Just seven months after his November Nine experience, Matt Jarvis is a WSOP bracelet winner.

In the span of one year Matt Jarvis has gone from unknown poker pro to November Niner to World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Early Sunday afternoon Jarvis completed that circle when he won the $5,000 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em event and $808,538. Jarvis hopes that the poker world sees his bracelet win as validation of his game.

“I think the November Nine kind of put me on the map and this shows, especially in a tough field, I can do it again, I’m a capable poker player,” said Jarvis. “I don’t know if I can say that one is better than the other, I’m just really happy that one followed the other.”

Jarvis beat Justin Filtz heads-up to claim the title and win the fifth WSOP bracelet of 2011 for Canadian players. Jarvis joins Dan Idema, Kirk Caldwell, Tyler Bonkowski and Mark Radoja as Canucks taking home the hardware. That beats the previous record of four which was set last year.

Jarvis survived a final table that took two days to complete thanks to the hard-stop rule. What was supposed to be the final day started with 20 players in contention including Jonathan Duhamel, Daniel Negreanu and Shane Schleger. All three of those players busted early in the day and Dan O’Brien, making his WSOP-leading seventh cash, bubbled the final table.

Just after O’Brien busted Matt Vengrin got his short stack in the middle with Q J against the A 5 of Wesley Pantling. The flop came A 8 7 putting Pantling in further control. The 4 on the turn gave Vengrin outs for a flush but the river brought the 8 and he was out of his fourth career WSOP final table in sixth place for $98,567.

Norway’s hopes at a bracelet were dashed when Tore Lukashaugen busted in fifth.Filtz opened from the button for 70,000. Lukashagen then moved all-in from the big blind and Filtz called and showed A Q to the pocket queens of Lukashagen. The flop came A 3 2 with Flitz making a pair of aces. The T on the turn gave Lukashaugen a chance to draw to broadway but the 9 was no good and the 41-year-old Norwegian was out in fifth for $141,125.

Filtz would once again use A-Q to send another player home. Anthony Merulla bet 70,000, Filtz made it 190,000 and Merulla moved all-in for 1,250,000. Filtz eventually called and turned over A Q and found he had Merulla dominated after the New Yorker showed A 8. The board brought four spades giving Filtz a nut flush he didn’t need and sent Merulla home with $208,281 for a fourth place finish.

Jarvis picked up his first elimination of the final table thanks to an all-in confrontation with Pantling. The 26-year-old raised to 120,000 before Jarvis moved all-in from the big blind. Pantling made the call and showed A J while Jarvis showed Q 8. The K 6 5 flop was a safe one for Pantling but the Q on the turn left Pantling drawing to any ace or any ten. The 6 was a complete miss and Jarvis sent Pantling home in third.

Heads-up play began with Jarvis holding 7,000,000 of the 11,000,000 in chips in play. The two players played heads-up for three-and-a-half hours before the WSOP hard-stop rule came into effect. Jarvis had 8,645,000 and Filtz had 2,345,000 as the two players bagged up their chips. The two returned to the ESPN main stage on Sunday afternoon and played for another six minutes before Jarvis had the bracelet.

On the final hand of tournament Filtz moved all-in from the button with K 9 and Jarvis called with A 8. The flop, turn and river failed to improve Filtz’s hand and he was eliminated in second place for $499,855.

“My girlfriend woke me up this morning and had a nice relaxing morning. I played some pool with my buddy. We went over a few things that I needed to concentrate on today and I think I got a lot more prepared than what needed to be for a six minute event. He played so well last night. I was bringing game to sit here for another ten hours if I had to.

Justin Flitz

Final Table Payouts:

1. Matt Jarvis – $808,538
2. Justin Filtz – $499,855
3. Wesley Pantling – $317,136
4. Anthony Merulla – $208,281
5. Tore Lukashaugen – $141,125
6. Matt Vengrin – $98,567

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