It would be one he wouldn’t relinquish.Īuvil then eliminated Gregg Bloom in third place after flopping the latest of several sets at the final table and holding on versus Bloom’s open-ended straight draw. Medrano was eliminated shortly after in fifth place.Īuvil was down to three big blinds four-handed but managed to spin his stack back into contention to the point that after Paul Chamberlain’s elimination in fourth place, he was able to double-up through his eventual heads-up opponent, Kaepernick, to regain the chip lead. It wasn’t until Auvil’s kings held against Miguel Medrano’s ace-jack that another player was truly short-stacked. Auvil held to score a massive double-up, while Davis was left short and eliminated shortly after.ĭavid Phillips was the next to fall in seventh, followed by Purdy in sixth before the eliminations slowed considerably. The eventual champion had flopped a set of nines and happily called. He then jammed two times the size of the pot on a ten-high flop with Auvil behind him. Once play resumed, the elimination of Bogdan Zavu in ninth place also saw a massive shift in the fortunes of the two chip leaders at that point, leading to the elimination of Chris Davis in eighth place.ĭavis, who held the lead opted to slow play kings in the big blind after Zavu moved all in. Auvil had an absolute blast from start to finish, almost ignoring the pressure of playing for a tournament score the likes of which he’d never before been so close to. He was at a loss for words afterward, but the recreational player from Stuart, Florida was sure to thank his boisterous and supportive rail.Īuvil certainly embodied the spirit of the Bar Poker Tour, as he was the most vibrant and exuberant character at the final table. The win is by far the largest of Auvil’s career. That purse was the very sizeable lion’s share of the $122,688 prize pool, built from a field of 426 entries in the latest successful iteration of the BPO here at the Palm Beach Kennel Club.

It was expected to be wild from start to finish, and the final day of the Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship more than lived up to those expectations, crowning Ian Auvil of the No-Limit Pub Poker Tour its newest champion.Īfter a thrilling roller coaster of a final table, Auvil defeated Ronald Kaepernick heads-up to take home the title and the $50,000 first prize.

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