The earth is blue. In 2060, it turns red. I saw it, today, at the top of the Tokyo Tower, next to the biggest starfish I have ever seen in my life.
Imagine being a starfish.
Boring.
Imagine being a Fox.
Much more interesting.
I’ve just checked 2011 for fascinating events, and the first to poke me in the eye was the earthquakes and tsunamis that kicked Japan in the balls. Not something you want to remember when sitting in the place.
10,000 miles away, in the same year, Elio Fox was climbing to eighth in the 2011 live tournament money earned list after winning a Venetian DeepStack for $87,192, the Bellagio Cup for $669,692, and the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event in Cannes for $1,870,208.
And then, nothing.
Seven years passed.
Hibernation ended.
The Fox crept out of his burrow.
Hungry; wanting shark for tea.
Fox has taken down the $50,000 Super High Roller at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) in Hollywood, Florida, after beating Dan Shak, heads-up.
The $1m GTD event attracted 25 entrants, locking up the guarantee, and donating $500,000 into the coffers of the sly one. Fox has now earned more than $3.8m in 2018, after winning nothing but a few bags of nuts since 2011.
He had a fantastic time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), winning the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em for $393,693, finishing second to Nick Petrangelo in the $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for more than $1.7m, and ninth in the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $139,699. In between those spectacular results, Fox also cashed in four ARIA High Rollers, including two wins.
After the WSOP shut up shop, Fox entered the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Six-Handed at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Festival in Los Angeles and took it down for $225,000.
“It was a tough tournament,” Fox told Maria Ho after winning the $50k. “I got lucky a bunch of times. It was a lot of fun.”
Don’t ever write a book, Elio.
Here were the final table chip counts.
Final Table Chip Counts
1. Elio Fox – 706,000
2. Chris Hunichen – 363,000
3. Bryn Kenney – 280,000
4. Dan Shak – 269,000
5. Sam Soverel – 246,000
6. Giuseppe Iadisernia – 217,000
7. Ali Imsirovic – 193,000
8. Taylor Black – 163,000
9. Ian O’Hara – 63,000
Six people would get paid, meaning three would leave with nothing but dried sweat on their hands.
The first to leave was Ian O’Hara who moved all-in holding A7s, and Sam Soverel made the call with AQo. An ace and a queen on the clubless flop ended O’Hara’s hopes of turning the short stack into the only stack.
Then we lost Taylor Black after the partypoker MILLIONS North America Champion fired three barrels into the chip leader with nothing but an airball, and Fox was able to soak up all three, flopping a pair and rivering trips.
Soverel was next to leave the building after moving all-in with A9o, only for Giuseppe Iadisernia to call and batter him with AKo. And then we lost Bryn Kenney on the bubble when he moved all-in from the button holding pocket nines, and Iadisernia called with the ladies.
Chris Hunichen was the first player to leave in profit.
Big Huni moved all-in with pocket fives, and Dan Shak’s pocket jacks swallowed him whole. Ali Imsirovic exited in fourth when he flopped two pairs with AJo on AQQ, only for Dan Shak to hit trip queens with Q8s in the small blind.
That exit handed Shak the chip lead with three players remaining.
1. Dan Shak – 975,000
2. Elio Fox – 965,000
3. Giuseppe Iadisernia – 560,000
And Shak extended that lead by eliminating Iadisernia all-in pre-flop A7o>KTo.
Heads-Up
1. Dan Shak – 1,350,000
2. Elio Fox – 1,150,000
The final fight lasted less than 15-minutes when the pair got it in on KKJT with Shak holding J3o for two pairs, and Fox holding AQs for Broadway.
The 5s bricked on the river.
Fox was the champion.
Again.
The next time we see him the planet will be redder than Mars.
ITM Finishes
1. Elio Fox – $500,000
2. Dan Shak – $305,000
3. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $190,000
4. Ali Imsirovic – $130,000
5. Chris Hunichen – $100,000