Kevin MacPhee has just lost the majority of his stack in a hand with Brian O'Donoghue.
There was already 68,000 chips in the middle by the time the flop came into view. MacPhee was in early position and O'Donoghue on the button. MacPhee was in the tank and the next thing we knew, MacPhee had check-shoved, was called and the cards were on their backs and the players were all in.
When the stacks were counted, MacPhee had O'Donoghue covered by only 22,000 chips, or three big blinds.
MacPhee:
O'Donoghue:
MacPhee needed to spike a six to win the hand, otherwise he faced the prospect of handing over almost all of his stack. The turn was the and the river the , gifting O'Donoghue the hand and the huge pot.
Robert Bonneau opened to 16,000 from middle position only to see the small blind shove and RusselL Crane to re-shove over the top of that. Bonneau folded, leaving Crane's to fight it out with .
Crane lost this fight as the board ran . Crane still has almost 200,000 chips, though.
Kevin MacPhee, still reeling from the hand that decimated his stack, moved all in for 21,000 from under the gun. Erica Lindgren called from the next seat over and Thomas Lutz raised to 40,000 a couple of seats over. Lindgren called and the dealer put the first three community cards into view.
Flop: - Lindgren checked, Lutz bet and Lindgren folded.
MacPhee:
Lutz:
MacPhee was ahead with his pair of eights and that's the way it stayed as the turn and river completed the board.
Brian O'Donoghue opened to 16,000 in the cutoff and Michael Perrone called from the button.
The flop contained more spades than a gravedigger's shed, but would it be the flop that killed off the tournament life of one of these players? O'Donoghue fired a continuation bet of 21,000 only to see that bet matched and raised by an additional 46,000. O'Donoghue then moved all in and Perrone wasn't prepared to pay that price and he folded.
Yun Lo opened the preflop betting with a 20,000 raise from early position and when the action passed to Daryl Katz in middle position, Katz three-bet to 45,000. Lo called and the pair shared a flop.
Lo moved all in for 111,500 and Katz made the call. Lo showed for top pair, Katz the for a lesser pair. The turn and river completed the board and left Katz nursing a short stack.
The action folded to Yun Lo in the cutoff and he opened to 22,000. There was a dead button because of the elimination of Daryl Katz so Barny Boatman was next to act from his seat on the small blind.
Boatman moved all in and Lo folded, showing the as he did so.
"Nice hand," said Lo.
"it was a very nice hand," replied Boatman, "You'd have had to hit two cards!"
Erica Lindgren has been eliminated leaving Jamie Kerstetter as the last female player in Event #49.
Lindgren was all in preflop with for 62,000 while Taras Kripps and Micahel Perrone were also all in. Kripps and Perrone held and respectively, and they chopped the pot as the board ran .
flop came into view. MacPhee was in early position and O'Donoghue on the button. MacPhee was in the tank and the next thing we knew, MacPhee had check-shoved, was called and the cards were on their backs and the players were all in.
and the river the 
, gifting O'Donoghue the hand and the huge pot.
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. Crane still has almost 200,000 chips, though.
for top pair, Katz the 
for a lesser pair. The 
turn and 
river completed the board and left Katz nursing a short stack.
as he did so.
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