2009 L.A. Poker Classic
$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 5
Event Info
2009 L.A. Poker Classic
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$9,600
Entries
696
Level
35
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 696
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Bryan's demise came after he attempted to make a move holding the
. Facing a 100,000 preflop raise from Cahail, Bryan moved all in over the top, but was quickly looked up by Cahail who tabled a pocket pair of kings.A
flop ensued, giving Cahail a monstrous lead in the hand, but as the WPT's B.J. Nemeth pointed out, Bryan wasn't drawing completely dead.... he still had running outs to a straight flush. While that might've made for some pretty sweet blog material, the possibility was killed when the 
fell on the turn, locking things up for Cahail.We'll have new chip counts posted momentarily!
. Both players checked. When the turn fell , Walsh took a stab with a bet of 110,000. Cahail wanted to see the river; he put a matching 110,000 chips into the pot. The river was the 
, which both players quickly checked. Walsh's 
was no match for Cahail's pocket pair, 
. Another pot was pushed in Cahail's direction.
"We want to see some action! Let's go!" said one fan.
"Somebody double down!" yelled another.
Here's an example of what's passing for action right now. Blake Cahail opened for 100,000 from middle position and was called by Binh Nguyen from the button. On a flop of
, Cahail fired out an additional 150,000. Nguyen folded.
According to Tournament Director Matt Savage, all of the money went in before the flop; Arjang's with
and Cahail's with two black fives. Arjang was able to spike a king to secure the double up, sending Cahail back down to 2.1 million in chips.
Here's the re-draw for the final table:
Seat 1: Chris Ferguson
Seat 2: Cornel Andrew Cimpan
Seat 3: Pat Walsh
Seat 4: Payman Arjang
Seat 5: Blake Cahail
Seat 6: Chris Karagulleyan
Seat 7: Mike Sowers
Seat 8: Binh Nguyen
Seat 9: Mark Bryan
Arjang:
D'Auria:
D'Auria was in prime position to eliminate Arjang, but a board of
gave Arjang the nut flush and the pot. That setback left D'Auria with 20,000 chips. He folded the first hand after putting in a 5,000 ante; the second hand, his whole stack went in. He was called by Cornel Andrew Cimpan, Mark Bryan and Pat Walsh. Walsh bet the
flop, folding the other live players. He turned over 
for a pair of jacks against D'Auria's 
; the turn 
gave Walsh two pair and an unbeatable hand.D'Auria reported to the cage after the dealer burned and turned the
as the river card. He earned $64,477 for finishing in 11th place. Not bad for a freeroll.
After asking the dealer for a count, D'Auria dove deep into the tank. A few minutes then passed before Payman Arjang, who folded before the action fell on D'Auria, spoke up, saying, "Ah... we need to go a little bit quicker. Not you (D'Auria), but in general."
Cornel Andrew Cimpan quickly came to D'Auria's defense. "This is huge. Give him time."
"The blinds are getting up there and the clock is working against us," Arjang replied, barely able to blurt out a complete rebuttal before D'Auria announced "Call!"
Everyone else got out of the way and when the hands were turned over, the room let out a collective groan as both players revealed variations of ace-king:
D'Auria:
Walsh:
Before the dealer spread the flop, D'Auria stood up and reached out to Walsh offering a friendly fist pound.
"No hearts!" D'Auria pleaded with the dealer, as she revealed the flop:
.Matt Savage narrated from there; here's the gist of it:
"There's one heart," he said, after the flop was on the table.
Turn:
"There's two hearts! Let's see the river..."
River:
"It's a heart! Pat has made a flush!"
The room was stunned. The hand left D'Auria with just 275,000 in chips while Walsh improved to 1.6 million with the win.
In an impressive display of good sportsmanship, D'Auria stood up once more to pound fists with the guy who just cleaned out most of his stack. "Good job... right here," he said, with absolute sincerity.
Level: 27
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 5,000
