UK star finishes fourth in PLO
Sam Trickett has had the Midas touch in 2011. But his unbelievable run hit a roadblock this week when the Brit prodigy narrowly missed out on his first ever bracelet in the €5,300 WSOPE PLO event.
Trickett went into the final table clutching a mammoth 50bb chip lead, and was looking to add a first bracelet to more than $3m in winnings so far this year. But a cold deck allowed the chasing pack to ravage Trickett’s lead and Retford’s finest had to settle for fourth place and €77,642.
‘Place 4th, couldn’t of (sic) really done anything differently!’ Trickett wrote on Facebook soon after. ‘Wiffed lots of flops in 3bet pots and got 6outered in a huge pot :(’
With Trickett gone, the bracelet went to 25-year-old Steve Billirakis, who followed up on his 2007 $5k Mixed Hold’em Championship victory with his second bracelet in five years.
‘I am happy that I did this,’ said Billirakis afterwards. ‘Five years went by without winning, which is a long time. Back then, you don’t know as much and you think you are going to win the very next tournament that you play. But then as you go on you realize it’s tough and you even begin to wonder if you are ever going to win one of these again.’
Congratulations to Billirakis, and for Trickett, well there’s still the small matter of next month’s Partouche Poker Tour main event. Check back with PokerPlayer to see how he gets on…
Here’s how the €5,300 WSOPE PLO finished:
1. Steve Billirakis €238,140
2. Michele Di Lauro €147,171
3. Ramzi Jelassi €105,937
4. Sam Trickett €77,642
5. Jerome Bradpiece €57,912
6. Konstantin Uspenskiy €43,950
7. Erich Kollmann €33,922
8. Sam Chartier €26,610
9. Eoghan O’Dea €21,221
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