2025 SunBet GrandWest

Joe-Boy Rahme MonsterStaK Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 SunBet GrandWest
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kk
Prize
908,900 ZAR
Event Info
Buy-in
15,000 ZAR
Prize Pool
4,334,400 ZAR
Total Entries
344
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
211
Players Left
43
Players Left 1 / 344

Courtney and McCarthy Out Before the Money

Level 20 : Blinds 10,000/15,000, 15,000 ante
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy

The screens had just been updated to 45 players left and the tournament staff verified the number of remaining players because there had been another two casualties to potentially already had burst the bubble.

On the outer tables, Stephen Courtney was all-in with A3 against the 99 of Gabriel Demuru in the small blind. The 955 flop had Courtney in need of running aces. The 8 turn and J river changed nothing to see Courtney depart right on the bubble.

There was another hand going on, however, and that indeed let the bubble burst. Braam Van Huyssteen and Nico Wiechers limped from the hijack and cutoff respectively, then called the raise by Jamie McCarthy in the small blind. On the 1076 flop, McCarthy continued for 40,000 and Van Huyssteen folded. Wiechers moved all-in and McCarthy called all-in.

Jamie McCarthy: A10 All in
Nico Wiechers: 77

The 2 turn left McCarthy drawing dead as he had no diamond in his hand, and the K river was insignificant by then.

With the sudden eliminations in very short time, the field went from 46 hopefuls to 43 contenders left and the bubble burst without hand-for-hand play. All remaining survivors then bagged up their chips.

Tags: Braam Van HuyssteenGabriel DemuruJamie McCarthyNico WiechersStephen Courtney