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Live: $100,000 WPT Super High Roller
Live: $25,500 WPT World Championship
| Earnings | $62,088 |
| Cashes | 2 |
| Final Tables | 1 |
| Titles | 0 |
| Tournaments Played | 15 |
Est. Current Chipcount
Est. Average Chipcount
8,850,000
Current Chipleader
-
Day 1-B
200,600
Day 2
321,000
Day 3
1,094,000
Day 4
6th
Level 29: 40,000-80,000, 10,000 ante
Matt Juttelstad may still have to sweat the result of his grad school admissions interview, but he certainly won't have to sweat how to pay for grad school.
The Florida native came back from a nearly year-long hiatus from poker to play in the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open only because he was going to be in the Miami area for his interview at Florida Atlantic University. He even busted on Day 1A and only re-entered on Day 1B after his interview ended earlier than expected. That decision was a profitable one for Juttelstad. He is now a WPT title holder and has $268,444.
When the Lucky Hearts final table began, it was Gigi Gagne who was in pole postion with a big chip lead over the field and a chance to become the first female winner of a WPT open event. She took a hit to her stack early though when she flopped two pair holding A
4
on an A54
board and got it all-in against Ferrera's A10. Ferrera spiked a ten on the turn to make a better two pair and double, then put another dent in Gagne's stack a few hands later.
Though it was Ferrera who got off to the fastest start at the final table, he was the player who exited first when he aggressively four-bet all-in preflop with Q-J and Juttelstad called with 99. Ferrera flopped a jack and looked in good shape to double, but the river brought the 9 to give Juttelstad a set and the pot, sending Ferrera home in sixth place.
Then it was Juttelstad's turn to hold the chip lead, but he had to weather a storm of rough hands, including short stack Todd Jacobson doubling thru him on two separate occassions. Jacobson came in as the smallest stack, but refused to give up and lasted through 192 hands of action before busting in fifth place when his pocket tens couldn't hold against Sharon Levin's [Abut asd4d] after the two got it all-in preflop.
Busting Jacobson added some chips to Levin's dwindling stack, but with both Juttelstad and Uri Kadosh sitting on big stacks, it was tough for Levin to keep up with the pack. Levin tried to pick up some chips by shoving all-in from the button with A3, but Gagne woke up with a bigger ace, A10, in the big blind. Her hand held and Levin exited in fourth place.
When three-handed play began, the trio of players were closely packed together in the counts, but then Juttelstad took command of the table and started amassing quite a pile of chips. Juttelstad doubled thru Kadosh to take the chip lead, then picked off even more of Kadosh's stack. Juttelstad dealt the final blow to Kadosh when Kadosh reraised all-in preflop holding J8
and Juttelstad called him with a dominant AJ.
Juttelstad's hand held to eliminate Kadosh in third place and give him a more than 3-1 advantage over Gagne going into heads-up play. Juttelstad may have had the chip advantage, but Gagne proved she could play with patience and wouldn't go down without a fight.
Over the course of roughly 30 hands of heads-up action, the two sparred in relatively small pots before the match abruptly screeched to a halt. On the final hand of play, the two limped in preflop and a saw the board fall 532. Gagne bet and Juttelstad called. The turn brought the A and Gagne, who had made the wheel with 4-8, moved all-in. Juttelstad called immediately and showed 46 for a bigger straight, leaving Gagne drawing dead to a chop.
The river 8 ended Gagne's hopes of becoming the first female open event winner and, in a flash, the frenetically paced final table, which plowed through 303 hands of action in less than nine hours, was over.
After the hand concluded and WPT's own Mike Sexton interviewed Juttelstad about his victory, Juttelstad said he needed to "decompress." That is certainly expected when you consider that in for the past four days Juttelstad played some impressive poker, staying near the top of the chip counts from Day 1 all the way to Day 4 en route to a WPT title, a seat in the WPT World Championship, and a quarter of a million dollars.
Juttelstad deserves some time to relax...until he has to start worrying about how that grad school interview went.
