2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona

Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info

2017 888Live Poker Festival Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
€110,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€584,640
Entries
609
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Kellner On Fire but Kiefel Krushing

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante
Kelly Kellner in jovial mood at the table as always, here on Day 1c of the 888Live Main Event in Barcelona.
Kelly Kellner in jovial mood at the table as always, here on Day 1c of the 888Live Main Event in Barcelona.

An interesting two hands emerged from a fun table wihch features the newly-re-entered Cate Hall, everyone's favourite travelogue-posting high stakes cash game strategy whizz and Kelly Kellner who, and let's be clear about this, is one heck of a passionate Canadian.

A situation developed at the table which led to a poser from Torelli, but before that, let's rewind to the start of the hand with Kellner's tale of what happened.

"I had King-Jack, and called a bet in late position, I think it was 1,800. The flop came [Kc-Qc-Jh] with two clubs, I had no clubs, so he bet 3,500 and I called. The turn was the {7-Spades} and he bet 7,500 so I called again. On the {J-Hearts} river, he bet 12,000, about half his stack, so I moved in and started singing the Canadian National Anthem."

Wait, what? Yep, it's true. Kellner began the Canadian National Anthem, a full rendition of it. He's where Torelli comes in. He pitched the question to Twitter.

Proving that while we count chips while you riffle them, we can call a situation and voted a). Fortunately for the Canadian player, Kellner's opponent went with b), paying Kellner off and busting the tournament.

"He called me, showed a king and walked off. I got right to the end of the anthem too, and it's a long one, maybe two minutes. It's a Canadian crush."

Kellner also took part in the next hand, which was bumped to 2,500 pre-flop. The bet was made by a gentleman in middle position, and called not only by Kellner but raised to 7,500 by Philipp Kiefel in the big blind. Both opponents called.

On the flop of {Q-Hearts}{2-Spades}{9-Diamonds} , the gentleman in middle position open-shoved for 3,100. Kellner called that bet, but open-folded {J-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} to Kiefel's re-shove. He was right to do so, with Kiefel's {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs} way ahead of his opponent's {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts}. The turn {10-Spades} and river {4-Spades} kept it that way, and good humour between Kellner and Kiefel.

Player Chips Progress
Kelly Kellner ca
Kelly Kellner
125,000
95,000
95,000
Philipp Kiefel
Philipp Kiefel
57,000
57,000
57,000

Tags: 888LiveAlec TorelliCate HallKelly Kellner