WSOP 2008
Robbins Busts Kravchenko, May Takes Hit
by AdamJ on 06.10.08, 4:35 pm
With 759 players turning out 1.5k PLO WSOP Event #19. The PLO prize pool was a likely beneficiary of there not being any NL tournaments starting today as many NL players that would have likely entered a NL event played in this tournament.
Tim “TMay420″ West, who final tabled the 5k NL Shootout days ago, is going to have to battle back to make Day 2 thanks to a tough hand.
On a board of 9
3
5
Q5
, May’s river raise got reraised behind him and his 99 lost to QQ, bringing May’s stack down to 1800.
P5er Jamie “TheNew” Robbins (pictured right) benefited from a runner-runner draw out to bust a short stacked Alex Kravchenko.
With blinds at 50-100, Robbins opened to 300 from middle position and Kravchenko re-raised. Robbins put Kravchenko all-in, who started the hand with 900.
Robbins tabled QKT9, chasing Kravchenko’s AA55.
Kravchenko appeared to be doubling up when the flop came 637 until the 5 and 8 dropped making a backdoor straight for Robbins, who’s stack increased to 6200.