Tournament Details

For five years, Hollywood joins the poker community for the most exciting tournament that poker has to offer – the WPT Celebrity Invitational at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. This time, 420 players braved the L.A. freeways to play in the freeroll with a $200,000 prize pool and the most fun to be had at a poker tournament.

The players and chip counts at the final table were as follows:

Seat 1: Glenn Morshower Chips: 855,000
Seat 2: “Miami” John Cernuto Chips: 615,000
Seat 3: Nick Cassavetes Chips: 625,000
Seat 4: David Mosikian Chips: 160,000
Seat 5: Adam Weinraub Chips: 565,000
Seat 6: Tim West Chips: 1,115,000

Play began with 8,000/16,000 blinds and a 2,000 ante.

The first hand of the final table found Nick Cassavetes raising to 50,000 with AsJs and Glenn Morshower calling with Ad5d. After a flop of 9c8d6c, Cassavetes bet 95,000, and Morshower folded.

Soon after, chip leader Tim West raised to 42,000 with pocket K’s, and Adam Weinraub merely called with pocket A’s. The flop came 9h7h5c. Weinraub checked, West bet 105,000, Weinraub raised 200,000 more, West reraised All-In, and Weinraub called and was covered by West in chips. The turn and river were 7s and 8h, and Weinraub doubled up to become the new chip leader at the final table.

David Mosikian was short-stacked from the beginning and decided to take a stand with As10c. After Morshower limped with AcJd and John Cernuto did the same with pocket 8’s, Mosikian raised All-In. Both opponents called. The flop was Jh10s10h, and Morshower and Cernuto checked. When the turn came 7s, Morshower moved All-In, and Cernuto folded. The river was 10d to give Mosikian quad 10’s, and he tripled up.

Cernuto and West became the dominating forces at the table for the new few hands, and Mosikian continued to make good efforts and double up when necessary.

Several hands later, Morshower limped in the small blind with 9c7s, and Cernuto checked his big blind with Kd5s. They checked the flop of 9d5h2d, but when a Kh came on the turn, Morshower checked his pair of 9’s, but Cernuto bet 230,000 with his two pair, which was enough to put Morshower All-In. Morshower called, and the Ad river failed to help. Glenn Morshower was eliminated in 6th place.

Weinraub limped in with KdJc, and Cassavetes called with 10c7h. The flop produced a KhKs2d, and Weinraub played it cool with a 60,000 bet. Cassavetes fell into the trap and raised All-In for 450,000, and Weinraub instantly called. The turn and river were 4s and Ah, and Cassavetes was eliminated in 5th place.

When Mosikian moved All-In with his small stack of 160,000 with KsQs, Weinraub called with Ac7h. The board came Jc8c8h10s6h, Weinraub became the chip leader, and Mosikian was sent home in 4th place.

From that point forward, Weinraub seemed to control the table. He took a big pot from Cernuto, then played aggressively against West to take another. West took the next pot from Weinraub to retake the chip lead back again, though he lost it when Cernuto doubled through him.

Then, Weinraub looked down at KhQd and raised to 300,000. West reraised All-In for his last 510,000, and Weinraub called. The board showed AdKdQh8d10h, and West was given the boot in 3rd place.

Going into heads-up action, the chip counts were as follows:

Adam Weinraub 2,875,000
John Cernuto 1,060,000

In the first hand, Weinraub came out firing by raising to 250,000 with only 7s5h. Cernuto folded his 7c3h.

Cernuto tried to take the next one with 10d6s by raising to 300,000, but Weinraub reraised All-In with As8s, and Cernuto folded.

Next, Weinraub limped in with 10c4h, and Cernuto raised All-In with Qh3d, causing Weinraub to fold.

Finally, Cernuto raised All-In for his last 740,000 with QhJc, and Weinraub called with AhJh. The flop came 8s6h5d2c9s, and that was that.

Miami John Cernuto finished in 2nd place. And Adam Weinraub took the first place title! With prize money awarded to him of $125,000, he promptly announced that he would be donating $20,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the organization to which he donated through the silent auction to win his seat into the Invitational.

Well done, Adam!