Todd Oakley put on a bit of a dominating performance tonight. He was playing one of the big stacks for more of the final table, with some competition early on from Ismar Delic-Ibukic and Essam Saadeddine, while KJ have him some trouble later in the FT with a big stack.
Oakley was able to ride his big stack through most of th final table, and when they were four ways he had almost twice the stack of his closest rival, KJ. That lead held through the final hand.
When play got down to 7 remaining, they moved to the poker room to finish it out, and that seemed to spur the action a bit as it took less than an hour after the move to finish the game. In the final confrontation, KJ flopped a set of jacks with Oakley on nothing but a pair of deuces and backdoor draws. The setup jack was one of the backdoor cards and it proved to be a killer for KJ as Oakley ran out to Broadway with the queen-ten he needed to go with the ace-king in his hand and the jack on the flop.
This was Oakley’s third live win. He got his first back in 2016, but #2 came earlier this year with a win in the $600 Mid Grande at Ace Casino Airport in March, and this will be his fourth-biggest live score.
