All-In Carter; Kim out in 6th
by Jessica on 01.17.09, 11:17 pm
Both Allen “AawwNutz” Carter (pictured left) and Tyler “Tydean” Smith are having trouble accumulating chips at this final table. As the other four players continue to double each other up, these two have seen very few hands to showdown. Carter’s stack has dipped down low enough so that he is left with little room to maneuver. The last six hands Carter won came as the result of uncontested all-ins. He has managed to work his stack back up over the million chip mark, but he could stand a double up sometime in the near future.
It took nearly 30 hands (i.e. five orbits) before Tyler Smith won a pot and even then he only picked up the blinds and antes. Like Carter, Tyler is hovering right around a 1 million chip stack.
Perhaps Soheil Shamseddin’s arguably reckless aggression is causing Carter and Smith to play a little more cautiously than they would otherwise. He recently doubled up Chuck Kim a second time in the following hand:
With the blinds at 30K/60K ante 10K Chuck Kim raised from under the gun to 170K. It folded around to Shamseddin in the big blind and he put in a reraise to 500K total. Kim instantly moved all-in for 420K more. In a deja vu kind of moment, Shamseddin once again had to think for a minute or two and it seemed as if he had been caught bluffing once again. Eventually Shamseddin decided he couldn’t fold and called with 9
2
which gave him one over to Kim’s 88
. The eights held up and Kim doubled up to the chip lead with 1.9 million chips.
Kim’s reign atop the leaderboard didn’t last long. He and Shamseddin were neck and neck for the chip lead when Chuck raised to 180K from the button and Bobby Suer moved all-in from the big blind for 975K. Kim called with AT
while Suer held AK. Kim picked up a gutshot straight draw on the KJ3 flop, but a queen failed to come on the turn and river and Suer doubled up to 2 million chips.
Kim was left with around 850K after the hand and moved in several times before he and Soheil Shamseddin got it all-in preflop with Kim holding A-K to Shamseddin’s A-9. Kim looked in good shape after the flop and turn came A54T, but a 9 fell on the river to give Soheil two pair and the pot. Chuck Smith earns $105,490 for his 6th place finish.
Here are the chip counts of the remaining 5 players:
Soheil Shamseddin - 3.14 million
Bobby Suer - 2.11 million
Hilbert Shirey - 1.47 million
Tyler Smith - 910K
Allen Carter - 865K
