Patience Pays
by Court on 09.29.08, 8:27 pm
After battling all day with a short stack, there has been an upturn for Tim “Tmay420″ West. Coming out of the last break of the day with around 16k it took Tim less than half an hour to run his stack up to 65k. It took a come from behind win with his A-8 all in against the A-Q of Peter Gould to get started, but after that double up the next one came with his pocket kings against pocket sixes.
“It was nice to look down and see kings,” Tim said. “It had been a while.” The kings hand was not all in preflop, but what didn’t go in pre got in on the flop where Tim’s overpair to the board held up against pocket sixes.
Former tablemate Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar ran pocket jacks into Chris Williamsson’s pocket aces and has been eliminated from the tournament. Williamsson has been on a tear, picking up aces and kings, and then more aces, and more aces. In Aguiar’s last hand the two went back and forth raising and reraising till all the chips went in, but by the time Aguiar got a bad feeling he had to much in the pot and too little left to let it go.
Ben Grundy (right) was not far behind Aguiar. After losing a pot to Negreanu, Ben moved in the next hand from the button for 17,400. Daniel thought from the small blind for a minute before saying “I just found these [chips] so I guess I’ll call.” Then before Daniel had his hands off the stack of 17,400 chips the player in the big blind said all in, prompting a “No” from Daniel as he jokingly acted like he was going to take his 17k back.
Once the joking was over Daniel went into math class to make his decision. The other player’s all in represented 36k on top of the 17,400 the three players already had in the pot. He decided he was getting 3 to 1 on his money and pointed out that he had to beat both players. “I can’t be in that good of shape,” Daniel said before somewhat reluctantly folding. Ben then showed the A
3
while his opponent had the AK
. Daniel said he was dominated and on the Q726Q board the AK held up to eliminate Grundy. Daniel said he would also have lost to the AK.
Daniel’s relatively new training site has had a lot of success, but one of the key instructors at the site saw his WSOPE event end late in day 2. Adam “A_Junglen” Junglen (left) and his PokerVT patch have both made their exit from the tourney.
