Chainsaw Riding The Roller Coaster
It has been quite an interesting few minutes for Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler. He came into the day fairly short with 34,000, and has just played a series of hands that has seen his stack move up and down like a seesaw.
The first hand was a big double up for Kessler. He got it all in preflop holding 
, and was up against the 
of his opponent. The board ran down 
, and Kessler won the race to get up to 70,000. "I needed that one," he said after the hand.
"Well I just lost it all," Kessler told us just a few minutes later. We walked over and saw that Kessler was all in against two other shorter stacks on an action packed flop of 
.
Opponent 1: 
Opponent 2: 
Kessler: 
According to the table, opponent 1 open shipped on the flop, and Kessler shoved behind him. Unfortunately, his second opponent had woken up with a set that turned into quads on the turn, the 
. The meaningless river was the 
, and after that pot, Kessler was down to just 3,000.
He has not gone quietly into the night yet though. Two hands after that, Kessler doubled when his 
held against his opponents 
on a board that ran down 
.
"I'm all in again," Kessler said a few hands later. This time, he held 
and was up against the 
of his opponent. Again, Kessler managed to fade a ton of outs, as the board came down 
.
After being down to just one and a half big blinds a few minutes, Kessler is back up to 20,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000
10,000
|
10,000 |