01-23-2009 03:02 UTC+11

Trung Tran Crippled, then Eliminated in 5th Place (AU$6,880)

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Trung Tran - 5th Place

Limit hold'em crippled Trung Tran; no-limit hold'em eliminated him.

Tran went to war with Adam Peck on the last hand of limit hold'em, raising preflop and then calling Peck's three-bet from the small blind. Peck made the first bet on a board of {7-Spades}

{7-Spades}

{J-Diamonds}

{8-Spades}

. Tran then raised enough to put Peck all in. He called.

Peck: {Q-Spades}

{Q-Spades}

{Q-Diamonds}

Tran:

{A-Spades}

{7-Clubs}

The turn and river were blanks. That left Tran with only 8,500 chips. He was in the 6,000-chip big blind on the next hand, when the game switched to no-limit hold'em. He moved in preflop after Marlon Goonawardana and Taner Durst both limped in. The action was checked all the way down on a board of {5-Clubs}

{5-Clubs}

{9-Spades}

{Q-Clubs}

{7-Hearts}

{Q-Hearts}

. Goonawardana came up with a pair of sevens, {k-Diamonds}

{k-Diamonds}

{7-Clubs}

. That was enough when Tran turned up {2-Diamonds}

{2-Diamonds}

{3-Clubs}

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Tags: Marlon Goonawardana Trung Tran