$570 No Limit Hold’em Double Black Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
Level 25: 12,000/24,000/4,000 Ante

Ido Ashkenazi began heads-up play with a chip lead of 1,090,000-to-600,000 over Will Failla, or roughly 1.8-to-1. But once heads-up play began, it was all Ashkenazi.

They battled for a full hour, and they both acted quickly and saw a lot of hands. There were only three all-in situations during that time, and each time Ashkenazi had at least a 9-to-1 chip lead.

Before the final hand was dealt, Ashkenazi said, “This is it. This is going to be the last hand.” Failla looked down at his cards in the small blind and said, “All in.” Ashkenazi checked his cards and said, “I call.”

Failla showed , and he needed to improve to stay alive against Ashkenazi’s .

The board came , and Ashkenazi won the pot — and the tournament — and Failla’s bounty — with a set of fives.

Failla finished as the runner-up to earn $9,126.

Ido Ashkenazi won Event 5 ($570 NLHE Double-Black-Chip Bounty) to earn $15,716 and a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown trophy.

Congratulations to Ido Ashkenazi!

1st:  Ido Ashkenazi  –  $15,716
2nd:  Will Failla  –  $9,126
3rd:  Nissim Vaknin  –  $5,831
4th:  John Merchant  –  $4,107
5th:  Blair Miller  –  $3,169
6th:  Eric Ward  –  $2,408
7th:  Marcus Stein  –  $1,876
8th:  Arkadiy Tsinis  –  $1,394
9th:  Natasha Barbour  –  $989
10th:  Greg Marcus  –  $786