Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Matthew Mercurio, Chris Bjorin and Jorge Arias have all recently been eliminated. Arias got his money in with flopped trips but his opponent made a running spade flush.
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The flop was and Dorlan Schick bet 10,000. Milad Jorshari, raised to 35,000 and Schick moved all in for 120,300. Jorshari called and looked confident until Schick showed . Jorshari flipped over for an inferior overpair. The turn and river brought no help for Jorshari and Schick doubled up.
Jorshari is left with 146,000 while Schick is up to 290,000.
After a very rocky start, it's been a good stretch of post-dinner cards for Mark Seif. He first doubled up against Dash Dudley when his out-flipped Dudley's pocket nines by catching a queen on the turn. The pot gave Seif a closer-to-average stack with about 135,000.
"I guess we decided to play some big pots after dinner," remarked David Sands.
Sands won't have to worry about playing any of those pots. He became Seif's victim a short time later as Seif climbed back to 200,000.
When you hold , your opponent holds , and the flop comes , you're probably going broke -- especially in a six-handed tournament. Tim Adams as the player with ace-deuce; Michael Meyers was the player with ace-nine. Nothing changed by the time the river card was on board.
That hand crippled Adams. Although he survived two more all-ins, he did bust a short time later. Meyers, meanwhile, is up to 385,000.
For many players at this stage of the tournament, all it takes is one pot that goes the wrong way to really de-rail things. David Sands and Kevin Iacofino played one of those pots, with Sands taking the worst of it. Iacofino was all in with ; Sands barely had him covered with . Jacks held to boost Iacofino to 256,000. Sands has just 30,000. He'll need to make a move soon.
Jonathan Duhamel and Samuel Gerber went to war pre-flop, with Duhamel winding up all in. He showed down and ran smack into Gerber's . The tables were turned after a flop of made two pair for Duhamel. He improved to a full house with the turn, but the river fell one of the two remaining aces, , to give Gerber a bigger full house.
"That's too much," he said.
Duhamel probably agreed. He moved off to collect his payout while Gerber moved on in the tournament.
Down to about 60,000 chips, Keith Boudreau moved in on a flop of . Jordan Morgan flopped a double inside straight draw with and quickly called. He filled one half of his straight with the turn and dragged the pot after the river came [9]. Boudreau is out, while Morgan has already doubled his stack since the players came back from dinner.
Team PokerStars Pro Online, Jorge Arias, raised to 7,300 from early position. Feming Chan responded by re-raising to 20,400.
Arias took his eyes off of the NBA game, lifted up his glasses and pushed his stack forward.
"Is that an all in?" Asked Chan.
"No, I still have this," said Arias showing Chan the remaining 1,500 he had in front of him. "I try to never go all in," he added. And go all in he didn't. Faced with a 79,100 4-bet, Chan decided to fold.
Arias now has close to 100,000