Ramage, Tamayo Thriving at Featured Stage
by Brett on 07.14.09, 4:12 pm
The secondary table at the ESPN featured stage is headlined by Jeff Schulman and Leo Margets (the last woman standing), but P5ers Grayson “gray31″ Ramage, Jonathan “driverseati” Tamayo, Scott “Chipless Wonder” Cook and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger are looking to get some quality TV time by chipping up early here on Day 7. Ramage and Tamayo are off to a great start.
With the blinds at 25K/50K Ramage raised to 150K from early position and Lichtenberger and Margets called. The flop brought T
8
3
and Margets checked to Ramage, who bet 200K. Lichtenberger folded and Margets asked Ramage how much he had left in his stack. He counted down 900K and Margets quickly put in a check-raise to 600K. Ramage moved all in and Margets called:
Ramage: 88
Margets: 4
4
Ramage had a stranglehold on the hand and locked it up when the Q hit the river to scoop a pot worth more than 2.5 million. He is now creeping back toward the average.
Tamayo then took a big pot from Schulman on the next hand. Schulman raised preflop from late position and Tamayo called from the button. On the J-T-3 flop, Schulman led out for 225K and Tamayo came along. Both players checked the Q and the dealer flipped over the 9 river. Schulman placed a stack of chips worth 500K into the pot and Tamayo snap-called, tabling KJ for a straight. Schulman mucked and Tamayo increased his stack to around 3.4 million
Craig “craigthedeac” Boyd came into today as the shortest of the 64 chip stacks, but he has already doubled up to put himself back over one million chips. He moved all-in for his last 515K and Miika Puumalainen called from late position. Boyd seemed in good spirits once he realized his QT was live against Puumalninen’s AJ. The ESPN cameras crowded around the table as Craig awaited his fate and even assigned a camera man to film Boyd’s friends on the rail as they loudly screamed for a queen. Their wish was granted as the flop came down Q32. The table began to joke with Boyd that Puumalainen flopped just about every backdoor draw imaginable.
“The four of hearts would be a very bad card for you,” Dennis Phillips said with a laugh. Thankfully for Craig, the turn was not the 4, but it was J giving Puumalainen two more outs. The river was the 6 and Craig’s pair of queens held to double him up to 1.1 million. Meanwhile, Puumalainen was eliminated shortly thereafter.
