Mexico's Fernando Galvan Wins 2017 WSOPC Planet Hollywood

admin, November 22, 2017 3:15 pm

Mexico's Fernando Galvan Wins 2017 WSOPC Planet Hollywood Last weekend, the WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood Main Event took place in Las Vegas, with the $1,675 buy-in tournament attracting 845 players to create a prize pool worth $1,267,500. Three days later, and Mexico’s Fernando Galvan managed to overcome the huge field, including Corey Hochman heads-up, to claim a gold ring, as well as a first place prize of $247,160.
The WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood attracted a number of notable pros, and amongst those finishing in a top 90 money spot was Kevin Eyster in 85th ($2,865), Sorel Mizzi in 48th ($4,043), Eric Baldwin in 24th ($8,911), Ankush Mandavia in 19th ($10,571), and Bryan Devonshire in 16th ($12,688).
Fernando Galvan subsequently entered the final table as the chip leader, but soon found himself in white water after losing a huge A-K versus Q-Q flip which reduced his stack down to just 16 big blinds. Later, Galvan (Kh-Kc) made a great call against Ali Imsirovic (10d-10c), who made a huge bluff on an Ah-Qh-5d-7d-Jh board, propelling Galvan into the lead once more.
Galvan followed up by eliminating Mark Ioli in 7th, Ali Imsirovic in 4th, and Chris Tham in 3rd to get heads-up play underway against Corey Hochman for the title.
At this stage, Galvan enjoyed a massive 7-1 chip lead over his remaining opponent, who was sitting on a 20bb stack, and nine hands later the deciding hand was played. In the hand in question, Galvan (Q-Q) limped in preflop, before receiving an all-in shove from Hochman with A-3. The dealer then laid out a K-5-3-7-4 board to consign Hochman to a runner-up finish worth $152,734, in the process taking his career earnings past the $1 million mark.
Meanwhile, Fernando Galvan collected $247,160 for his impressive victory, representing his biggest score to date, and boosting his live tournament winnings to $452,426.
Final Table Results:
1: Fernando Galvan $247,160
2: Corey Hochman $152,734
3: Chris Tham $112,503
4: Ali Imsirovic $83,959
5: Bruce Kramer $63,476
6: Melanie Banfield $48,609
7: Mark Ioli $37,695
8: Daniel Elmore $29,596
9: Neil Scott $23,525

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