{"id":1477,"date":"2012-06-06T01:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2012-06-08T01:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T05:36:32","slug":"cazals-cheong-record-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/cazals-cheong-record-wsop","title":{"rendered":"Aubin Cazals sets HU Record in 2012 WSOP Event #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Going into the 2012 WSOP Event #6 NLHE Mixed-Match tournament, the big story involved how this was the first “mixed-match” event in WSOP history. Coming out of the tournament, everybody was taking about the record heads-up match that was played between Aubin Cazals and Warwick Mirzikinian.<\/p>\n

As for the mixed-match topic, players were to compete on 9-handed tables during Day 1, six-handed tables on Day 2, and heads-up matches on Day 3 and 4. In actually, Day 4 stretched into a fifth day – thanks in large part to the marathon semi-final heads-up match between Cazals and\u00a0Mirzikinian. The two grinders took over nine hours to complete their heads-up match, which was a full two hours longer than when David “Chip” Reese and Andy Bloch dueled each other in a $50k Player Championship six years ago.<\/p>\n

The truth is that Cazals and Mirzikinian will probably see asterisks in the record books because they weren’t officially in the heads-up part of the tournament (due to the semi-finals). However, most people will probably contend that this is indeed a record for the WSOP.<\/p>\n

Moving along, once Cazals busted Mirzikinian out, he moved on to face Joseph Cheong, who enjoyed a relatively easy semi-finals match (two hours) against Hugo Lemaire. Cheong was looking for redemption after having somewhat of a meltdown in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, where he spewed off a lot of chips and ended up busting out in third – though it looked like he would be eventual champion Jonathan Dumahel’s<\/a> heads-up opponent.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Cheong didn’t find what he was looking for here after a five hour heads-up match. While holding pocket 4’s, he all-in six-bet Cazals (pocket kings) in mistakenly\u00a0thinking he was playing weak. However, the Frenchman wasn’t weak at all with his pocket kings, and Cazals won the tournament along with a nice\u00a0$480,564 prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going into the 2012 WSOP Event #6 NLHE Mixed-Match tournament, the big story involved how this was the first “mixed-match” event in WSOP history. Coming out of the tournament, everybody was taking about the record heads-up match that was played between Aubin Cazals and Warwick Mirzikinian. As for the mixed-match topic, players were to compete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[893,895,892,896,897,534,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}