Fernando Galvan is the big champion of the WSOP Circuit’s Planet Hollywood Las Vegas stop. The player topped the field of the $1,675 Main Event last night after a dominating performance during the final day. He scooped his first WSOP Circuit cash of $247,160 and his first WSOP Circuit gold ring to celebrate his triumph in the popular poker series.
Galvan was the last warrior standing out of a field of 845 entries. Although the eventual winner had quite some opposition, he slid through the final day of action relatively smoothly and entered the heads-up match with seven times more chips than his final opponent.
As already mentioned, the $1,675 Main Event attracted quite a lot of interest, which resulted in a bigger than planned prize pool. The tournament featured a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million but the guarantee was exceeded and the prize pool eventually reached the amount of $1,267,500. The top 90 finishers left with a portion of the money, min-cashes totaling $2,865.
Galvan entered the final day of play as the chip leader. The player secured the lead by winning a huge pot towards the end of Day 2 of the tournament. When cards were thrown in the air for Day 3 action, he had a total of 2.555 million, good for 85 big blinds. It can be said that Galvan almost did not lose ground throughout the final day of play, which helped him quite a lot to eventually scoop the title.
Final Table Play
The ten-handed final table was set shortly after Day 3 play kicked off. Galvan was not the chip leader at the time, but was still among the top stacks. The player managed to take control over the action not long after and it was quite clear for everyone left at the table that he was a tough nut to crack.
Given his performance during the final stages of the game, it was no surprise that Galvan eventually made it all the way to heads-up. He faced Corey Hochman heads-up. And while Galvan was among those to define the action at the final table, Hochman was among the quiet ones. The player kept quiet and did not make too much risky movements and thus survived through the final duel.
He entered that final stage of play at huge 7-to-1 deficit to his final opponent and it actually did not take long before the name of the winner was determined. Galvan needed just nine hands to finish off his opponent. And Hochman was actually given no chance at all to improve during the short heads-up match.
On what turned out to be the final hand in play, Galvan limped from the button, while his opponent shoved for his final 1.01 million. Galvan called, tabling [Qs][Qd] to Hochman’s [As][3d]. The board ran out [Ks][5h][3s][7c][4h], locking the victory for Galvan. Hochman collected $152,734 for his efforts.
