Vadim Trincher Flushes Away Amnon Filippi to Win the 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic
April 26, 2009 - 2:53am
The 2009 Foxwoods Poker Classic $10,000 no-limit championship was a showdown between Vadim Trincher of Cliffside Park, NJ and Amnon Filippi of New York City, who battled it out heads-up for more than two hours. In the end, Trincher captured the 2009 championship, winning $731,079, the championship trophy, a commemorative leather jacket, and a $25,500 seat to the World Poker Tour championship in Las Vegas.
Five players remained when the final table began:
SEAT 1: Lenny Cortellino . . . 1,175,000
SEAT 2: Matthew Casterella 1,808,000
SEAT 3: Alex Perelberg . . . . . 200,000
SEAT 4: Vadim Trincher . . . . 2,813,000
SEAT 5: Amnon Filippi . . . . . 1,852,000
More than two hours passed before Perelberg moved all-in with 10s-7s and his last $95,000. He was called by Amnon who held Kh-8s. The flop of 9d-Qs-Js offered plenty of outs but the 4c and Qc finished Alex's run with a $106,007 payday for fifth place.
It took nearly five hours for Matthew Casterella's Ad-Kc to fall to Filippi's pocket sevens.
Fifteen minutes later Filippi eliminated Lenny Cortellino pair of aces with two pair. Then it was heads-up and play continued for about two hours before Trincher bet $800,000 into a flop of 5s-Js-5d. Filippi raised all-in and Trincher called. Filippi held Jc-4d, for two pair, but Trincher's 7s-6s flush draw was completed when the 8s fell on the turn. An inconsequential Ks on the river gave him the championship and nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. Filippi won $409,405 for second place.
While this was a big tournament with a large prize pool, in what may be a sign of the economic times, Foxwoods saw only 259 players entering their $10,000 buy-in event, a drop of 22 percent compared to last year, when 333 players showed up. While there's certainly less discretionary money going around, no one likes to see this kind of decline-a trend that unfortunately bears watching.
EVENT #11 4/5/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM CHAMPIONSHIP
BUY-IN $9,700 + $300
PLAYERS 259
PRIZE POOL $2,436,930
1. Vadim Trincher . . $731,079
2. Amnon Filippi . . . . $409,405
3. Leonard M Cortellino $214,449
4. Matthew Casterella $138,905
5. Alex Perelberg . . . $106,007
6. Joe Raposa . . . . . . . $85,292
7. William Botchis . . . $68,235
8. Lee Markholt . . . . . $54,830
9. Allen Kessler . . . . . . $46,315
EVENT #14 4/5/09
NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
BUY-IN $300 + $40
PLAYERS 183
PRIZE POOL $54,900
1. Jonathan Drane . . . $14,379
2. Donald F Schneider . $7,855
3. Frank Liseno . . . . . . . $3,753