12-05-2009 13:32 UTC+11

Assadourian Mows Over Pongrass

donpeters

Tom Pongrass

One of the two remaining members of Team PokerStars, Eric Assadourian just knocked out Tom Pongrass from the tournament. Assadourian had two eights -- {8-Hearts}

{8-Hearts}

{8-Diamonds}

-- against the short-stacked Pongrass's {Q-Clubs}

{Q-Clubs}

{10-Clubs}

. All of the money went in preflop.

The board ran out {J-Hearts}

{J-Hearts}

{6-Hearts}

{5-Hearts}

{9-Diamonds}

{6-Spades}

to send Pongrass to the rail. Assadourian added those 70,000 chips to his stack and now has 350,000 chips.

Tags: Eric Assadourian Tom Pongrass