Here are the final table results from the Lucky Hearts Poker Open:
1st: Matt Juttelstad - $268,444
2nd: Gigi Gagne - $158,194
3rd: Uri Kadosh - $105,463
4th: Sharon Levin - $73,344
5th: Todd Jacobson - $54,649
6th: Keith Ferrera - $42,185
Level 23: 10,000-20,000, 3,000 ante
Matt Juttelstad raises from middle position to 45,000, Keith Ferrera reraises from the small blind to 120,000, and Juttelstad four-bets it to 305,000.
After nearly two minutes, Ferrera moves all in, and Juttelstad quickly calls with 99. Ferrera shows Q-J, and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
The flop comes J65, and Ferrera takes the lead with a pair of jacks. The turn card is the 8, and the river is --
The 9.
Matt Juttelstad spikes a nine on the river to win the race, and Keith Ferrera is eliminated in sixth place, earning $42,185.
Seat 1. Matt Juttelstad - 4,837,000
Seat 2. Gigi Gagne - 1,758,000
Seat 3. Uri Kadosh - 1,182,000
Seat 4. Keith Ferrera - Out in 6th Place ($42,185)
Seat 5. Sharon Levin - 976,000
Seat 6. Todd Jacobson - 252,000
Level 22: 8,000-16,000, 2,000 ante
Uri Kadosh raises from the cutoff to 40,000, Keith Ferrera reraises from the button to 100,000, and Kadosh calls. The flop comes AJ9, Kadosh checks, Ferrera bets 125,000, and Kadosh calls.
The turn card is the 3, Kadosh checks, Ferrera bets 300,000, and Kadosh calls. There is already more than a million in the pot.
The river card is the K, Kadosh bets 650,000, and Ferrera folds. Uri Kadosh takes a huge pot.
Pot Size: 1,082,000
Seat 1. Matt Juttelstad - 1,964,000
Seat 2. Gigi Gagne - 827,000
Seat 3. Uri Kadosh - 2,179,000
Seat 4. Keith Ferrera - 2,261,000
Seat 5. Sharon Levin - 1,111,000
Seat 6. Todd Jacobson - 507,000
Level 22: 8,000-16,000, 2,000 ante
Matt Juttelstad raises from the cutoff to 35,000, Gigi Gagne calls from the button, and Keith Ferrera calls from the big blind. The flop comes AJ2, it's checked to Gagne who bets 50,000, Ferrera calls, and Juttelstad folds.
The turn card is the 9, Ferrera checks, Gagne bets 50,000, Ferrera raises to 200,000, and Gagne calls.
The river card is the 3, Ferrera bets 600,000, and Gagne thinks for more than a minute before she calls with A-x (possibly A-6) for a pair of aces. But Ferrera turns over A2 to win a huge pot with two pair, aces and deuces.
Seat 1. Matt Juttelstad - 2,003,000
Seat 2. Gigi Gagne - 831,000
Seat 3. Uri Kadosh - 1,657,000
Seat 4. Keith Ferrera - 2,692,000
Seat 5. Sharon Levin - 1,139,000
Seat 6. Todd Jacobson - 527,000
Level 21: 6,000-12,000, 2,000 ante
Keith Ferrera raises from middle position to 35,000, and Gigi Gagne calls from the big blind. The flop comes A54, Gagne bets 50,000, Ferrera raises to 150,000, and Gagne reraises to 350,000.
Ferrera thinks for a bit before he moves all in for 859,000. Gagne asks for an exact count and thinks for a minute before she calls with A4 (two pair). Ferrera shows A10 (pair of aces), and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
The turn card is -- the 10.
Ferrera turns a higher two pair to take the lead, and the 2 on the river clinches the double up for Keith Ferrera.
Seat 1. Matt Juttelstad - 1,625,000
Seat 2. Gigi Gagne - 1,909,000
Seat 3. Uri Kadosh - 1,625,000
Seat 4. Keith Ferrera - 1,881,000
Seat 5. Sharon Levin - 1,202,000
Seat 6. Todd Jacobson - 607,000
Level 21: 6,000-12,000, 2,000 ante
By BJ Nemeth
Ivan Schertzer was down to his final three big blinds with 25 players left, and hoped a photo with Royal Flush Girls Brittany Bell (left) and Jeannie Duffy would give him some luck. Unfortunately, it didn't work, and he was eliminated soon after. At least he survived through the money bubble, earning $8,629.
