The inaugural PokerStars Ladies’s Summer season Pageant has come to an in depth, crowning its champion within the £400 Principal Occasion.
The occasion attracted a complete of 193, together with notables comparable to Shiina Okamoto, Marle Spragg and Caitlin Comeskey, however it was one other large title who took down the title and £22,200.1
Two-time U.S. Ladies’s Chess champion, writer, and commentator Jennifer Shahade defeated Claire Taylor heads-up to win the most important No-Restrict Maintain’em match prize of her profession.
PokerStars Ladies’s Summer season Pageant Ultimate Desk Outcomes
Ultimate Desk Recap
Twenty-two gamers returned for the ultimate day of the PokerStars Ladies’s Summer season Pageant Principal Occasion, with Morgane Fevrier beginning out as chip chief. Jennifer Shahade, the final remaining PokerStars Ambassador within the area, wasted no time, doubling via Fevrier on the very first hand of play.
Shahade’s path to the title was removed from clean. Though she held the chip lead when the ultimate desk of 9 was set, she was compelled to fold journey aces in opposition to Valerie Morris, who had flopped the nut straight. That hand allowed Lynne Beaumont to take excessive spot, and with the blinds rising, the lead steadily modified arms. Each Claire Taylor and Akiko Ota loved their very own spells on the prime of the counts.
Shahade’s momentum elevated when she eradicated Saara Benlamine in a dramatic hand. Holding king-queen in opposition to Benlamine’s ace-queen, Shahade spiked a king on the flop to safe the primary knockout after greater than 90 minutes of cagey nine-handed play. She instantly adopted up with one other elimination, sending Morris to the rail after her pocket eights held in opposition to pocket sevens.
Miriam Balen quickly fell in seventh when her queens have been cracked by Taylor’s kings, propelling Taylor into the lead forward of Shahade and Beaumont. Ota, in the meantime, battled again from a brief stack to ship start-of-day chief Fevrier dwelling in sixth. However Ota’s run resulted in fifth, courtesy of Shahade. Eire’s Tanya Masters bowed out in fourth, with Taylor reclaiming the lead three-handed.
Shahade responded strongly, chipping away as Beaumont’s stack dwindled. Beaumont ultimately shoved her final seven large blinds into Shahade and was eradicated in third, leaving Shahade with a close to 3:1 lead over Taylor heads-up.
Stacks remained regular via the early exchanges, however Shahade steadily wore her opponent down earlier than delivering the ultimate blow. She shoved with king-four and was known as by Taylor’s pocket sevens. The board ran out A♠10♠5♥J♦Q♣, giving Shahade a rivered straight to clinch victory.
With that, Shahade captured the title, the £22,200 prime prize, and the distinction of being topped champion of the PokerStars Ladies’s Summer season Pageant Principal Occasion.
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Will Shillibier
Managing Editor
