Montgomery Turns The Nuts, Big Names Bust With Big Pairs
by Court on 09.27.08, 10:57 am
As the first level came to a close Soctt “R_A_Y” Montgomery was able to pick up a nice pot to get back over the 20k starting stack. After a player limped from under the gun, Montgomery put in a small raise to 275 chips. The action folded back to the limper who called.
On the A
Q
7 flop it was checked to Montgomery (left). Scott bet a 500 chip and before it had settled onto the felt the other player had his purple 500 chip in the middle to make the call. With the T
turn the action was again checked to Montgomery and this time he bet 1,200 leaving himself exactly 14,000 behind. The call again came quickly from the other player.
The 2 river card brought yet another check from the first player and Scott put out 4 yellow chips for a 4k bet, leaving himself only his two orange 5k chips behind. This time the other player was not so quick in making his decision. After counting chips and arranging stacks for a few moments the player finally splashed the pot with eight of the 500 chips to make the call. Montgomery instantly turned over the KJ for a turned straight to take the pot and build his stack to 21,50 going into the first break of the day.
The tournament field will take a 20 minute break and then return to the tables to play the 100/200 blind level for the next two hours.
Early eliminations include Dan Heimiller, David Benyamine, and Howard Lederer. The three players all busted with big pairs: queens for Heimiller ran into kings with the chips going in on the flop. Benyamine ran kings into aces with the chips going in on a 6 high flop. Lederer’s bust came while he was holding pocket aces, with the players ending up all in on a 9-6-3-7 board against Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman who had a set of sixes.
