Martin Jacobson win the main event of the WSOP 2014

Yesterday, the Swedish Martin Jacobson won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014. Although Jacobson had already nearly 5 M$ in scholarships to this day, he had never won big tournament. Today it is done!

With his victory, Jacobson gets paid, either one of the larger purse attributed to this tournament (with Jamie Gold who had pocketed 12 M$ in 2006).

On the final hand, Jacobson is in all (170 M) with a pair of 10s. Felix Stephensen, shortstack (28M) calls with A95. The 3-9-T flop removed pretty much all hope Felix out. The turn and river fell brick-brick and Jacobson became the new champion of the world 2014.

Other positions have been paid as follows:

1 Martin Jacobson (SE) 10,000,000$
2 Felix Stephensen (NO) 5,145,968$
3 Jorryt van Hoof (NL) 3,806,402$
4 William Tonking (US) 2,848,833$
5 Billy Pappas (US) 2,143,174$
6 Andoni Larrabe (ES) 1,622,080$
7 Dan Sindelar (US) 1,235,862$
8 Bruno Politano (BR) $947,077
9 Mark Newhouse (US) $ 730,725

Congratulations to the winners!

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