WSOP Event #56: Matt Hawrilenko Victorious, Thorsten77 8th

A total of 928 players registered for Event #56, the $5,000 No Limit Six-Handed event and after two days of play, 16 seats were still taken. One of those seats belonged to PokerStrategist Thorsten Thorsten77 Schaefer, who came to the tables with the 6th highest chip stack. At the end of the day, our member managed to cash in a little over $100,000.
Thorsten77 had a very nice run throughout Day 3, and at one point he even became the chip leader.
However, things did not work out and he was eventually eliminated in 8th place, thus missing a 7-seat final table.

One hand that crippled his stack was K-J. Josh Brikis went all-in preflop with and Thorsten77 made the call. Unfortunately for our PokerStrategist, the board showed and Brikis doubled up to 880,000.

The final hand that sent our member to the rail saw him getting versus Faraz Jaka. Thorsten77 raised it pre-flop to 2.5 BB and Jaka made the call. Flop came and both players checked. The turn brought the and Jaka bet 175,000 in a 190,000 pot, which Schaefer called after thinking for a while.

When the river showed the , Jaka made another pot-size bet and Schaefer went all-in. However, Jaka showed for the nut flush and our player was out in 8th place.

Nevertheless, Thorsten77's 8th place finish got him a very nice cash prize - $100,230 - so we can congratulate him for this great achievement at the WSOP!