Kings Into Aces Again
by Court on 10.14.08, 3:33 pm
For the third time in this tournament Ryan “Gotskillz” Fisler has had pocket kings against pocket aces. All three times all (or almost all) the chips went in preflop and each time Fisler has hit a king on the flop. Most recently Fisler was able to eliminate 
Matt “All In at 420″ Stout (left) after cracking Stout’s pocket aces. A super short stacked Will Failla was also eliminated on the hand. Fisler is closing in on 500k chips after sending the two players home.
Mike “Timex” McDonald was able to double through JC Tran when both players made trips on the river. On a board of A
T
67
T and the pot having about 100k in the middle McDonald had his last 68k and the all in button out in the middle in front of him. Tran thought for a while, finally announcing a call that represented the lions share of his chips. McDonald showed the KT
and his king played against Tran’s JT. Tran was eliminated a few hands after losing the pot to McDonald who is now sitting with over 250k chips.
Barry “barryg1″ Greeenstein is down to 110k after losing an all in preflop hand with his AK versus K8 that made a flush. Barry was happy with his original table draw, but his table was broken near the end of the level and he now has a new set of opponents.
Christian “charder” Harder (right) is nowhere to be found in the room and has likely joined the list of day 3 eliminations. Jeff “JSchnett” Schnettler was seen making his exit from the tournament room after his elimination during the second round of day 3 play. In two levels of play 4 full tables have been broken, leaving the field at no more than 63 players remaining going into the third level of the day. The money bubble is approaching quickly, with the top 45 making the money.
A few counts from around the room:
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar - 700k+
Brian “SN8WMAN” Hawkins - 350k
Joe Sebok - 295k
Mike “Timex” McDonald - 250k
Xuan “X2then” Nguyen - 210k
Jason “JP_OSU” Potter - 210k
Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein - 110k
