Back-to-Back Losses for Edmonds

In no-limit hold'em, one or two hands can change everything. Brendan Edmonds was one of the chip leaders a few moments ago; now he's in with the short stacks. Edmonds opened a pot to 42,000 from the button, then called when Polish player Daniel Kowalski reraised the small blind to 100,000. Kowalski check-called a bet of 110,000 from Edmonds on a big flop, {A-Diamonds}

. He checked again when the turn fell {10-Hearts}

. Edmonds tried a bet of 200,000 only to see Kowalski move all in for about 500,000. Edmonds quickly mucked his hand.

A few hands later, Edmonds took a shot at eliminating Tony Basile. Basile opened for 43,000, then moved all in for 350,000 after Edmonds three-bet to 120,000. Edmonds called with {A-Spades}

, but ace-king couldn't get the job done against Basile's pocket tens as the board ran out {7-Clubs}

, allowing the Canadian Basile to double up to 720,000.

As a result of those two hands, Edmonds has lost two-thirds of his stack, falling from approximately 1.2 million in chips to 420,000.

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