David Singontiko might not be a house hold name to the casual poker fan, but he has already made waves in the poker world in his first year of live play. This past summer, the 21 year old took down his first WSOP event, winning a $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better event for $268,235. Just two weeks ago, he final tabled the WSOPC Main Event at the Bicycle Casino, where he took 4th place for $57,505.
Singontiko brought in yesterday and busted rather quickly, and he's giving it another shot today. His table started out looking like most other tables with a handful of random opponents. However, throughout the first two hours, Dutch Boyd and Steve Billirakis have both sat down at his table, making for easily the toughest table that we've seen so far today.
Since our last run through of the field, we noticed that both Jamie Gold and Frank Kassela have been eliminated. On the other end, we saw that Layne Flack, Dan Heimiller, and Ted Lawson have brought in and taken their seats.
We picked up the action on a flop with Russell Rosenblum having bet 750 from the button. The player in the big blind position check-raised to 1,750 and Rosenblum called.
The turn was the and the player first to act fired out 2,500. Rosenblum called.
The river was the and this time the player led out with a bet worth 6,550. Rosenblum contemplated his decision for a little while before eventually deciding that a fold was his best course of action.
The player in the cutoff opened the pot with a raise to 550 which was called by both of the blinds including Eli Elezra in the small blind. The flop was and both players checked to the preflop raiser who continued for 1000. Only Elezra called.
The turn was the which brought two quick checks. The river was the and for a third time, Elezra checked. The player in position took one more stab at it with a bet worth 1,500. Elezra tossed in the chips as his opponent meekly turned over his . Elezra tabled for just Ace-high but it was good enough to ship the pot and get him back over the starting stack.