Reunited
by AdamJ on 07.13.08, 3:13 am
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki and Peter “number1pen” Neff can’t seem to get enough of each other. If you’ve been following our coverage throughout the Main Event, you may recall that both Klodnicki (pictured left) and Neff were seated at Day 2A’s Table of Doom together. They have been reunited as a result of the latest table redraw and spent the last level of play seated in the 9 and 7 seats respectively.
Both have also chipped up during this last level. First, Neff raised to 65K on the button with the blinds at 12K/24K ante 3K and the player in the small blind called. The flop came down 9
7
3 and the small blind checked. Peter contemplated his options before moving all-in. The other player thought momentarily and called with AQ
. Neff turned over 89 for top pair with a flush draw and, when the turn and river came 97
, he eliminated the player, known as Cedric the Realtor, and increased his stack to over one million chips.
Despite having somewhat of a turbulent day where his stack went up and down, Neff scooped a solid hand right before the bell on the last hand of the night.
Action was folded around to the big blind who raised to 66k. Neff re-raised out of the big blind to 208k and his opponent called. Neff shoved all-in on the 652 flop and his opponent folded.
Neff later told Pocketfives that he had the QQ.
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki doubled up when James McManus raised to 65K in middle position and Chris reraised to 185K. When it folded back around to McManus he bet enough to put Klodnicki all-in. Chris, who had a million chips behind, thought for some time before he called with JJ. McManus held QT. Klodnicki managed to dodge a queen as the board ran out A645A and double up to 2.5 million chips.
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman joined the table with Neff and Klodnicki toward the end of the night but did most of his damage at his first table coming back from the dinner break. Beckman called a preflop raise of 72K by Alexander Kostritsyn on the button and the two saw a flop heads up. It came T64 and Kostritsyn checked to Beckman, who bet 90K. Alexander then moved all in for nearly 300K more and Garrett went into the tank for five minutes. He eventually made the call with 77 and had to dodge six out against Kostritsyn’s AK. The turn and river brought the 2 and J, shipping a pot of more than 800K to Beckman and increasing his stack to 2 million.
With 79 players remaining and the average stack at 1.73 million, here’s a list of some P5′ers left:
David “Raptor517″ Benefield - 2.49 million (right)
Chris “SLOPPYKLOD” Klodnicki - 2.4 million
Jonathan “therookieqq9″ Plens - 1.9 million
Garrett “GBecks” Beckman - 1.86 million
Peter “number1pen” Neff - 1.275m
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe - 950k
Adam “Roothlus” Levy - 767k
Jeremy “thechemist83″ Gaubert - 578k
