Harold Angle uncontrolled at the 2010 WSOP Senior Championship
2010-07-29
Harold Angle made his career’s first World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet victory by winning the $1,000 buy-in Seniors No-Limit Hold’em World Championship at the 2010 WSOP. At the age of 78 he further proved the statement that one is never too old to be the poker champion. He won a huge amount of $ 487,994 by defeating Micheal Minetti who had to contend with the second place. The event witnessed an unprecedented number of entries at 3,142 with net prize money of $ 2,827,800. The number of paid places for the event which was held at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, Nevada were 324. The way the whole event went by can be summarized in the following words.
The 3,142 entries and the net prize money were records of sought on the first day. There were a number of well known players in the list and at the end of the day there were only 450 players left. Berry Johnston and Tom Schneider were near the top of the leader board. At the end of the second day there were 26 players left instead of the expected nine since the play time had already been far exceeded.
The way Angle had played on the first day (he was down to just 400 in chips), his victory on the last day was highly improbable but he managed to make it to the final table on the last day.
The final table had nine players with none of them having ever won a WSOP gold bracelet before and all of them being residents of United States of America.
Angel had a 7-1 chip lead over his last rival Michael Minetti when heads up play began as Minetti played tough while the duel lasted for 45 minutes. The Massive chip disadvantage that he was facing was huge and he could not overcome it. When Angle was dealt Ks Js against Minetti’s Jh Jc, the final hand of the tournament came. Angle managed to hit a king on the flop as Minetti had had an important advantage. Kc 9d 9c 8c 5h ran on the final board to give Angel his first WSOP victory.
Minetti got a prize of $ 301,839 while John Woo who had finished at the third place won a prize of $ 213,612. Eric Stemp finishing at the fourth place won $ 154,624 while Daniel Camillo got $ 113,225 for finishing fifth. Preston Derden collected $ 83,782 for the sixth spot while the seventh place finisher Ernest Ward pocketed $62,833. Carlos Pianelli at the eight spot won $ 47, 591 and Jay Hong at the ninth place had to manage with $ 36,450.
The eldest of the nine players at the final table, Harold Angle retired after working as a sales executive for a major show manufacturer. He has been married for 60 years and has 3 children, 10 grand children and 6 great grand children.
It was his first cash in at a WSOP event and he thought that the experience was enjoyable. He said that patience, knowledge of the game and luck are the three most important things that one needs to have for winning a game.
He hoped that he would be able to participate in the coming years as well.
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Harold Angle uncontrolled at the 2010 WSOP Senior Championship News
