What’s the Plan?
by Court on 10.13.08, 7:56 pm
The schedule for today is up in the air. It has been said to be 7 levels with a dinner break or down to 99. Five levels no matter what. Six levels and no dinner break. Who knows? Well, obviously the tournament officials are keeping their options open, but it seems like the ultimate goal is to get under 100 players today, and it looks like that should be a reasonable number to get to by the end of the fifth level or not too far into the next one.
At the break after the fourth level there were around 120 players left out of the 276 that started the day. After losing 150+ players in 4 levels, dropping another 20 shouldn’t take much more than another hour and a half of play.
Most of the players don’t seem too concerned, with more worried about making sure that Monday Night Football will be showing up on the TVs in the tournament area than the schedule for the rest of the night, though a few have been questioning the floormen in hopes of making dinner reservations were there to be an extended break.
The fourth level was good to Ryan “gotskillz” Fisler (left) and Mike “Timex” McDonald. Fisler is now up to 210k while McDonald has bounced back after dropping below the initial starting stack and is back up to over 100k. Peter “Mr. Motown” Valente was able to add to his stack a bit after his 5k preflop raise was called. On a flop of 5
3
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a continuation bet of 10k, leaving about 25k behind, was enough to win the pot. Valente now has around 50k chips.
