That Was Easy
by Court on 04.22.09, 4:57 pm
The day got off to a great start for Jimmy “Gobboboy” Fricke but it didn’t take longs for things to take a turn for the worse. Jimmy got an early double up when his AK outran the pocket jacks of Christian “charder” Harder but in a role reversal a little later in the level Harder was the one doubling up through Jimmy with his AK beating Jimmy’s pocket jacks. That left Fricke short stacked and he was all in with QJ against Harder’s pocket deuces. The deuces made a set on the flop and Fricke went from an early double up to an early elimination.
Of the 52 players that started day 4 Fricke wasn’t the only early elimination. Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista (left) moved all in over the top of a 28k opening raise from Bruno Fitoussi and Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson moved in over the top covering Batista’s 400k and Bruno’s remaining stack as well. Bruno folded and Marco and Batista were left heads up and all in in the classic race situation. Marco had the AK and Chad had pocket queens. Marco flopped a king and was able to bust Batista while his stack grew to just over 1 million chips.
Brian “tsarrast” Rast was able to take a few of Marco’s chips when he won a race with pocket nines against Marco’s AK to double up. The double put Rast around 400k and dropped Marco back down to rougly 800k chips.
After busting Fricke early on Christian Harder continued his climb and took over the top spot in the chip counts after busting Michael DeMichele in a set over set situation. All the chips went in on the J-9-3-4 turn where Harder had a set of jacks and DeMichele had turned a set of fours. After the hand Harder was atop the chip counts with over 1.7 million in chips.
Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis (right) is down to 1.5 million after doubling up a short stacked Boris Becker. His 1.5 million still puts him near the top of the chip counts going into the second level of play for the day with blinds of 6k / 12k and a 2k ante. With the field down to 54 players there will be a redraw for new seats after the break but at his starting table Billirakis was witness to Jeff Madsen bad beating Quinn Do out of the tournament.
Madsen and Do ended up all in preflop with Quinn holding pocket jacks while Jeff abashedly turned over his AJ offsuit with the A
. Two diamonds on the flop, another on the turn and another on the river gave Madsen a flush and eliminated Quinn Do. After do had exited the table Billirakis tossed the Staples “That Was Easy” button he had sitting in front of him over to Madsen. Madsen was reluctant to push the button at first but another player pressed it for him and the button spoke the “That Was Easy” phrase. After a brief moment of shyness Madsen got into the spirit and hit the button a couple of times himself.
Easy probably wouldn’t be the way Yevginey “Atimos” Timoshenko would describe his run in with Nenad Medic. On a board with two aces on it Timoshenko was faced with a river bet from Nenad. He finally called with his A9 for trips with a weak kicker and Nenad mucked his hand after saying what sounded like “jack high.” Timoshenko cracked the 700k chip mark after winning the pot.
