Little Busts Newman, Final Table Set
by Court on 11.10.08, 5:41 pm
On the brink of a Mike Matusow blowup, Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little was able to eliminate Anthony Newman and end play for the day. Matusow had just doubled up Charles Marchese for a significant chunk of his stack, but before Mike was involved in any more pots Little was able to finish off the short stacked Newman and send the remaining six players to the televised final table.
The hand that cost Matusow chips started with Marchese raising to 120k (blinds were 20k / 40k with a 4k ante) and Matusow coming over the top for a total of 360k. Marchese then moved in for what ended up being an additional 470k more and Matusow took a moment or two before calling with his pocket tens. Like he feared, he had ran into a bigger pair and his tens were up against the pocket queens of Marchese. The kings held up and Charles was able to take down a big pot and leave Matusow with only about half the chips he had to start the hand. Marchese is up over 1.5 million after the double up while Matusow drops to below a million with around 800k in chips.
Two hands after Marchese doubled there was another all in, this time with Jon Little (left) having Anthony Newman all in preflop. Little had the K
Q and was up against the pocket fours of Newman. A queen on the flop did the trick for Little, and Newman found himself the unfortunate TV table bubble boy, though he will receive $85,283 for his 7th place finish.
This will be the fourth World Poker Tour final table for Little, who came onto the live scene with a 5th place finish in the WPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January of 2007 and went on to win the Mirage WPT and finish 2nd to Scott “BigRiskky” Clements in the North American Poker Championship all in the same year.
Here is how the final 6 stack up going into tomorrow’s final table play:
Jon Jaffe - 4,131,000
David Pham - 2,038,000 (right)
Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little - 2,021,000
Charles Marchese - 1,718,000
Jack Schanbacher - 1,592,000
Mike Matusow - 816,000
