Event 12: Wally Maddah – 5th Place ($616)

$150 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23: 25,000/50,000/5,000 Ante

Wally Maddah (Tampa, FL)
Wally Maddah (Tampa, FL)

Even with the quickly climbing blinds, the final table played five-handed for more than two levels before something big happened.

And it was two players catching two top hands that got things moving. John Pishos opened to 150,000 and Wally Maddah moved all-in over the top. They didn’t even try to count the stacks when Pishos quickly called with AcKd.

Maddah needed to win the race with JdJc to stay in the game but Pishos caught the Ks6d5c flop to take the lead. The board completed 8c and 9c to give Pishos the big hand and send the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa ambassador out in 5th place.