Thursday, January 20, 2011

Event 1: Huge hands, huge pots!

$500 + $60 Deep Stack NL (2 Re-entry)

Robert Boyko ran his pocket Kings into the pocket Aces of Kevin Johnson (Bridgewater, NJ).   The aces held and Kevin pulled the pot, chipping up to about 1.225 million.  Robert finished in 91st place ($1,142).

Jason Dominici and Eric Rappaport

On the next table over, Jason Dominici raised from the button, Eric Rappaport re-raised from the small blind, Jason 4-bet, and Eric 5-bet-shoved for over 500k total.  Jason took a few moments to deliberate, then made the call.  Eric tabled an un-impressive K8 offsuit.  Jason was ahead with AJ suited.

The flop came 9 4 3 and changed nothing.  Then a King hit the turn, giving Eric top pair and the lead.  Jason needed a 3-outer Ace on the river to win.  River was a 9, however, and Eric doubled up to over 1.1 million.  Jason, who started day two as the chip leader, was left with less than 100k and busted out soon after in 90th place ($1,285).

Joshua Supsak (Linwood, NJ) is up to 1.4 million and may be the chip leader.

At the end of level 20, 88 players remained.  They're taking a ten minute break.