The $200,000 celebrity invitation freeroll drew a crowd of 420 celebrities to Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, it was always going to be a lot of fun and the final table was no exceptation here is how chips were spread at the start:
Seat 1: Glenn Morshower Chips: 855,000
Seat 2: “Miami” John Cernuto Chips: 615,000
Seat 3: Nick Cassavetes Chips: 625,000
Seat 4: David Mosikian Chips: 160,000
Seat 5: Adam Weinraub Chips: 565,000
Seat 6: Tim West Chips: 1,115,000
After a lot of banter and play the chips had been passed around the table, the first elimination was Glenn Morshower who had started the final table second in chips here is his last hand. Morshower held 9c 7s Cernuto held Kd 5s they checked when the flop came 9d 5h 2d but a Kh dropped on the turn and all the chips went in when Morshower held a pair of 9’s against the K’s of Cernuto, the river was an irrelevant Ad and Glenn Morshower was sent back to Hollywood in 6th place.
The next celeb to go was Nick Cassavetes when he fell into the trap of Adam Weinraud. Nick held 10c 7h and tried to push Adam out of the pot on the flop which was the Kh Ks 2d Adam called straight away because he Kd Jc for 3 Kings the turn and river were no help to Nick and he was sent to rail in 5th place.
The third player to go was Mosikian when he moved All-In with his small stack of 160,000 with Ks Qs, Weinraub called with Ac 7h. The board came Jc 8c 8h 10s 6h, Weinraub became the chip leader, and Mosikian was sent home in 4th place.
Then, Weinraub looked down at Kh Qd and raised to 300,000. West reraised All-In for his last 510,000, and Weinraub called. The board showed AdKdQh8d10h, and West was given the boot in 3rd place.
Going into heads-up action, the chip counts were as follows:
Adam Weinraub 2,875,000
John Cernuto 1,060,000
Not long into heads up play Cernuto raised All-In for his last 740,000 with Qh Jc, and Weinraub called with Ah Jh. The flop came 8s 6h 5d 2c 9s, and that was that. Miami John Cernuto finished in 2nd place. And Adam Weinraub took first place, he collected $125,000 in prize money, he promptly announced that he would be donating $20,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the organization to which he donated through the silent auction to win his seat into the Invitational.
--Steven Eddleston
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