DanDruff Doesn’t Flake Out
by Jill on 06.24.08, 3:42 am
In Event #41, the Mixed Hold’em tournament, play is down to the last two tables after several eliminations. Alex Borteh was one of the latest casualties during one of the Limit Hold’Em rounds. Barteh raised in the cutoff and the big blind made the call. The flop came K
3
2 and the big blind checked over to Borteh, who bet. The big blind raised him. Borteh made the call and the 4 came on the turn.
The big blind bet out, Borteh raised, the big blind re-raised and Borteh capped the action, getting almost all of his chips into the pot. The J
fell on the river and the big blind checked. Borteh threw in his last 8.5K in chips. The big blind made the call and Borteh tapped the table and held his cards face down, ready to throw them into the muck. The big blind flipped over A
T for ace high which was good enough as Borteh mucked his hand and headed to the payout window to collect his $5,688 for his 20th place finish.
Meanwhile, Todd “DanDruff” Witteles was running on fumes in Event #41, the Mixed Hold’em tournament. Down to the two final tables, Todd was looking shy of the average stack of 121K. His 87K stack took a big hit when he tangled in a limit hand from middle position.
The board came KTQ and he engaged with one player in early position that had more than 270K behind him. His opponent bet 10K, Todd raised to 20K, and received a call. After the turn of T, his opponent checked, Todd bet 10K, his opponent raised to 20K and Todd called. The river was the 4 and Todd thought a very long time before folding to his opponent’s bet.
Shortly afterward, Todd kept strong in his resolve, stealing a pot from the button. Concurrently, a sick elimination at the next table over saw pocket sixes run into a flopped king-high flush. When the player was eliminated, Todd remarked that he was definitely the shortest stack in the tournament with 45K.
The next hand, he was in the big blind for 5K, with only 55 seconds remaining in the level. Faced with a raise from a player in early position, Todd grimaced when he looked at his cards and folded. Meanwhile, another player was eliminated and the tournament was down to 16 players remaining. After the level increased and Todd inherited the small blind, he raised to 8K in a no-limit hold’em hand and stole the pot. As he raked in his chips, the small blind promised he’d give him the pot if he could have the next. Todd joked: “As long as I win every other pot, sure!”
Todd continued to remain on life support until he raised under the gun in a no-limit hold’em hand to 8K; he was called by the big blind. The flop came Q85 and the big blind checked. Todd moved all in with his short stack. The big blind made the call with 65 while Todd had 77. The turn came the 7 and rivered the Q, giving him the full house and doubling him up to over 90K.
