Peter Prospers, Townsend Tumbles
by Court on 09.30.08, 2:47 pm
The graph on Peter “#1Pen” Neff’s chip stack over the course of this tournament would start off with a downswing, stay put for a while then start to make a steady rise. Towards the right side of the graph it would spike up quickly, leaving Peter where he is now, which is near the top of the chip counts with 400k.
Peter and Tim “Tmay420″ West both showed exeplary patience on day 1, and while day 2 was better for Peter, West has continued to grind the short into midway through day 3. His grind has brought him to the money bubble where he is still alive and kicking with under 40 players remaining.
Peter (right) was recently able to grab a chunk of chips from Brian “sbrugby” Townsend, who had been sitting on one of the largest stacks for much of day 2 and into day 3. The players were in a battle of the blinds and eac took a turn at betting a street. Peter bet the flop and was called. On the turn Neff checked and it was Townsend’s turn to bet. He did, and Peter called. On the river Neff checked and Townsend bet again, a large bet of 72,000 (roughly pot sized) with the board showing A
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239. Neff then moved all in over the top and caught Townsend with his hand in the cookie jar. Brian folded and Neff added to his stack while leaving the CardRunners instructor a much shorter stack to work with going forward.
Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman doubled through John Juanda and has grabbed more chips off the Full Tilt pro on the money bubble of the tournament. On a Q-T-9-6-5 board with two diamonds on the flop but no more later on Moorman bet 60k into a 100k pot. Juanda folded and Chris continued to gain chips, bringing his stack to just short of 300k.
