Little Takes Mirage WPT Title

Filed in archive Tournament News on May 30, 2007

The World Poker Tour kicked off its six season without the assistance of the lovely Sabina Gadecki or any hostess for that matter. Leaving the pros to fend for themselves as they busted out of the Mirage Poker Showdown brought together enough players to hand over yet another million dollar plus first prize.

Poker is a fad, just like the boys at Wicked Chops Poker insist on calling it.

And the best players never win right? Enter Phil Ivey into the final table once again, trying valiantly to toss another trophy onto his rather crowded case. But the five time WSOP bracelet winner would bow out in fifth place and will have to settle for a six figure payday.

Internet players Darrell "Gigabet" Dicken and WSOP Caesar's Circuit champ Cory Carroll also graced the final table but fell short of the WPT title.

Jonathan Little managed to snag the big prize of $1,066,295 after defeating those oft mentioned players above. Here's Wicked Chops bringing home their own brand of final table recaps:

Ok, you'd think that if you've made seven short-handed final tables, and you're the best poker player in the world, that just by dumb luck you'd have won one of them by now, right?

Guess not. Going into final table play of the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown as the chip leader, Phil Ivey busted out in fifth place, banking $129,684, or as Phil likes to call it, "butt-wiping money."

Going out first was Burt from sesame street. Burt busted on the second hand of final table play. Burt banks $100,865 for his efforts.

Also not winning this tournament was Day 2 + 3 chip leader Darrell "Deep" Dicken. He went out in third and collected $259,369.

Well at least did the fantastically name-alliterated Cory Carroll win? Nope. Second. $561,369.

That leaves us with Richard Kirsch and Jonathan Little. And rather than struggle for a few minutes to come up with some sort of snarky comment on each, like how dudes whose names are Jon but insist on going by Jonathan bug the hell out of us, we'll just say that Jonathan Little won this thing, taking home $1,066,295 and his first WPT title.