Sheglov Stages Epic Comeback at the 888poker Main Event Title

Ukraine’s “Sheglov” It’s understandable if they are down in the dumps after limping to the final table for the $300,000. 888poker Mystery Bounty Main Event only with a 10 big blind stack. When there is a lot of money on the line, a player with a small stack will be at a disadvantage.

Sheglov, the last player standing less than 2.5 hours later, had completed an epic comeback and won the title, along with $34,836 of prize money.

The final table chip counts for the Mystery Bounty Festival Main event Final Table, $300,000.

Romania’s MMDpoker1 had a final-table to forget. They were at the top after Day 1 was completed. Top of the pile as the final table begins its action. MMDpoker1 completed a disappointing trio of firsts, as the first finalist eliminated.

Early in the final day, there were warning signs that “MMDpoker1’s” day was not going well. “kellerassel0”, with pocket threes, limped into the small blind for 60,000. “MMDpoker1”, with king-ten-of hearts in the big, raised to 180,000 before calling “kellerassel0’s” shove of 1,760.376. “kellerassel0”, who had a ten on the flop, appeared to have extended his lead. However, running cards helped “kellerassel0”, who improved to an unlikely victory. Wheel straight.

“MMDpoker1′” lost another chunk of its stack when tangling with 888poker Stream Team Members Leo “KaizenStyle” Jokura“Sheglov”, doubled them through with pocket threes versus queen-jack.

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After the “Sheglov double-up”, the last of “MMDpoker1’s” chips was placed in the middle of the hand. “kellerassel0”, who was under the gun with an ace-queen, raised to 126,000. “MMDpoker1”, who was sitting next to him, called with a queen-six in hearts. The flop came five-nine-jack. Both players checked, resulting in a queen landing on turn. It was obvious that the former leader of the chips would go all-in when the pot was at 402,000 and MMDpoker1 had only 880.303 behind. This is exactly what happened. They busted when they didn’t find a six either on the river or turn.

Jokura was the second-place finisher when “MMDpoker1”, who had been in the lead, busted. Jokura, who had pocket queens in late position, called “Sheglov’s” 2,984,550 push from the small blind. Sheglov held ace-four diamonds. Jokura was left with only one hand because “Sheglov’s” play paid off. An ace appeared on flop and Jokura had to draw because another player folded a queen. Unsurprisingly, Jokura was busted in the seventh position, and “Sheglov”, who had risen to the top of the chips counts, won the hand.

888poker regular, “CPU0r”, crashed out in sixth place for a prize total of $21,061. He had collected a $12,000 bounty on Day 2. They made their last move in the Mystery Bounty Festival’s Main Event by three-betting all-in with king-ten spades from the small blind, after “kellerassel0”, had raised to 240,000 at the cutoff. “Kellerassel0 called with ace and king which held to reduce player count by one.

“AnitaKiraly” was eliminated prematurely, and the final five were reduced to four. After paying blinds, “AnitaKiraly”, was left with less that 1.5 big blinds. Even though they doubled their stack of pocket tens with pocket tens and still lost, the situation was not improving. The last of the chips they had were king-queens, which lost against the ace-10 of “kellerassel0”.

“kellerassel0”, the chip leader, now has 8.7 million chips. Their nearest rival is behind 3.7 millions. You’d think the chip leader could easily make it to the heads-up round, but that was not the case.

After seeing their stack shrink a bit, and then losing a large pot with six-five clubs versus pocket aces from “QdEqTeCalaz,” kellerassel0 four-bet for 18 big blinds in a blind battle against “doga10.” “doga10,” with the dominant ace-king, snapped called. Their king kicker played, and she was done with “kellerassel0.”

“QdEqTeCalaz”, who had been eliminated, advanced to heads-up in the $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Festival’s Main Event. With blinds of 100,000/200,000/25,000a, “QdEqTeCalaz” min-raised with ace-ten, “doga10” three-bet to 1,000,000 with pocket kings, only for “QdEqTeCalaz” to jam for 4,170,832 in total. “doga10”, a caller, faded out three hands and sent QdEqTeCalaz home in third place.

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“Sheglov”, however, had already shown that they were capable of fighting back from the brink. The chip lead changed several times during the hour long one-on-one match, but “Sheglov’s” started to gain a lead. By the final hand, “Sheglov’s” advantage was more than eight-to-one.

“Sheglov”, who had raised to 700,000 in the final hand, called “doga10’s” 1,667.339. “Sheglov”, who was facing king-four, turned over ace jack. “Sheglov’s” trips were rewarded by two jacks on flop. A turn eight left “doga10”, drawing dead.

“Sheglov”, winner of the championship, won $34,836.

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