Carl Carodenuto Goes Back-to-Back at MSPT Canterbury To Win $90,805 | PokerNews

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In December, Carl Carodenuto greater than doubled his lifetime tournament earnings by winning Mid-States Poker Tour Canterbury Park for $116,103. He repeated the trick Sunday night to become the primary back-to-back winner on the same venue within the tour's history, topping a field of 376 to bank $90,805 and become the seventh two-time winner in MSPT history.

Carodenuto bested a last table that included World Series of Poker bracelet winner Adam Friedman and previous MSPT Canterbury champ "DQ" Dan Hendrickson.

Final Table Results

Place Player Hometown Prize

1	Carl Carodenuto	Bloomington, MN	$90,805
2	Gennady Shimelfarb	Minneapolis, MN	$54,483
3	Jeff Taylor	Eden Prairie, MN	$35,341
4	Adam Friedman	Gahanna, OH	$24,699
5	JK Song	Minneapolis, MN	$18,524
6	Pete Bigelow	Moose Lake, MN	$14,529
7	Tim Signore	Oak Lawn, IL	$12,349
8	Justin Thurlow	Cottage Grove, MN	$10,170
9	Scott Johnson	White Bear Lake, MN	$8,717
10	Dan Hendrickson	Faribault, MN	$6,902

The $1,100 event paid out to 36 places, and a number of the players making the cash were Tony Hartmann (31st), Josh Reichard (30th), John Hayes (23rd), Scott Sitron (21st), Travis Lauson (18th), and WSOP bracelet winner John Reading (17th).

According to the live updates, Carodenuto held a narrow chip lead over Friedman when the overall table began, but it surely was short stack Gennady Shimelfarb who was the star early. After winning two early races, he shot up from nine big blinds to a playable stack.

One of these came against Hendrickson, who was denied his second MSPT title and located himself out in 10th after running the into the aces of JK Song. It was aces over ace-king again for the following elimination, with Carodenuto doing the honors to send out Scott Johnson.

Justin Thurlow then tried squeezing all in for 13 big blinds over a raise from Carodenuto and a call, but Carodenuto had the products with the and Thurlow was forced to turn down the , which didn't improve at the board.

Carodenuto's hot run continued when he got the in against the of Tim Signore and ran a diamond flush despite Signore turning a couple of jacks. After Pete Bigelow and Song went bust in sixth and fifth, respectively, Carodenuto had about half the chips in play.

Friedman tried cramming his last 685,000 in at 25,000/50,000/5,000 with the but Shimelfarb awoke with the and neither player found a pair, leaving ace-high best.

Carodenuto picked up the three-handed and got Jeff Taylor in danger with the . The board read on fourth and Taylor looked poised to double, but Carodenuto found the to make a flush at the river and take a 5-1 lead into heads-up play.

Shimelfarb had done well to move his short stack that far, but he would go no further as his couldn't overcome the of Carodenuto when the 2 got it in preflop and Carodenuto turned the nut flush on a runout.

"Absolutely, I HAVE to check out to defend again," he told tournament reporters when asked if he'd be going for the three-peat when the tour comes back to Canterbury in December.

*Image courtesy of the MSPT.

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