Kellner On Fire but Kiefel Krushing
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 
and he bet 7,500 so I called again. On the 
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.
Guy stands up and starts singing the Canadian national anthem after being ALL-IN on the river. Do you... @888poker #888livebarcelona
— Alec Torelli (@AlecTorelli)
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 
, the gentleman in middle position open-shoved for 3,100. Kellner called that bet, but open-folded 
to Kiefel's re-shove. He was right to do so, with Kiefel's 
way ahead of his opponent's 
. The turn 
and river 
kept it that way, and good humour between Kellner and Kiefel.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000 | 95,000 |
|
|
57,000 | 57,000 |
. Giminez continued for 7,000, which Cernadas Tierra called. The 
turn paired the board and Giminez slowed down. Cernadas Tierra bet 14,000 and that was enough to end the hand right there.
came on the turn. MacIntyre's check was followed by a bet worth 4,100 by Pop and a fold by Geller, MacIntyre called.
, which Pop had beat 
. Both know each other quite well after spending a lot of time at the same time during the €2,200 High Roller here at Casino Barcelona: Pop won, MacIntyre came second.
, but couldn't catch Hansen's 
