Wisbrod Just About Hangs on!
First to act Andrew Lichtenberger opened to 8,000, and action folded round to Barak Wisbrod in the big blind, who decided he was getting the pot odds to call despite only having 10,000 behind.
On a monotone flop of 5♥2♥7♥, Wisbrod checked and Lichtenberger put in exactly 6,000 chips, forcing Wisbrod to go all in or fold. He tanked for a while, laughed at the irony of the situation, and decided that, despite getting almost 6-to-1 odds, this time he decided they weren’t enough for him to call.
The very next hand, Qiang Xu raised to 10,000 from the cutoff, and Wisbrod added his final 4,000 to his small blind, as Lichtenberger defended in the big blind.
At the river, Wisbrod’s A♥4♦ had made a pair of aces, which was good enough to take down the 22,000 main pot, just keeping his hopes of a deeper run alive. Lichtenberger had a pair of sevens, and his Q♠7♠ allowed him to take in the remaining 8,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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200,000
12,000
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12,000 |
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162,500
12,000
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12,000 |
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22,000
38,000
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38,000 |
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