{"id":41570,"date":"2015-12-07T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=41570"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:22:49","slug":"meet-the-people-wpt-prague-winner-javier-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/meet-the-people-wpt-prague-winner-javier-gomez.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet The People: WPT Prague Winner Javier Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Javier Gomez is the name of the latest World Poker Tour champion after the man from the Spanish university town of Salamanca outlasted a star-studded field of 256 players in the 2015 partypoker WPT Prague Main Event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/th>\nPlayer<\/th>\nPrize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nJavier Gomez<\/td>\n\u20ac175,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nPavel Plesuv<\/td>\n\u20ac120,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nFahredin Mustafiv<\/td>\n\u20ac77,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nPedro Marques<\/td>\n\u20ac57,400<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nAbdelkader Benhalima<\/td>\n\u20ac43,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nHenrik Hecklen<\/td>\n\u20ac34,100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It took only 17 hands at the six-handed final table for the first casualty of the day. The action passed to Denmark\u2019s Henrik Hecklen in the small blind and he raised all-in for around 10 big blinds. Gomez called from the small blind with and needed to connect with the board because Hecklen held . Hit the board is exactly what Gomez did because the five community cards ran to bust Hecklen and push Gomez\u2019s stack over the one million chip mark.<\/p>\n

Eleven hands later and the table became four-handed after the elimination of Abdelkader Benhalima. Portugal\u2019s Pedro Marques opened to 65,000 from under the gun at the 15,000\/30,000\/5,000a level with , Fehredin Mustafov three-bet to 175,000 with , Gomez flat-called with on the button, then Benhalima moved all-in for 1,300,000 with the less-than-stellar . Benhalima\u2019s move almost worked because Marques and Mustafov folded, but Gomez called to put the Algerian at risk.<\/p>\n

A tens-friendly sent Benhalima home in fifth place\u00a0and catapulted Gomez to the top of the chip counts by more than a 1,200,000 chip margin.<\/p>\n

Next to fall was Marques on the 59th hand of the day. Gomez min-raised to 80,000 from under the gun with his and called when Marques three-bet all-in for 935,000 in total with what turned out to be . Both players caught a piece of the flop, Gomez being much the happier player with the first three community cards. The gave Marques outs to a flush, but while the river was the correct colour, the was the wrong suit and Marques exited in fourth place.<\/p>\n

Gomez\u2019s one-man wrecking spree continued with the scalp of Mustafov. Looking down at on the button, Gomez raised to 80,000 and called when Mustafov moved all-in from the big blind for 830,000 with . Bulgaria\u2019s Mustafov looked set to double up as his pocket sevens were ahead until the river of the board, the nine of clubs sending into the cold Prague night.<\/p>\n

Thanks to him sending everyone else to the sidelines, Gomez went into the heads-up battle with Pavel Plesuv holding a 6,240,000 to 1,445,000 chip lead.<\/p>\n

Plesuv won a big pot immediately after the restart, then even took the lead at one point and looked likely to become the tournament\u2019s champion. However, Gomez\u2019s run-good shone through, albeit over the course of 136 one-on-one hands.<\/p>\n

Hand 211 saw Plesuv move all-in and Gomez call with . The dealer spread the board onto the felt, gifting Gomez a flush and a 6,675,000 stack to his opponent\u2019s 1,000,000.<\/p>\n

The next hand proved to be the final hand of the tournament. Gomez set Plesuv all-in with and was called by . Neither player improved on the board, ending Plesuv\u2019s run and crowning Gomez as the 2015 partypoker WPT Prague Main Event champion.<\/p>\n

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Javier Gomez is the name of the latest World Poker Tour champion after the man from the Spanish university town of Salamanca outlasted a star-studded field of 256 players in the 2015 partypoker WPT Prague Main Event. Place Player Prize 1 Javier Gomez \u20ac175,000 2 Pavel Plesuv \u20ac120,000 3 Fahredin Mustafiv \u20ac77,500 4 Pedro Marques<\/p>\n

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