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Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
2009 Aruba Poker Classic
$5,500 Aruba Poker Classic Championship
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 Aruba Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Prize Pool
$2,303,750
Total Entries
475
Level
26
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 475
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"Why does this always happen to me when I get moved and when I don't know how people play?" Venturini questioned. "this is such a bad laydown, but I fold." he continued as he revealed he was folding two black eights. Sharp didn't show and scooped in the pot.
Showdown
Jewett:
Czarnecki:
As Jewett stood to prepare for departure, the dealer ran the flop with another six right in the door! In the end, the board of
secured him a come-from-behind double up to about 90,000.
. Ty Reiman reraised all in for 107,300 total. James Mordue tanked and then folded before Mike Collins called.Lession showed
, Reiman showed 
and Reimain showed 
.The turn was the
and the river the 
. Lessin was the shortest stack and was eliminated while Reiman doubled to 250,000 through Collins. Mordue said he folded two queens.
Facing an opponent's 6,000 preflop raise and a call from Hook, Kakaradov moved all in for approximately 60,000 in chips. The original raiser laid down his hand (which he later claimed was two sevens) and Hook made the call. Moments later, they were off to the races:
Hook:
Kakaradov:
The
flop gave Hook two pair and the lead in the hand, and he never looked back as the turn and river blanked out 
, .Kakaradov will take home $9,210 in prize money as the first player eliminated inside the money. Meanwhile, Hook stacked up just over 200,000 in chips after the hand.
"Any other hand I would have folded." said Venturini as he tabled
. Moscati held 
.The board ran out
to send Moscati home in the final place that doesn't get paid, 46th. All of the remaining players are now in the money.
After another minute or so, he stuck his chips in the middle, and Reiman made the call to put him at risk, turning over
. That was music to the ears of Ryan Howard as he turned over 
. Unfortunately for him, the dealer would peel off a second on the turn, and Howard could not catch a king to survive. He's become our 47th-place finisher, putting the tournament squarely on the money bubble.
