Cole Ferraro On Oct.15, Cole Ferraro finished in second place out of 1,358 entrants to Dalibor Dula in Event #22: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em for a career-best score of $123,142. Now, only two weeks later he has topped his own best WSOP finish in a field of 3,923 players to take down Event #61: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Holdem for $252,491 , besting Sami Rustom heads up.
“After my second place, this time I felt like I was gunning for first, maybe even a little harder than last time,” Ferraro shared with PokerNews after his victory. Event #61 Final Table Results
1 Cole Ferraro United States $252,419 2 Sami Rustom United States $156,056 3 Sean Dunleavy United States $117,882 4 Bart Lybaert Belgium $89,587 5 Richard Dixon United States $68,604 6 Edgardo Rosario United States $52,914 7 Xiangdong Huang Canada $41,108 8 Ruben Chappell United States $32,169 9 Ronald Slucker United States $25,359 The 22-year old recent college graduate started playing poker online a year and a half ago and is playing in his first WSOP. He is now only the third player this year to have a first place and a second place in bracelet events, the others are Phil Hellmuth and Ryan Leng , as well as the youngest to do so, and the only one of the three who’s finishes both came in no-limit hold’em tournaments.
“I moved out to Las Vegas in May, after I graduated college I got a part-time job and played about four to five times a week,” he said when asked about his status as a player. “This trip to the World Series was a trial of sorts, but given everything that has happened over these two weeks I think it will supersede my other job.”
Ferraro’s day was a rollercoaster of chip changes, coming in as an average stack, to being down to six big blinds, to spinning it up to the chip lead at the beginning of the final table. Ferraro maintained a bigger stack the entire final table, until losing the lead heads up, but ultimately came back out on top. […]
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