James Akenhead Wins Poker Million
The 2010 Full Tilt Poker Million has been won by young British poker player James Akenhead for a prize of half a million dollars.
The final table was no easy lineup. Luke “__FullFlush__” Schwartz started as chipleader with 397,000 chips. Akenhead was close in chips 338,000. High stakes cash-pro and owner of poker training site Cardrunners.com, Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby was in third with 202,000, followed by Dag Martin Mikkelsen with 160,00 chips, Peter Vasiliou and Juha Helppi with around 150k chips apiece. Craig Wakeham was the shortie with 100,000.
After a few knockouts, the heads up was to be fought by Akenhead played and Juha Helppi. Akenhead evened the chipstacks up quickly, and continued his aggression by taking down some good pots. In the last hand of the tournament Akenhead was dealt pocket tens and he was up against Helppi’s sixes. Akenhead opened and Helppi Jammed. The flop came an interesting 5; 4; 3 giving Helppi some more good outs, but the turn and the river sealed the deal for Helppi, rolling off a king and an Ace.
Akenhead’s is running super hot this year, with a grand profit of $1,300,000 from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) this year as well as the World Series of Poker Europe (WOSPE).
Having turned professional only three years ago, Akenhead has already amassed winnings of in excess of $2,600,000.
For his second place, Helppi collected $250,000.
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