Bronze Section Eliminations: McClung, De Maci and Cheong Are Out
A quick skirt around the Bronze Section of the Brasilia Room reveals three notable eliminations. Chris McClung was eliminated in rather unfortunate circumstances. He managed to get it in good on a board of holding versus , but his opponent spiked an on the river to send the Canadian packing.
Chris De Maci was the recent runner-up to our first ever Japanese World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Naoya Kihara. That event was Event #34: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Six Handed and De Maci earned $316,308 for that close shave. He was extremely short when we last did a swoop and can confirm that he has been eliminated in the two-card version of things.
A final notable who is no longer spraying chips around is the cheeky-chappie known as Joseph Cheong. He was eliminated by Steven Karr who now has 30,000 chips - more than anyone else in the Bronze section - and it was a barnstormer of a hand.
We believe that Karr opened to 425 from early position and both Liv Boeree and Mathew Frankland called before Joseph Cheong three-bet from the button making it 1,350. The player in the small blind moved all-in for approx. 4,000, Karr also moved all-in and Boeree and Frankland (pocket tens) both folded.
Karr | |
Cheong | |
Small Blind |
So a cooler for all and after five communities were hung, drawn and quartered Cheong and the small blind were out, whilst Karr moved up to 30,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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|
30,000 | |
Evan Schwartz | 28,000 | |
Craig McCorkell
|
20,000 | 12,000 |
Salman Behbehani | 20,000 | 12,000 |
Dennis Phillips | 18,000 | 6,000 |
Tom McCormick | 16,000 | -6,000 |
Bruno Lopes
|
13,000 | 1,400 |
Michael Eiler | 12,400 | 7,700 |
Liv Boeree
|
12,300 | 5,800 |
Pius Heinz | 11,700 | 440 |
Bryan Piccioli
|
11,000 | |
Scott Montgomery
|
10,000 | 6,300 |
Koen De Visscher | 10,000 | |
Leo Margets
|
10,000 | 1,500 |
Mihai Manole | 9,000 | 2,000 |
Mike Leah
|
7,400 | -600 |
Sam Holden | 6,800 | 300 |
Mathew Frankland | 6,600 | -4,860 |
Foster Hays
|
6,200 | -2,300 |
Jason DeWitt
|
6,000 | -3,000 |
Kristijonas Andrulis | 6,000 | 1,600 |
Aaron Jones | 5,200 | -1,800 |
Joseph Cheong
|
Busted | |
Chris De Maci | Busted | |
Chris McClung | Busted |