It took more than 12 hours to settle the score in Event #4 Mix and almost four of those hours were spent at the final table. In the end, Daniel Hicks took down the game after playing the big stack for most of the final table.
Hicks dominated through the early part of the FT with things really only evening out more when they got three-handed. Hicks retained the lead through most of it, and it was only when he got heads-up with Benny Sarnelli that things got really close.
In the final hand, the two players were nearly even when the stacks were counted down with Hicks on about 15k more than Sarnelli. Sarnelli got his money in on the flop holding the top three cards of a straight to the five-four on the flop. Hicks was on ace-queen-queen-ten and Sarnelli bricked out his straight draw. He rivered a pair of tens, but it wasn’t enough to overtake the queens for Hicks.
This was Hicks first win in just his third recorded live cash. He bagged 10th place in this Mixed game in the summer PPT as well as 33rd in a PLO Bounty game at the last WSOP-C in Calgary, but today’s win dwarfs both of those scores.
