History Repeats Itself - Newhouse Finishes In 9th

History Repeats Itself – Newhouse Finishes In 9th

A gutsy play or massive mistake. Professional poker players and the viewing public will likely be debating the extraordinary 9th place bustout of Mark Newhouse from the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event for quite some time.

Of course, the finish doesn’t diminish the massive accomplishment of Mark Newhouse, the first player to make back to back WSOP final tables in the November Nine era, but it must be noted that if there was one thing that Newhouse was adamant about it was that above all, he didn’t want to finish 9th again.

Just bought into the main event day 1c. Not fucking finishing 9th again— mark newhouse (@mark_hizzle) July 07, 2014

After the river double paired the board, it looked like Newhouse turned his pocket tens into a bluff in an attempt to take down what had amounted to a massive pot (roughly $22M before the shove). William Tonking, holding pocket Queens, couldn’t resist the price of the call (as he had Newhouse covered) and gave the poker world the biggest case of deja vu they’d ever had as they watched Newhouse, once again, finish the WSOP Main Event in 9th place in heartbreaking fashion.

The initial reactions found many on the rail feeling for the plight of Newhouse.

Must be so brutal for @mark_hizzle but this is an all-time great accomplishment and while others laugh he’ll just make 750k each year— Scott Seiver (@scott_seiver) November 11, 2014

Man. That really sucks for @mark_hizzle I really wanted to see him finish at least top 3. Guess it’s time for him to make it back next yr.— JC TRAN (@jctran23) November 11, 2014

Mad respect for @mark_hizzle … Mad respect— Jean-Robert Bellande (@BrokeLivingJRB) November 11, 2014

But some took the opportunity to also critique the hand.

Hellacious check call on turn from Tonking, Newhouse’s turn bet may be worse. River shove… I just don’t know about that one #WSOP— Dan O'Brien (@DanOBrienPoker) November 11, 2014

It’s better to make the big unsuccessful bluff like Mark Newhouse did, than spending the rest of your life wondering it it would have worked— Barry Greenstein (@barrygreenstein) November 11, 2014

More I think about shove by Newhouse, more I’m not so sure. How many J’s does he have in his range? Is he calling a Tonking 3bet w/ KJ? JT?— David Tuchman (@TuckonSports) November 11, 2014

No matter how history looks back on the pair of 9th place finishes, it will always remember Newhouse as having accomplished a feat that we may never see again.

Newhouse after the fall

Not the story poker fans expected. Mark Newhouse out in 9th place. He’s with friends and just ready to move on…

published 6 years, 11 months ago • by Jeff • permalink

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