Max Greenwood Wins 2008 WSOP Event #44

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Max Greenwood

Max Greenwood, 2008 WSOP $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys Champion

Without a doubt this was the loudest crowd of fans to date for a 2008 WSOP feature final table event. The cheering for the heads-up play for the bracelet was heard all the way to the Rio's Masquerade Village. Crazed fans wearing gold crowns and carry hatchets filled the stands behind their poker hero, Rene Mouritsen. On the other side of the stands was an equally fired up crowd of backers for Max Greenwood. The two groups would engage in yelling contest every hand, they also engaged in some off-table prop betting with hand fulls of cash that reached upwards to $25K...and who said live poker was dull and boring?

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Max Greenwood

Prop betting Danes (gold crowns) vs Canadians (red shirts)

In the final tally it was the young player from Toronto that ruled the day and the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys event. The final hand saw both players holding a Jack and making top pair with a J,4,5 flop. Greenwood checked, Rene Mouritsen bet out, and Greenwood raised it to a half million. Mouritsen went under the hood for a few seconds and declared all-in. Greenwood immediately called, turning over his Jack with an Ace kicker. A dejected Mouritsen flipped up his Jack with a King kicker and that's how it ended.

Max Greenwood goes back to Canada with $693,444 plus the coveted gold WSOP bracelet while Rene Mouritsen will head across the pond to Denmark with his $445,523 second place bounty. Another Dane, Albert Iversen, takes downt he $267,314 for his third place finish.

Congratulations to Max Greenwood for making a great comeback to win the 2008 WSOP $1,000 No Limit Hold'em w/Rebuys Championship.

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Max Greenwood