Go Leafs Gone
by Court on 10.23.09, 10:18 pm
When the field dropped to 54 players the table on the stage was broken and Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy, Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista and Markus “LURPED” Gonsalves were all sent around the room to new tables. For Leah the move came right before his demise while the other three are all still hanging in with one level left in play for the day.
On a J
T
8 flop Brandon Cantu moved all in and Leah (right) called off his last 113k chips. The other player in the pot considered the call but decided to fold leaving Cantu heads up with Leah. Brandon had KQ for an open ended straight draw while Leah had top two pair with his J
T. Cantu can do though and easy as that the 9 hit on the turn and the river 4
was no help to Leah sending the pot the way of Cantu. After eliminating Leah it wasn’t long until Cantu moved all in preflop over the top of a raise from Danny Fuhs. Danny made the call with KQ and was racing against Cantu’s pocket jacks. The pair held for Brandon and his stack rocketed up to 700k. While Cantu was going strong, James “mig.com” Mackey was eliminated from the table during the middle of the level.
Big stacks Scott “BigRiskky” Clements and Jason “JCarver” Somerville both had a rough level. Clements and Mark Seif raised back and forth prefllop with Scott at one point making it 62k more to go. Seif called with over 250k behind and on the 972 flop Scott led out for 100k and Seif raised to 260k. Clements quickly folded leaving himself with around the 275k he finished the level with.
For Somerville the last pot at the table cost him a chunk of chips and he is down to 570k. On the turn of a K966 board two players checked and Jason bet 45k. One player called and the other folded leaving Jason heads up on the 8 river. The other player led out for 65k and the clock ran a few minutes into the break before Somerville decided to make the call. He was shown the 96 for a full house and mucked his hand. His 570k leaves him above the 390k average stack but well off of his 950k peak stack.
Vivek “psyduck” Rajkumar (left) has been fighting with a shortstack all day but his stock has risen during the last level and he is up around 250k going into the last level of the night. The blinds will be 4,000 / 8,000 with a 500
The final level will start with 42 players and all that survive the level will return tomorrow at noon to play into the money and complete another full 5 levels or down to 10 players, whichever comes first.
