Just a Few More Shots
As always, with thanks to Neil Stoddart.
As always, with thanks to Neil Stoddart.
Well, we've lost another Czech, another Team PokerStars Pro, and the WSOP Main Event runner-up.
Martin Staszko and Calvin Anderson just tangled up in a big pot that saw Staszko raising and four-betting before flatting a five-bet to see an expensive flop. It came , and Staszko shoved his last 75,000 into the pot. Anderson made the call to put almost 300,000 chips in the middle heading to showdown:
Staszko:
Anderson:
Anderson went right ahead and binked his flush on the turn, and the left Staszko drawing dead. The river was meaningless, and that's just about all she wrote.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Calvin Anderson |
335,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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Martin Staszko | Busted | |
The players are on their last 15-minute break of the day.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
On the last hand before the break, Mike "Timex" McDonald and Alexander Kuzmin mixed it up in another big pot.
It began with Konstantin Puchkov opening to 4,500 under the gun, and Kuzmin flatted in the cutoff seat. From the button, McDonald squeezed in a reraise to 12,400, and Puchkov quickly called. The action froze back on Kuzmin, though, and he eventually decided that he wanted to play for more. Stacking out 40,000 chips, he made a back-raise, and McDonald responded by reraising all in for 91,800 total. That finally shook Puchkov out of the way, and Kuzmin asked for the count before calling. He had the covering stack, but only just.
Showdown
Kuzmin:
McDonald:
McDonald's eyes widened for just a moment as he willed the dealer to be kind in this coin flip.
The flop was a good sweat -- there's always a sweat -- and Kuzmin added the flush draw to his two overcards. The board-pairing on the turn was a good card for McDonald, robbing one of Kuzmin's outs and putting himself one card from the double.
That turn card would prove to be rather necessary for Timex, too. The river was a flush card for Kuzmin, but it made McDonald the superior tens full.
When Kuzmin counted down his losses, he was left with less than 4,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike McDonald |
201,000
143,000
|
143,000 |
|
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Alexander Kuzmin | 3,800 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mads Wissing |
612,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
Jude Ainsworth |
546,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
Martin Finger |
529,000
289,000
|
289,000 |
We missed the hand that took the rest of her chips, but after a level-long battle with the short stack, Melanie Weisner has been eliminated.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Melanie Weisner | Busted |
When we walked up to the table, we joined a preflop battle in progress between Martins Adeniya and Martin Finger. In the cutoff seat, Adeniya had 22,700 chips out in front of him -- it appeared to be a four-bet. Finger had five-bet to 36,000 from the small blind, and we watched Adeniya reraise it right back to 50,000 total. Finally, Finger had enough of the clicking-back, and he announced the seven-bet shove. Adeniya immediately folded, leaving himself with 177,000 now.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Martin Finger |
540,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
Martins Adeniya |
177,000
-63,000
|
-63,000 |
Johnny Lodden opened the pot to 4,100, and Tomas Elexhauser three-bet to 13,200 out of positon in the small blind. The Team PokerStars Pro spent a couple long minutes in the tank, but he eventually called to proceed.
Heads up, the dealer spread out and Elexhauser instantly had 11,000 more chips in the pot. Lodden called that bet, and he called another 21,000 after the turn. On the river , the two men were content to check it down.
Elexhauser showed up for ace-high, and it was good enough to win the pot. After that exchange, he's pipped just ahead of Lodden, and both men are hovering right around the chip average.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tomas Elexhauser | 130,000 | |
Johnny Lodden |
120,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
We didn't see it happen, but rumor has it Gus Hansen just had his pocket kings cracked to end his day. We're not even sure who his knocker-out was, but we understand a player with ace-jack made trip aces on the turn and river to send The Great Dane to the pound.