WPT Foxwoods Results

Entrants: 353
Buy-in: $9,700
Prizepool: $3,424,100

1. Cornel Cimpan,USA, $910,058
2. Soheil Shamseddin, USA, $463,332
3. Matthew Stout, USA, $265,710
4. Eric Froehlich, USA, $232,496
5. Curt Kohlberg, USA, $199,283
6. Lee Markholt, USA, $166,069

Cornel Cimpan has rounded off an already impressive year by winning WPT Foxwoods, his second WPT title of the year. In February he won the LA Poker Classic for $1.6m.

Cimpan started the final as chipleader but had a tough final table to negotiate. Both Kohlberg and Shamseddin were previous WPT final tablists and Froehlich was a dual-WSOP bracelet holder.

In the early stages of the final table, Cimpan stayed well away from the action and watched as the two short stacks – Markholt and Kohlberg – were eliminated, followed by Froehlich who lost his race against Shamseddin.

As play got down to three-handed, Cimpan began to open up his play more but took a huge hit when he lost a 3 million pot against Shamseddin.

That hand sparked a series of dramatic hands between Shamseddin and Stout and the two eventually got their chips all-in on a Kd-Kh-4h-3h board where Stout had 5h-6h and Shamseddin had Ks-9c for trips.

The river was an amazing 9h and Stout was left on life support and although he staged a mini-comeback, he eventually exited at the hands of Cimpan.

Cimpan went into heads-up with nearly a 4/1 chip deficit but quickly doubled up when he won the classic race of Queens vs A-K and took the chiplead a few hands later.

The lead would see-saw several times but the two table-talkers from Houston finally got it all-in, Shamseddin finding himself dominated with Ks-Jd against As-Jh.

Cimpan pocketed $910,058 and took his career winnings to $2,947,022. We will have an interview with Cornel in an upcoming issue of PokerPlayer.