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Eric Baldwin |
Win Pre-Flop | Win Post-Flop | Win Post-Turn | |
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Starting Stack: 1,580,000 
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28.01 % | 15.96 % | 6.82 % | |
Brandon Hall |
Win Pre-Flop | Win Post-Flop | Win Post-Turn | |
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Starting Stack: 1,390,000 
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71.61 % | 84.04 % | 93.18 % | Winner! |
Outcome
Final table, four-handed, with the blinds at 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante, Hall raised to 90,000 from the button, Baldwin reraised to 275,000 from the small blind, Hall went all in, Baldwin called.
Analysis
Baldwin had been aggressively three-betting quite often at the final table, sometimes with marginal hands, so these metagame considerations might have come into play when he considered his options after Hall shoved. Normally his A-10 would fare quite well against a button raise in an aggressive four-handed game, but Hall had demonstrated some very solid and patient play throughout the tournament. Baldwin knew his hand was probably ahead of that which Hall credited him, but what did Hall's four-bet indicate about Hall's hand? In the end, Baldwin called and discovered he was dominated by Hall's pocket jacks. Baldwin was unable to score an ace on the board, and he was crippled, left with a stack of under five big blinds. Baldwin was nearly able to regroup, amassing a stack of nearly 700,000 before Mizrachi eliminated him with a lucky A-7 versus Baldwin'a A-Q. Baldwin earned $126,710 for his fourth-place finish and as of this writing occupies the No. 1 position of Cardplayer.com's 2009 Player of the Year race.