MrTimCooler
by Brett on 07.07.09, 8:41 pm
What a flop. Unfortunately Steve “MrTimCaum” O’Dwyer came up on the losing end of it. With the blinds at 300/600 O’Dwyer raised to 1.6K and three players called. The flop came T
T
4
and after one player checked O’Dywer led out for 7K. The player to his left raised to 17K and the other players folded. O’Dwyer put in a 3-bet, his opponent moved all in for 59.5K and O’Dwyer snap-called:
O’Dwyer: AT
Opponent: 44
Steve had a stunned expression on his face as he saw what he was up against. The 2 turn and 6
river were no help to him and he was left with around 20K in his stack. Meanwhile, the winning player is reacting as if he just won the tournament by calling media members over and replaying the hand for them. Nobody’s told him he still has 180+ million more chips to collect.
Keven “stamdogg” Stammen increased his stack during the past level and made an enemy at the same time. We didn’t catch the flop action but apparently Stammen called an all in with QT on a K96 board. His opponent had K5 and an 80K pot was on the line. The J on the turn gave Stammen a straight, leaving his opponent drawing dead, and the berating began. “Did that really just happen?” he asked Stammen. “What made you stick your stack in there?” Stammen smiled and responded simply with, “I didn’t think you had it.” Keven is up over 100K at the end of Level 7.
We stumbled upon Isaac “Mr. Menlo” Baron at a nearby table and he was faced with a big decision. The board read 977QJ and his opponent had bet 17K. Baron cut out a call, but stopped to study his opponent. After several minutes he tossed the chips in and his opponent wrapped the table signaling that Isaac was probably good. Isaac showed 75 and his opponent mucked. That pot has Baron above six figures with 120K to his name.
Over in the Orange secion, Chris “cdbr3799″ Dombrowski raised to 1.5K preflop. The player in seat one then moved all in. Dombrowski had around 40K in chips and his opponent had him covered by a few thousand. He thought about his decision for an extended period of time before eventually saying “let’s go” and putting his stack in the middle.
Dombrowski turned over QQ but his opponent had one of the hands he didn’t want to see with AA. The flop came down AK6. The J on the turn gave Dombrowski a little hope, but the river was the 6 and he was eliminated from the Main Event.
Nick “fu_15″ Maimone, who was one of the chip leaders entering play today, called a raise of 2K before the flop with that blinds at 300/600/75. The player in the big blind that re-raised to 6K. The player in seat three folded, exposing his Q9 in the process and Maimone called. The flop was J56. The big blind bet 8.2K with about 17K behind and Maimone called. The big blind checked when the 5 came on the turn and Maimone moved his more than 100K stack all in. The other player called and Maimone found himself free-rolling with his AJ against his opponent’s AJ. The river was the 3, though, and the player split the pot.
One table over Owen “ocrowe” Crowe faced an all-in bet of 19.4K on the turn with the board reading T929. After much thought Crowe made the call and turned over QT. His opponent showed his QT and commended Crowe for his good call. The meaningless river was the 2 and the players chopped the pot. Crowe is still sitting behind a huge chip stack of well over 100K. We’ll get you an exact count when the player head out for dinner in about an hour.
Players have one hour left of play before their dinner break. We’ll have a massive list of chip counts for you then.
