Right as Freddy Deeb was getting knocked out we also lost Matthew Rasco to Greg Mueller in a razz hand.
Mueller: / /
Rasco: / /
After some fast action Rasco got his last chips into the pot and Mueller tabled his . The action was going so fast that we didn't quite catch in what order Rasco got his cards, but he showed for a ten-nine-eight-four-three. By the looks of it Mueller caught the on the end, but it didn't matter as his eight-six-five-four-three was the best hand.
Mueller is our chip leader while Rasco busts in 18th.
A short-stacked Freddy Deeb got all in preflop after Joseph Couden had opened with a raise.
Showdown
Deeb:
Couden:
The flop gave Deeb a pair of kings, while the turn imrpoved him to two pair. Unfortunately for him, the would spike on the river to give Couden a straight and the win.
Mikal Blomlie had the bring-in with a and cleared the field to a short-stacked Jerrod Ankenman, who promptly raised. Action was back on Blomlie and he decided to raise after seeing that Ankenmann had just 6,900 behind. The latter made the call and was at risk.
Ankenman: / /
Blomlie: / /
Ankenman was excited for a moment when he made a J-10-9-7-4 low, but then noticed Blomlie made a J-8-5-3-A low to win the pot. Ankenman's bid to win this event for the second time in four years comes up short as he becomes our 20th-place finisher.
Barry Greenstein was knocked down to just a few chips when his final hand came around. Stephen Su and Konstantin Puchkov both did their best knocking out the tripple bracelet winner.
Barry Greenstein
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Konstantin Puchkov
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Stephen Su
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Su brought it in with the and action got folded all the way to Puchkov who made the call. Greenstein moved all in for 7,600 total and both players called.
Puchkov and Su checked it down to sixth street when the Russian bracelet winner put in a bet. Su folded and Puchkov showed he wasn't there yet with . Greenstein showed and was still drawing live. Puchkov hit the and Greenstein turned over the on seventh street.
Puchkov made a jack-seven-six-five-four against Greenstein's jack-nine-seven-five-deuce. Puchkov regains some ground while Greenstein is out the door.
In a big Razz hand we just lost Tim Burt. When we got to the table the hand was already on seventh street and Christopher McHugh turned over the winning hand. McHugh is our new chip leader while Burt goes home in 22nd place.
Action folded to Kevin Calenzo in middle position and he raised to 12,000. David "ODB" Baker was in the small blind and three-bet to 24,000, which inspired Calenzo to commit for 28,100 total. Baker made the call and the cards were tabled:
Showdown
Baker:
Calenzo:
Baker held the best hand when the chips went in, but lady luck favored Calenzo as the board ran out , giving him two pair and the double.
We got the details after the fact, but we can confirm that Steve Sung has been eliminated in 23rd place. It happened in a hand of Stud against Michael Chow when the money went in on fifth street.
Sung: /
Chow: /
Sung had a big hand with a good draw, but he'd fail to improve while Chow would catch a to make jacks and nines.
ssung41585 Steve SungBusted in 23rd place in stud with buried QhQd with 10h9h8h as up cards vs. buried 99 with AdJd10c up cards and he catches a Js to beat me...June 21 2012
Right as the massive pot between Matt Hawrilenko and David Baker was going on we missed most of the action in another massive one, between Greg Mueller and Matthew Rasco.
Greg Mueller
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Matthew Rasco
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Unfortunately we missed the action, but with a ton of chips in the pot Mueller was facing a bet on sixth street. He seemed disgusted already, and made the call.
Seventh street was dealt down and Rasco bet. Without looking at his final card Mueller called while he was pointing out how sick it was. Rasco turned over and pointed out he started rolled up.
"Oh, that's sick! I got a shot now," Mueller said as he now started to sweat his final card.
"You can't win!" Mueller shouted in excitement as he flipped over for a bigger full house. Rasco was disgusted, as he saw his full house got beaten by Mueller's nines full of tens. Rasco wondered why Mueller just called the river and he said that he was never going to raise since Rasco's hand looked so strong to him.
Rasco is short once again while Mueller climbs up the leader board. Afterwards Mueller told us he hit a ten on seventh street and had trip nines on fifth street.
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. The action was going so fast that we didn't quite catch in what order Rasco got his cards, but he showed 
for a ten-nine-eight-four-three. By the looks of it Mueller caught the 
on the end, but it didn't matter as his eight-six-five-four-three was the best hand.
flop gave Deeb a pair of kings, while the 
turn imrpoved him to two pair. Unfortunately for him, the 
would spike on the river to give Couden a straight and the win.
and cleared the field to a short-stacked Jerrod Ankenman, who promptly raised. Action was back on Blomlie and he decided to raise after seeing that Ankenmann had just 6,900 behind. The latter made the call and was at risk.
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- Fold
. Greenstein showed 
and was still drawing live. Puchkov hit the 
and Greenstein turned over the 
and pointed out he started rolled up.