{"id":22322,"date":"2012-07-03T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=22322"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:03:58","slug":"mike-sexton-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-9th.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sexton &#8211; Over a Million reasons to smile as he takes 9th in the Big One for One Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MikeRed590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MikeRed590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MikeRed590-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With eight players left in the running for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-drop-in-the-ocean-for-these-twelve-well-lets-see-what-duhamel-elky-and-negreanu-think-about-it.html\">Big One for One Drop<\/a> this is going to be one hell of a final table. Our very own poker ambassador Mike Sexton finished in 9th after going up against Antonio Esfandiari.<\/p>\n<h3>The Action<\/h3>\n<p>With the flop showing <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> both players checked, the turn shows <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> with Esfandiari then betting 1,150,000 at this point Mike decided to go all in. Now this is when it get&#8217;s kind of interesting as it turns out there was a little bit of confusion with the dealer who initially thought that Esfandiari had folded. However after calling the floor the situation was resolved Antonio Esfandiari showed <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> giving him two pair and Mike showed <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jd.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/10d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and with the river showing <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> Mike bowed out in 9th place and cashes for $1,109,333 . A terrific run for such a great event <a title=\"Mike Sexton talks to us about paying a $1M buy-in for a poker tournament and asks \u201cTony G, where are you?\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-on-paying-a-1m-buy-in-for-a-poker-tournament-buy-tony-g-where-are-you.html\">well done Mike!<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Eight Remain<\/h3>\n<p>The current Final Table standing look like this:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Seat<\/th>\n<th>Player<\/th>\n<th>Country<\/th>\n<th>Age<\/th>\n<th>Chip Count<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Guy Lalibert\u00e9<\/td>\n<td>Canada<\/td>\n<td>52<\/td>\n<td>21,700,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Brian Rast<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<td>11,350,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Phil Hellmuth<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<td>10,925,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Antonio Esfandiari<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>33<\/td>\n<td>39,925,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Bobby Baldwin<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>7,150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Sam Trickett<\/td>\n<td>UK<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>37,000,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Richard Yong<\/td>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<td>54<\/td>\n<td>7,475,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>David Einhorn<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>43<\/td>\n<td>8,375,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With eight players left in the running for the Big One for One Drop this is going to be one hell of a final table. Our very own poker ambassador Mike Sexton finished in 9th after going up against Antonio Esfandiari. The Action With the flop showing both players checked, the turn shows with Esfandiari<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-9th.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":22323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76896,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322\/revisions\/76896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22322"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}