Championship Day 2 | 2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5

Feb 25, 2007

Carl Olson Eliminated

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Steve Brecher catches a two-outer to eliminate Carl Olson.

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Feb 25, 2007

Paul Darden Eliminated

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Crispin Leyser busts Paul Darden and doubled through Barry Greenstein on the same hand. Leyser flopped a set with {Q-Hearts}

, while he busted Paul Darden's {A-Diamonds}

and doubled up against Barry Greenstein's {K-Clubs}

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Feb 25, 2007

Kristy Gazes More than Doubles to 103K

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Kristy Gazes makes a big hand.

You can view this entire hand using our "Hand in Depth" feature. Click on the link at right.

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Feb 25, 2007

Bodog Ari

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Alan Engel is our new chipleader accumulating chips paw over paw.

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Feb 25, 2007

....and Minneapolis Jim Meehan continues to entertain. When his BB is raised 5X, he ponders and offers:
"Well let's see:
-I have the second best hand with my Jacks;
-I am out of positon;
-and I am covered 2 to 1;
this seems like an appropriate fold and after that insightful analysis, I will do just that---fold."

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Feb 25, 2007

Close the Book on Mike the Mouth

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Mike Matusow has been eliminated.

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Feb 25, 2007

No King For The Bing(er)

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The money goes in after the turn, with the board reading {J-Hearts}

Michael Binger shows {J-Clubs}

for Jacks Full. His opponent shows {Q-Diamonds}

, and is thinking one of his two heart outs, which he calls for. But the river is the {K-Diamonds}

, and Binger's jacks full is suddenly trumped by his opponents Kings full of Queens. Binger takes a 20k hit, but still has a solid stack.

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Feb 25, 2007

Presto No Goot for Young Pham

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on a flop of {9-Spades}

, Young Pham moved in, and was called immediately by his opponent, who held {J-Hearts}

. As Young was making his 'walk of shame', he said (to no one in particular) "Does this mean I can say "f**k" now??" Yes, Young....yes you can.

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Feb 25, 2007

Ted Forrest Giving Lessons

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After laying down a hand to Ted, a player asked if Ted would have folded to an all-in bet. Ted said no. The player asked if the bet had been pre-flop; Ted said yes. Then the discussion moved to when to make the move with the semi-short stack and Ted was more than willing to open the school and discussion the various times to make the short stack move. The lesson ended with another player at the table offering:

"But none of that applies to today."

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Feb 25, 2007

Lights, Camera, Action

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After a long 12 hour day yesterday highlited by player's napping and being reserved and polite. Today we have some action. Minneapolis Jim Meehan is holding court at this table with topics like:

Really bad players who have become good.
How much Jim himself has lost of his game.
Why he played this event: "Phil Hellmuth is on a plane to Europe."
Why he plays at all: "A question I have asked myself for year."

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