Player Update: Isaac Baron

It’s fair to say Isaac Baron is pretty good at tournament poker.

The man known as ‘westmenloAA’ on PokerStars got his SCOOP series off to a flying start with victory in Event #1, the $50 Re-Buys 6-max, for a cool $97,805, after fighting off 4,057 runners in over 16 hours of play.

Put this with his 3rd in the Sunday 500 for $50,000 just 12 days earlier and that’s almost $150,000 made in under 2 weeks!

Once it got down to the final table, there was never any reason to doubt Mr. Menlo – before this tournament started the Full Tilt pro already had a profit level of over $1million on Stars MTTs and he showed his class once again in a fantastic display of poker. Not that he didn’t have his fair share of luck along the way, as this huge pot 3-handed demonstrates:

prinzprosper (BB): t14241764 M = 54.25
westmenloAA (BTN): t13301111 M = 50.67
KidCardiff6 (SB): t7285625 M = 27.75

Pre Flop: (t262500)
westmenloAA raises to t350000, KidCardiff6 calls t280000, prinzprosper raises to t1540000, westmenloAA raises to t3360000, 1 fold, prinzprosper raises to t14224264 all in, westmenloAA calls t9923611 all in

Flop: (t26969722) 5 J 6 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t26969722) 8 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t26969722) Q (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: t26969722
prinzprosper shows K K (a pair of Kings)
westmenloAA shows Q Q (three of a kind, Queens)
westmenloAA wins t26969722

But this fantastic call in a t5million pot is a better example of his ability:

phil steve (MP): t2361350 M = 20.99
prinzprosper (CO): t6065954 M = 53.92
t soprano (BTN): t6561406 M = 58.32
westmenloAA (SB): t4193067 M = 37.27
KidCardiff6 (BB): t12403127 M = 110.25
MKKMOO (UTG): t3243596 M = 28.83

Pre Flop: (t112500)
2 folds, prinzprosper raises to t133333, 1 fold, westmenloAA calls t108333, 1 fold

Flop: (t354166) 2 J 2 (2 players)
westmenloAA checks, prinzprosper bets t222222, westmenloAA calls t222222

Turn: (t798610) 7 (2 players)
westmenloAA checks, prinzprosper bets t666666, westmenloAA calls t666666

River: (t2131942) 3 (2 players)
westmenloAA checks, prinzprosper bets t1444444, westmenloAA calls t1444444

Final Pot: t5020830
prinzprosper shows Q 8 (a pair of Deuces)
westmenloAA shows 6 6 (two pair, Sixes and Deuces)
westmenloAA wins t5020830

Congratulations to Baron – the California native is surely one of the best, if not the best, MTT player in the world right now and we wouldn’t rule out more enormous scores in the remaining SCOOP events to come.