Harder Doubles, Charania Eliminated
by Court on 09.29.09, 11:25 am
After a rough first level Christian “charder” Harder then found himself all in with the worst of it. A James Akenhead had bet 9,600 on a Q
7
6 flop and Harder moved all in for what was left of his stack. He was called and when the cards were turned up Christian’s T8 was running behind the KQ
of Akenhead.
With the T on the turn Harder picked up more outs and the T on the river kept him in the tournament and gave him a much needed double up. Soon Harder had a majority of his stack in the middle again. On a 4
33 board it looked like the other player bet around 25k and Harder put out what was either a min raise or not much more than that, but interestingly left himself only around 15k left in his stack. The other player folded, giving Harder another nice pot. Christian took a look back at his cards and showed the 5 as he reached to rake in the pot. His stack was at the 150k mark after the hand.
To Harder’s left Jason “treysfull21″ Mercier (pictured right with Harder) took a hit when his flopped set found the larger set of Barry Shulman. After losing the big pot Mercier still has 130k chips and is the tournament leader in amount of 100 denomination chips for sure.
Another table break has sent Justin “Boosted J” Smith and Christian “CKRUEL” Kruel to the secondary feature table to join Daniel Negreanu and Men Nguyen. Negreanu has been able to pretty much set up camp at the secondary feature table, playing there for almost the whole tournament.
Steven “TheZadester” Levy was also at a table that was broken and he has been moved to the third feature table along with Yevgeniy “Atimos” Timoshenko and min cash master Tony Cousineau. The third feature table is well lit and roped off by itself, but there are no hole card cams and the camera crews are only filming some of the time instead of every hand that is being recorded at the two main feature tables.
Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad, Eric “P3achy_keen” Liu and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger are also at a table that is lit for the cameras and are getting some attention from the roving video crews. As the field continues to condense the cameras are able to focus more and more of their attention on the remaining tables.
Mohsin “ChicagoCards1″ Charania (left) was eliminated early in the 1k / 2k 300 ante level. After 3 players came into the pot for 5k each Mohsin raised to 20k from the big blind leaving himself 35k behind. The initial raiser folded and the first caller then moved in over the top. The other player involved folded and Charania called with pocket nines. He was in great position to double up to 130k with his nines against the other players Q9, but a flop of Q-Q-2 left Charania drawing dead instead of doubling up.
Next level: 1,200 / 2,400 with a 300 ante. Around 63 players remain in the tournament and the plan is to play down to 27 players tonight.