Justin Zaki (center), who final tabled last season's WPT event here at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino, found himself in a tough spot with 22 players left. Bernard Lubitz (left) raised, Zaki called, and Todd Jacobson (right) moved all in. Lubitz called all in, and Zaki faced a decision for all his chips.
Zaki eventually folded, claiming to have "two black jacks." Lubitz turned over QQ, and Jacobson showed AK. The board came AJ101010, and Jacobson paired his ace on the flop to win with a full house, eliminating Lubitz in 22nd place.
Even though other players assured Zaki he made the correct play by folding, if he had called, he would have won the pot and more than doubled up. Unfortunately, Zaki was eliminated a few minutes later in 21st place.
With 13 players remaining, Keith Ferrera (far left) three-bet all in after a flop of Q109 against Todd Jacobson (far right). Ferrera had the lead with 1010 (middle set), while Jacobson had QJ for top pair with an open-ended straight draw.
The turn was the A, and both players watch as the dealer puts out the 8 on the river -- giving Jacobson a queen-high straight to win the pot and double up in chips.
With 11 players remaining, Alex Ivanov (far left) raised, Gigi Gagne (center left) reraised, and Keith Ferrera (foreground right) four-bet it to 200,000. Ivanov moved all in for nearly 400,000, and Gagne tanked for a while before she called. Ferrera took a minute before he called behind -- 60 big blinds in the pot before the flop.
The flop came Q93, Ferrera checked, Gagne moved all in, and Ferrera folded. Ivanov showed JJ, but Gagne turned over KQ for a pair of queens. (She's pointing to her queen in the photo.)
The turn was the 5, the river was the 6, and Gigi Gagne won a huge pot to take a massive chip lead into the final 10-handed table.
Gigi Gagne smiles and poses with her massive pile of chips before moving to the final 10-handed table. With nearly 2.6 million in chips, she had 80 big blinds more than anyone else.
The final 10 players, in seat order: (1) Matt Juttelstad, (2) Victor Heffesse, (3) Gigi Gagne, (4) Uri Kadosh (away from his seat), (5) Keith Ferrera, (6) Sharon Levin, (7) Omar Sider, (8) Todd Jacobson, (9) Hal Klein, and (10) Harrison Gimbel.
While Matt Juttelstad didn't go wire-to-wire as chipleader, he was never very far from the top of the leaderboard after winning a big pot late on Day 1B. Juttelstad was the overall chipleader heading into Day 2, Day 3, and is second in chips going to the final table.
Juttelstad stopped playing poker after Black Friday hit on April 15, 2011, and this is his first major event since. You wouldn't know he was out of practice by the poise and the polish that he's shown this week.
With 10 players left, Harrison Gimbel (left) doubled thru Victor Heffesse (far right). All in preflop, Gimbel's 1010 flopped an unnecessary set against Heffesse's 99 on a board of 10628K.
One hand after doubling up Harrison Gimbel, Victor Heffesse (seated, top left), got it all in preflop with 77 against the QQ of Sharon Levin (second from right). The board came 1062Q6, and Levin won the pot with a set of queens to eliminate Heffesse in 10th place. Uri Kadosh (standing) offers a handshake of congradudolence to Heffesse.
With seven players remaining and less than 150,000 in the pot on a board of KQ27, chipleader Gigi Gagne (left) moves all in, easily covering Keith Ferrera (right), even though he has more than a million in chips himself.
Gagne, who was still busy stacking chips from a previous pot, moved all in as if it had been an afterthought. Ferrera could only smile to himself as he folded.
Short stack Omar Sider (standing, right) moved all in after a preflop raise from Sharon Levin (seated, center). Levin tanked for about a minute before he folded.
Five hands later, Sider got it all in preflop with JJ against the AK of Matt Juttelstad. The board came A8867, and Juttelstad paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Omar Sider in 7th place on the WPT Final Table bubble.
The final seven players fill out their WPT bio sheets before getting bagging and tagging their chips.
