Mueller Crippled Then Eliminated

Two hands and it's all over for Johannes Mueller.

In the first, Mueller opened for 40,000 and was met by a three-bet to 85,000 by Kevin Volz from the button. The blinds folded, Mueller elected to call, and the flop came down . Mueller then paused a moment before moving all in, which Volz snap-called.

Volz:
Mueller:

"I picked the wrong hand to bluff," Mueller lamented. Indeed he had as Volz flopped middle set. The Jh} turn locked up the hand for Volz, and after the was run out on the river, the stacks were verified. Volz doubled his last 118,000 while Mueller was left with just 24,000.

In the very next hand, Mueller put it in blind under the gun and received calls from Barry Kruger and Greg Long in early position and the big blind respectively. Both active players checked it down as the board ran out and Mueller mucked at the showdown. Kruger then showed the , which was good enough to beat Long's .