Level: 27
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
Level: 27
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
When you're Guy Klass you can show up late from the break with a Hayburner in hand.
When Ernie Guardarramas makes it 100,000 preflop, you can make it 300,000 from the small blind. Then, you can open ship it all in on a flop and get Guardarramas to fold.
After that, you'll have 3,000,000 in chips and be leading the 2017 Seneca Fall Poker Classic Main Event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
3,000,000
285,000
|
285,000 |
Ernie Guardarramas |
900,000
-315,000
|
-315,000 |
Ernie Guardarramas open jammed the cutoff for under one million and Mark Roberts went all in for a little less from the small blind.
Guardarramas was caught with the against Roberts' timely . Aces held and Guardarramas had 125,000 left.
Those chips went in with queen-high the next hand and Guy Klass and Hassan Jamil called. Klass made a straight to end Guardarramas' run.
There's four left and chop negotiations have begun.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mark Roberts |
1,300,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
Ernie Guardarramas | Busted |
Guy Klass continues to add to his lead, playing aggressively with the big stack.
In the meantime, Jason Sagle is in the danger zone, but appeared to have just enough to get others to fold the two times he shipped it in.
Play continues four handed.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
3,700,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
2,300,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
Mark Roberts |
1,100,000
-200,000
|
-200,000 |
Jason Sagle |
700,000
-380,000
|
-380,000 |
Guy Klass now has more than half the chips in play after flopping a straight and getting a big raise on the turn and a big bet on the river paid off by Mark Roberts.
However, Roberts got all that back doubling through Hassan Jamil with versus fours. Roberts flopped two pair and boated up on the turn.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
4,700,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Mark Roberts |
1,400,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
1,000,000
-1,300,000
|
-1,300,000 |
Jason Sagle got his last half million in super good with jacks versus Mark Roberts' .
Roberts spiked an ace and the very dangerous Canadian, who has over $1 million in tournament cashes, is now out.
Three handed, Roberts is now the closest to Guy Klass with Hassan Jamil on the short stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
5,000,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Mark Roberts |
2,100,000
700,000
|
700,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
800,000
-200,000
|
-200,000 |
Jason Sagle | Busted |
Level: 28
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 5,000
Playing poker when you're facing a $10,000 pay jump can be a tricky proposition.
In fact, it basically has these three players handcuffed and the action has slowed down considerably. No one wants to be the next to go. No one wants to commit ICM suicide. There have been just a few flops lately, and the only turns and rivers have come after a series of checks.
Here's how the stacks look as they trade small pots:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
4,750,000
-250,000
|
-250,000 |
Mark Roberts |
2,150,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
1,000,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
If there's one player not handcuffed by the pay jump it's Guy Klass.
He's pushing the other two players around, playing the big stack bully and taking down the blinds again and again.
It also helps that he seems to have had an ace in his hand almost 80 percent of the time. The lead just keeps getting bigger.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
5,900,000
1,150,000
|
1,150,000 |
Mark Roberts |
1,500,000
-650,000
|
-650,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
600,000
-400,000
|
-400,000 |
Guy Klass made it 210,000 and Hassan Jamil went all in for 430,000 more than that.
Klass made the call to put Jamil at risk.
Klass:
Jamil:
The flop gave Klass the best hand, and the best draw. The turn missed them both, but the river came down and saved Jamil's tournament life, giving him two pair.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Guy Klass |
5,100,000
-800,000
|
-800,000 |
Mark Roberts |
1,600,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Hassan Jamil |
1,400,000
800,000
|
800,000 |