Sowers Stack Slides Up and Down
by Crystal on 06.01.08, 3:21 am
Sowers seems to be running into hands against the same people, with both good and bad results.
Sowers bet 100k after a flop of A
JT
and after thinking for a while Eli Elezra raised to 300k putting Sowers all in. Sowers quickly called and tabled his K
Q for a flopped straight while Elezra held A5 for a pair of aces. The turn was the Q giving Elezra a flush draw, but the river was the 8 shipping the whole pot to Sowers.
In another confrontation between Sowers and Elezra, Sowers called Elezra’s preflop raise of 35k. The flop came 6-3-2 and Elezra bet out 45k. Sowers raised enough to put Elezra all in and after thinking about it for a bit Elezra called. Sowers showed 6-4 for a pair of sixes with a gushot straight draw which was behind to Elezra’s A-6. Fortunately for Sowers, the turn brought a 5 giving him a straight and the meaningless 3 on the river sent Elezra to the rail.
Kathy Liebert raised all in preflop and Sowers happily called showing his pocket aces against Liebert’s pocket kings. The 8
65 flop was harmless, but on the turn the K spiked putting Liebert in the lead. The 9 on the river was no help to Sowers and Liebert took the 375,000 pot.
In another hand, the board read 6426A and Sowers called Liebert’s bet on the river and mucked his hand when she turned over AQ. That 150,000 pot pushed Liebert’s stack over 500,000 as Sowers slipped to 840,000.
