Poker is a great game. There are few highs that can compared to dragging that big pot, pulling off that bluff, etc. However, it can also be a down right awful game, and we just saw that on display when Charles Coultas was eliminated.
We only caught the tail end of the action, but here is what we saw. The flop read , and Coultas was heads up with Randy Nguyen. We don't know the first two bet sizes, but we know that Nguyen led, Coultas raised, Nguyen three bet to 12,000, and Coultas shoved all in for 60,000.
Nguyen went deep into the tank, and at one point, held his cards up for his half of the table to see: . Nguyen had Coultas slightly covered, so if he made the call, the pot would have been over 125,000. Nguyen eventually made the call, and saw that he was up against the worst possible hand he could see.
Coultas:
Nguyen's top pair top kicker would need runner runner straight or running aces to win. Well the hit the turn, and based on what we've said so far, you can probably guess what came on the river.
River:
The whole tabled groaned at the site of the river, including Nguyen. To Coultas's credit, he took the beat very well, sitting in silence and shock for a few moments before getting up and wishing the table good luck.
After that pot, Nguyen is up there with the chip leaders of the tournament, with 135,000.
It was a short day for Day 1c of the 2012-13 World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Lodge Casino — at least for poker tournament standards. The day last eight hours with 150 players originally sitting down hoping to build up a stack to contend with the survivors from yesterday. After 12 action-packed levels, Evan Ross led the way with 141,100 in chips. Following Ross in the counts are WSOP gold bracelet winner Mitch Schock (116,300) and Randy Nguyen (109,100).
From Day 1c, 58 players are moving on to Day 2 to join the 76 who moved on from Day 1a and 1b. Amongst those who are still alive are David “ODB” Baker (89,800), Phillip Hui (65,700), Michael Taylor (54,000) and Michael Sanders (19,800), who is looking for back-to-back tournament victories here in Black Hawk.
Unfortunately, not everyone was able to make it through the day. Along the way we lost two-time bracelet winner Carter Phillips, Eric Roussakis, Rex Clinkscales and Chris Conrad. All of these players have fired two bullets and are therefore done in this tournament.
There are a few notables who busted on their first bullet today. That list includes Nghi Van Tran, La Sengphet, “Cowboy” John Land and WSOP Circuit Lake Tahoe Main Event champion Cary Marshall. These players will have the option to come back tomorrow and buy in directly to Day 2. If they do so, they will have a stack of 20,000 with the blinds starting at 700/1,400/200.
That does it for us here today. Tomorrow, the 134 survivors from flights 1a, 1b and 1c will return and join any other players who still have the option to buy in tomorrow morning. When they all get together, the plan is to play until Level 25 or until the final table is reached, whichever comes first.
Be sure to come back right here to Pokernews for all the flops, turns and rivers straight from the tournament floor. Until then, goodnight from Colorado!
, and Coultas was heads up with Randy Nguyen. We don't know the first two bet sizes, but we know that Nguyen led, Coultas raised, Nguyen three bet to 12,000, and Coultas shoved all in for 60,000.
. Nguyen had Coultas slightly covered, so if he made the call, the pot would have been over 125,000. Nguyen eventually made the call, and saw that he was up against the worst possible hand he could see.
hit the turn, and based on what we've said so far, you can probably guess what came on the river.
