, but Lehavot’s chip advantage and aggression were simply too much for Solomon to overcome.
Final table results:
1. Amir Lehavot - $573,456
2. Jarred Solomon - $353,460
3. Sam Stein - $264,651
4. Stephen Chidwick - $198,927
5. Tommy Vinas - $150,453
6. Nicolas Levi - $114,525
7. Eric Cloutier - $87,702
8. McLean Karr - $67,596
9. Michael Benvenuti - $52,406
Like several other tournaments so far this year, the PLHE tournament was pushed into a fourth day due to the hard cap of 10 levels of play completed. That didn't seem to dent Lehavot's momentum as he outlast more notable players like Same Stein, Eric Cloutier and McLean Karr.“Finishing first feels so much better,” said Lehavot. “LAPC was a very big score for me, but you always have that bittersweet feeling when it’s not first place, because you feel like an opportunity was lost.”There were 249 top players who came out for the first $10,000 Championship event. Noted pro's Jason DeWitt, Rob Mizrachi and Toby Lewis went out just short of the final table.
At the final table, the larger stacks ran very well against shorter stacks that went all in. When heads-up play began, Lehavot enjoyed a chip advantage of more than two to one over Solomon, courtesy of his late pair of knockouts. The heads-up match lasted more than an hour, but Lehavot’s chip advantage and aggression were simply too much for Solomon to overcome.
Final table results:
1. Amir Lehavot - $573,456
2. Jarred Solomon - $353,460
3. Sam Stein - $264,651
4. Stephen Chidwick - $198,927
5. Tommy Vinas - $150,453
6. Nicolas Levi - $114,525
7. Eric Cloutier - $87,702
8. McLean Karr - $67,596
9. Michael Benvenuti - $52,406
