Youngluc v. Chuck
by Jessica on 01.15.09, 6:23 pm
Arguably one of the most stacked tables in the room boasts a lineup of Danny Wong, Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen, Ryan “youngluc” Young (pictured left), and Shawn “sbuck21″ Buchanan— oh, and the quartet are sitting all in a row. Throw the unpredictable Chuck Kelly in the mix and you have quite the interesting table. First, Rosen made a raise to 2,200 in late position with the blinds at 400/800 ante 100 and Kelly moved all-in from the big blind for 28K total. Jamie thought for a moment before releasing what he said was A-J.
A little while later, Ryan Young raised to 3K from the cutoff and Kelly called from the big blind. Both players checked when the flop came 5
5
4
.. The turn was the A and the players got all their chips in the middle with Kelly holding A6 for top pair and Young having 4
4 for a full house. The river was a blank and Ryan, who started the hand with right around 25K doubled up to just over 50K. Kelly was eliminated shortly after that.
Another player who turned a large profit in an eerily similar situation is another Ryan, Ryan “gutshtallin” Welch. Welch and Peter “Nordberg” Feldman got it all in on a 10-10-4-K with Feldman holding K-Q to Welch’s 4-4. The river was a blank and Ryan eliminated Feldman and built his stack up to 120K.
Jason “JP_OSU” Potter has also crossed the 100K threshold and continues to remain very active at his very tough table. Yosh Nakano raised to 2.5K from early position with the blinds at 600/1,200 ante 200. It folded around to Jason in the big blind, who elected to call. The flop came down Q74, Potter checked, Nakano bet 6K, and Potter called. After the J came on the turn Potter bet out 8.5K and Nakano called. The river was the K and Potter fired once again, this time betting a relatively small 5,200. Nakano thought briefly before calling and quickly mucked his hand after Jason turned over AA.
Some of the other players at the table marveled at his good fortune, but Jason jokingly complained about the scary board noting, “yeah, the run out was really good.” After the hand, he was up to 130K.
Here are some chip counts from the early stages of Level 8:
Hevad “Rain” Khan (pictured right) - 190K
Jason “JP_OSU” Potter - 130K
Jamie “TheCronic420″ Rosen - 125K
Ryan “gutshtallin” Welch - 120K
Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire - 120K
Keven “stamdogg” Stammen - 112K
Stewart “Stuman123″ Yancik - 75K
Ryan “youngluc” Young - 50K
Jordan “scarface_79″ Smith - 68K
Devin “tranquilchaos” Porter - 68K
Barry “barryg1″ Greenstein - 27.5K
As Level 8 continues, we are down to 114 players, but there is still quite a long way to go to get to 27.
