Looking for 36
by Court on 03.18.09, 3:26 pm
Day 2 play at the Bay 101 Shooting Star WPR tournament will continue until out of the 145 players that started the day only 36 remain. For day 1 play the levels were an hour long, but for day 2 all levels will be 90 minutes, giving more play as the tournament works towards the later stages. Matt “Claw1980″ Holtzclaw, Anthony “babygrand” Venturini, Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski and Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire all saw their tournaments come to a close during the first level of day 2, with blinds of 500 / 1,000 with a 100 chip ante.
Chris Dombrowski (right) completed from the small blind when the action folded to him and Amit “Amak316″ Makhija raised to 3k. Dombrowski then moved all in and Makhija called off the rest of his 22,500 chip stack. Amit showed the A
Q
and was dominating the A
4 of Dombrowski. Chris had Amit covered, but only by about 4k and when Makhija’s hand held up on the J
98J6 board he was left short stacked and was all in the next hand while Makhija doubled to 45k. Hevad “RainKhan” Khan (left) had raised to open the pot and before they got to the flop both Dombrowski and Paul “uclabruinz” Smith were all in with Khan making the call. Hevad had the AQ and was up against the 88 for Smith and the AJ of the short stacked Dombrowski. The queen high flop gave Hevad the lead in the hand and he help up through the river to eliminate two players and add to his chip stack.
Devonshire was eliminate when his 25k shove over an opening raise from Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania was called. Mohsin’s pocket sevens held up against Devo’s AK and Devonshire was left with the decision of whether to stay in San Jose for another day or head on back to Vegas. Charania later called an all in of around 10 times the big blind and Annie Duke decided to fold her AK, saying his flat call seemed so strong. When she saw Charania’s KQ suited she was irate with him for calling, but seems to have settled down now and the two are quietly sitting side by side with no further discussion of the hand.
Adam “Roothlus” Levy was able to crack aces and eliminate Dan Heimiller when he made two pair on the river and Clayton “Clayton_27″ Newman was able to pick up a small pot calling a turn bet to be able to show down his hand on a AKQA4 board. After the action went check check on the river Clayton’s KJ for a pair of kings was enough to win the small pot and put him around 45k in chips.
