Vincent van der Fluit Wins $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Event
Wednesday, Vincent van der Fluit proudly walked away from WSOP’s Pot Limit Omaha event ($1,500 buy-in) as the 1st Dutch player to win a bracelet this year at the tournament. He bested a field of 970 players in the three day event which commenced on Monday. Fluit, who is one of the well-known players in the online poker world, won $265,211 in the event.
To his credit, he has a title from the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and has served as a trainer at DeucesCracked. With his win at the WSOP, Fluit has made a place for himself in the offline poker circuit too. According to Fluit, his win is a bit surprising – last year, despite playing in several events, the closest he got to winning was when he made it to the final fifteen at an event. But this year, he won the bracelet in the first event he entered.
Three-Handed Play – Fluit Against Wade and Tristan
The final table at this event did not have as many top professional players as did other events. However, those in the event were fierce competitors, who did not give up their place at the table without a fight. In the three-handed play, Fluit was up against Charles Tonne and Tristan Wade, who is a well-recognized face in offline tournaments.
When he made it to the final table, there was a strong likelihood that Wade, who was looking to make his second WSOP bracelet, would win. Though Tonne does not have a bracelet from the WSOP, he has a ring from having won a WSOP Circuit event which he played in Indiana. One and a half hours into the final table, the game had been brought down to just three players. A reason the other players got eliminated this quickly, was that many of them became short-stacks quite quickly.
Knock-Outs
The first elimination was of David Schnettler, who went all-in on a J-10-9 flop with A-K-J-5. When the turn and river failed to help him, he lost to Alex Dovzhenko, who had a nut straight with K-Q-T-5. The next player sent to the rail, Calvin Anderson, too fell at Dovzhenko’s hands. In the hand that Anderson had to leave the table, he drew a jack for a full house on the turn (the river did not help), while Dovzhenko landed a full house. Tonne was the next to leave after he faced-off against Brian Garbe.
The first player Fluit knocked out of the game was Rodney Brown. Following a few pre-flop raises, the flop brought J-7-5, which encouraged Brown to go all-in. Fluit got a full house on the turn, while the river failed to improve Brown’s hand. This hand helped Fluit take the top spot in chip count.
Another Omaha poker event that took place at the 2012 WSOP was Omaha Hi-Lo. Read about the event here.