Event 14 – $2,000 ‘Heads Up Championship’
Finale
Matt Emmel – Winter Poker Open ‘Heads Up Championship’ Winner
To call this Event 14 ‘Heads Up Championship’ a grind would be an understatement, as two back to back over 12 hour days of poker are tough to deal with. In the end, two players dealt with it best but Matt Emmel did one better than Keith Morrow to claim the final Winter Poker Open title of ‘All-Star Weekend’.
Game 1 tilted to Morrow, after a sick cooler with Emmel finding {Jd}{Jc} to the big stack’s {Ah}{Ac}. Morrow continued his run good into Game 2, as he got off to a hot start and was his stack grow to an over 2:1 advantage. That’s when the grind started, as Emmel chipped away at that big stack, en route to a victory that forced a Game 3 rubber match.
That match played out just like Game 2, with Morrow getting off to a hot start but in the end, it was the heads up specialist that came out on top. That was Emmel, who used a combination of patience and solid play to claim what some would consider one of the most prestigious titles that this WPO series will award.
He’ll also take home $49,664, while Morrow will make $24,832 for second place. That concludes our coverage of the ‘Heads Up Championship’ and the WPO blog will pick up the WPO action tomorrow morning, when Day 1B of the WPT Championship fires up at 11 AM.