Bengt Bounced, Juanda Gains Ground
by Court on 10.02.08, 7:24 pm
The domination of Stanislav Alekhin continues. Bengt Sonnert has now been added to the growing list of players put down by Alekhin. Sonnert’s elimination leaves only John Juanda and Ivan Demidov to contend with Alekhin and his massive chip lead.
Alekhin had raised to 70k and Sonnert (left) moved in for a total of 311k. Stanislav called and for the umpteenth time today Alekhin had another player all in and trailing him with his A
8
crushing Sonnert’s A
5. Again his dominating hand help up and Sonnert was sidelined in 4th place for £271,500.
After stopping by asking if he could rebuy a good natured Daniel Negreanu has headed up to the booth and will be participating in the commentating of the final table for the live stream that is avaiable through ESPN360 and Betfairs website. Daniel’s class and true professionalism allow him to go from busting out to 5 minutes later coming back to take photos with fans and then goes from there to commentate the table he just busted from.
John Juanda was able to jump to over 2 million chips and leave Ivan Demidov as the short stack in 3 handed play with a good call on the river. Juanda called from the small blind and Demidov raised from the big blind. Juanda then came over the top for another raise and Ivan called. The flop came K52 and both players checked. WIth the A
on the turn Demidov bet 202k when it was checked to him and John flat called to see the 8 on the river. Again Juanda checked and Ivan bet 333k sending Juanda into the tank on the river. After a while he called and Demidov showed his bluff with the QT. The A9 for Juanda was good to take down the pot and push Juanda’s stack well above that of Ivan Demidov.
After a short break the 3 remaining players will be back to play the 15k / 30k 4k ante level.
Here are what the chip counts look like coming back from break:
Stanislav Alekhin - 4,143,000
John Juanda - 2,335,000
Ivan Demidov - 790,000
