Table of Certain Doom
A quick little tidbit as play resumes. We've lost six players today, and they've all fallen from Table 2. Now you know.
A quick little tidbit as play resumes. We've lost six players today, and they've all fallen from Table 2. Now you know.
Level: 17
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gary Friedlander | 630,000 | 20,000 |
Matt Waxman
|
280,000 | -15,000 |
AJ Jejelowo | 268,000 | 17,000 |
Scott Lipshutz | 165,000 | -3,000 |
Allie Prescott | 155,000 | 30,000 |
Kunal Patel | 151,000 | -21,000 |
Lawrence Jacobs
|
131,000 | -9,000 |
Harry Cullen | 118,000 | 23,000 |
Allen Kessler | 112,000 | -7,000 |
Shannon Shorr
|
82,000 | -19,000 |
Jeremy Gaubert
|
63,000 | -34,000 |
Jeremiah Vinsant | 60,000 | -6,000 |
That's another level in the books, and the players are off for a 10-minute break.
AJ Jejelowo completed from the small blind, and Kunal Patel knocked the table for a free flop from the big.
The flop came , and Patel called a bet of 4,000. He called another 9,000 after the turn, and another 30,000 behind the river. He had for two pair, but Jejelowo had run him down on the river with .
The better kings-up moves Jejelowo up to about 300,000, slipping Patel back to about 152,000.
Steve Brecher could manage just one double before succumbing to this Day 2.
With 14,800 chips left, he open-shoved with from the cutoff seat, and AJ Jejelowo called him down with from the next seat over. Brecher wishes boards were only four cards deep as it came ... to seal his fate.
All is not lost for Brecher, though, and we'll see him next weekend at the WSOP-C National Championship thanks to his fourth-place finish at the Western Regional Championship in March.
On a flop, action checked to Kunal Patel, and he made a bet of 7,500. Lawrence Jacobs check-raised to 21,000, and Steve Brecher reraised all in for 73,600 behind him. That put the action back on Patel, and he called all in for 60,000, forcing Jacobs to lay his hand down.
Showdown
Brecher:
Patel:
Patel was well in front, and he was pleased to hear that Jacobs also folded ace-ten. The turn and river kept his kings safe, and he's doubled up to 172,000.
It's the second consecutive double that Brecher has donated, and this one cripples him all the way down to just 6,800 lonely chips.
Lawrence Jacobs got his last ~70,000 chips into the pot with , and he was in fine shape as Steve Brecher came along with the . The flop was a relief to Jacobs, and the turn locked up his double. He's back to 140,000 after making kings full, and Brecher falls back to about 80,000.
AJ Jejelowo opened to 6,000 in the cutoff and Prince Gaspard defended his big blind.
The flop came down and Gaspard check-called 10,000 from Jejelowo, leading to the turn. A check in the dark was Gaspard's play before it hit, leading to a Jejelowo bet of 18,000. Gaspard called and dark checked the river. Jejelowo shoved, putting Gaspard to the test for his remaining stack of roughly 17,000. Eventually Gaspard did in fact call, but Jejelowo showed . Gaspard couldn't beat it with his , ending his tournament in 14th place.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
AJ Jejelowo | 245,000 | 63,000 |
Prince Gaspard
|
Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Matt Waxman
|
295,000 | 7,100 |
Scott Lipshutz | 168,000 | 93,000 |
Allie Prescott | 125,000 | -30,500 |
Shannon Shorr
|
101,000 | -17,300 |
Jeremy Gaubert
|
97,000 | -20,000 |
Harry Cullen | 95,000 | -13,600 |
Jeremiah Vinsant | 66,000 | -30,000 |