Here are the official chip counts for the WPT Final Table:
Seat 1. Matt Juttelstad - 1,651,000 (138 BBs)
Seat 2. Gigi Gagne - 2,708,000 (226 BBs)
Seat 3. Uri Kadosh - 1,470,000 (123 BBs)
Seat 4. Keith Ferrera - 1,094,000 (91 BBs)
Seat 5. Sharon Levin - 1,208,000 (101 BBs)
Seat 6. Todd Jacobson - 718,000 (60 BBs)
The WPT Final Table begins Tuesday (Valentine's Day) at 1:00 pm ET, and the action will be streamed nearly live -- with holecards -- on a 30-minute delay, and Mike Sexton, Tony Dunst, and Dan O'Brien will be on hand to provide commentary.
As always, all of the hand-for-hand action will be posted here in the WPT Live Updates, with every check, bet, call, raise, and fold from the first hand until the final river card.
Level 21: 6,000-12,000, 2,000 ante
The players are done for the day and have the night off to celebrate. They will be back in action for the livestreaming final table tomorrow though, starting at 1pm ET.
Mike Sexton, Tony Dunst, and Dan O'Brien will be offering commentary on all the action, which is being broadcast on a 30 minute delay with hole cards, starting at approximately 1:30pm.
Here are the chip counts and seat assignments for Tuesday's final table:
Seat 1: Matt Juttelstad - 1,651,000 (138 BBs)
Seat 2: Gigi Gagne - 2,708,000 (226 BBs)
Seat 3: Uri Kadosh - 1,470,000 (123 BBs)
Seat 4: Keith Ferrera - 1,094,000 (91 BBs)
Seat 5: Sharon Levin - 1,208,000 (101 BBs)
Seat 6: Todd Jacobson - 718,000 (60 BBs)
Level 20: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante
Hand #14 - Uri Kadosh raises from middle position to 34,000, Keith Ferrera reraises from middle position to 65,000, and Matt Juttelstad cold four-bets from the big blind to 155,000.
Kadosh folds, and Ferrera moves all in. Juttelstad quickly folds, and Ferrera shows 75 as he collects the pot.
Hand #15 - Keith Ferrera raises from early position to 25,000, Hal Klein moves all in from the button for 89,000, and Ferrera calls with A8. Klein turns over KJ, and he'll need to improve to stay alive.
The board comes A6297, and Ferrera wins the pot with a pair of aces to eliminate Hal Klein in eighth place.
Keith Ferrera - 1,085,000
Hal Klein - Out in 8th Place ($23,969)
Level 20: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante
Alex Ivanov raises to 25,000 from middle position and Gigi Gagne reraises to 50,000 behind him. Keith Ferrera is in the small blind and four-bets to 200,000 total.
Ivanov quickly moves all-in for 393,000 total. Gagne gets an exact count and thinks a minute before she says, "You know what? Let's do it. Rock and roll," and calls.
Ferrera is next to act and takes a minute before calling as well. Ivanov is all-in for the main pot, but there is still action pending when the flop comes Q93. Ferrera checks and Gagne moves all-in. Ferrera quickly folds.
Gagne turns over KQ for top pair. Ivanov holds JJ. The 5 on the turn gives both players a flush draw, but Gagne has the bigger flush draw. The river 6 is the end of the line for Ivanov and Gagne rakes in the gigantic pot to take a substantial chip lead going in to the unofficial final table.
Gigi Gagne - 2,550,000 (255 BBs)
Keith Ferrera - 715,000 (72 BBs)
Alex Ivanov - eliminated in 11th place ($13,423)
Level 20: 5,000-10,000, 1,000 ante
Photo: Keith Ferrara (left) and Todd Jacobson (right) watch as the dealer puts an eight out on the river to give Jacobson a straight.
Keith Ferrera raises to 25,000 on the button and Todd Jacobson calls from the big blind.
The flop comes Q109 and Jacobson checks. Ferrera bets 25,000 and Jacobson check-raises to 81,000 total. Ferrera asks Jacobson how much he has behind and Jacobson silently counts out his 233,000 remaining chips.
After some though, Ferrera grabs a stack of 25,000 chips and reraises enough to put Jacobson all-in. Jacobson calls and lets out a sigh when Ferrera shows 1010 for middle set.
Jacobson does have several outs with QJ for top pair with an open-ended straight draw. The A on the turn is no help to Jacobson, but the 8 on the river makes his straight and gives him the pot.
Todd Jacobson - 690,000 (69 BBs)
Keith Ferrera - 1,200,000 (120 BBs)
