Slow Goings
by Jessica on 12.17.09, 9:54 pm
Action stalled tremendously this past level and the field only lost two players over the course of the past hour and a half. One of those eliminations came at the hands of Matt “AllInAt420” Stout, who eliminated Steve Brecher when Brecher shoved all-in with A-10 and Stout called him with pocket queens. The queens held up and Stout crossed the million chip threshold. He would drop a chunk of those chips to Curt Kohlberg before the level was over though and is now down to 350,000.
There were a few othersbig pots over the course of the level as well. Carter “ckingusc” King (pictured left) had a hard time building up his stack during the early stages of Day 4 play, but he got a much needed double up when he shoved all-in for 300,000 and Curt Kohlberg thought for a minute or two before calling. King’s A
J
was trailing Kohlberg’s AK
, but the J
85 flop favored King and the pair of jacks held to double him up to just over 600,000.
Shawn “buck21” Buchanan is also trending upwards thanks to busting out a player and taking down a big pot against Steven Landfish. The two sparred in a blind versus blind confrontation. We caught up on the action when Landfish checked to Buchanan on a board of K43Q and Buchanan bet out 25,000. Landfish raised to 60,000 total and Buchanan called. The river brought the 9 and Landfish bet out 110,000. Buchanan raised an additional 300,000 and Landfish called, wincing in disgust when Buchanan revealed JT for a rivered king-high straight. Landfish flashed his Q-3 for two pair before mucking and pushed the chips Buchanan’s way. After the hand, Buchanan was up to 1.8 million chips.
Brent “BHanks11” Hanks took a hit to his stack when he called an all-in shove from Josh Arieh on the river with the board reading 98562. Hanks thought a while before calling the additional 250,000 and seemed relatively unsurprised when Arieh showed 7T for the nuts. Hanks still has some chips to work with though, having 450,000 left after the hand wrapped up.
