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Adventures with Aces on the Bubble

Michael Castaldo was just now all in for his tournament life with pocket aces, and got called by a player who had him covered. His opponent had pocket kings, and Castaldo's aces held up. He's up to 600,000 now.

Meanwhile, Christina Renz has been sitting on the short stack for most of the day. Just now she was in the small blind, and the the table folded around to her. She looked down at her hand, then at the 50,000 or so she had remaining.

Before acting, she had a question. If she turned her cards face up, would it kill the hand? The floor was called over, and it was explained that it wouldn't kill the hand, though she'd face a penalty for exposing her cards.

Renz decided against turning her cards over, and shoved her stack in the middle. The big blind folded, and then she showed her pocket aces.

loooooooolz noobs. how the *** can they fold to a chick with 50k in the sb to begin with tho?

because he knew she had aces

07-11-2009 , 07:41 PM

#603

kashmoney

centurion

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 124

Kia Hamadani = Bubble Boy
The bubble has finally burst!

Kia Hamadani was all in for his 500-chip ante as Reed Hensel raised it up to 17,000 from the hijack position. Both blinds made the call.

The flop landed and Hensel fired 20,000 to force folds from the two live players.

Incredibly, Hensel tabled an imaginative , perhaps to the dismay of the remaining 647 players in the room who wanted to burst this bubble. However they didn't need to worry as Kia Hamadani could only find in the hole as Hensel held the lead with his nine-high.

Hensel sealed the deal when the spiked on the turn and followed it up with the on the river to take down the pot.

Kia Hamadani is eliminated as the bubble boy as the Amazon Room exploded into a round of applause and cheers.

Hamadani was then introduced to the room as it was announced that he wouldn't quite go home empty-handed as the WSOP and Jack Link's would pay for his buy-in into the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event!

07-11-2009 , 07:42 PM

#604

Brussels Sprout

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,778

I'd love to see the scenes there as it popped!

07-11-2009 , 07:42 PM

#605

kashmoney

centurion

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 124

what a d-bag for not checking it down with 9-high

07-11-2009 , 07:43 PM

#606

Ragnarok_1er

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 288

Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

Wow, Reed Hensel hates money obviously.

Seemed like a reasonable play to me. Main pot was really small, and if he felt the bubble situation was profitable to him at his table, then it wasn't bad to try to keep it going this way.

07-11-2009 , 07:44 PM

#607

mistergrinch

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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 566

Raising the all-in player on the bubble with 92? WTF??? Nice to know that poker ******ation is not restricted to the low buy-in MTT's, where this is a standard play. This guy deserves a good smacking on general principles imo.

07-11-2009 , 07:44 PM

#608

DrInfinity

newbie

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 49

Ivey will ship this and deserves to with his qualities...

07-11-2009 , 07:44 PM

#609

2slick

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,592

so elky must have chipped up another million or so during that hour long bubble?

07-11-2009 , 07:46 PM

#610

GhostFacedKiller

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ragnarok_1er

Seemed like a reasonable play to me. Main pot was really small, and if he felt the bubble situation was profitable to him at his table, then it wasn't bad to try to keep it going this way.

Or maybe he had got to know the other guy at the table, liked him + was trying to help him survive?

07-11-2009 , 07:46 PM

#611

MDoranD

MDaddyD

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 10,288

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2slick

so elky must have chipped up another million or so during that hour long bubble?

lol there was probably oinly like 7 hands dealt in the past hour

07-11-2009 , 07:47 PM

#612

SleepOnIce

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 139

Quote:

Originally Posted by kashmoney

[x] already posted
[ ] cards

wat

07-11-2009 , 07:49 PM

#613

2slick

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,592

Quote:

Originally Posted by MDoranD

lol there was probably oinly like 7 hands dealt in the past hour

07-11-2009 , 07:52 PM

#614

relderretep

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Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,540

Max Greenwood Eliminated By Kenny Tran
From the cut Max Greenwood moved all in for 86,500. Prahlad Friedman called from the button and Kenny Tran moved all in from the big blind. Friedman then got out of the way.

Kenny Tran: KK
Max Greenwood: QJo

The board came A65K9 giving Tran a set and the pot to eliminate Max Greenwood from the Main Event.

Kenny Tran - 800,000
Prahlad Friedman - 150,000
Max Greenwood - eliminated

wtf is friedman doing there?

chip count must be off

07-11-2009 , 07:54 PM

#615

angry_man

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Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,108

Don't know why Hensel's getting grief. If I was confident my opponents were running scared of the bubble, I'd happily bluff to take down a pretty decent amount of chips. The shorty is *so* short it's almost an irrelevance if he wins or loses.

07-11-2009 , 07:55 PM

#616

DogFace

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Quote:

Originally Posted by relderretep

Prahlad probably had something like 88-TT or AQ.

07-11-2009 , 07:57 PM

#617

Jonesy8

banned

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 176

Quote:

Originally Posted by DogFace

Prahlad probably had something like 88-TT or AQ.

LOL, thanks for the insight.

07-11-2009 , 08:00 PM

#618

relderretep

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its just horrible to call off almost 40% of your stack and then fold with any hand in this position.

he probably had more behind or the all-in was less. wouldnt be the first time that pn reports were a little off.

07-11-2009 , 08:00 PM

#619

sundevilfish

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surprised no one is mentioning that Benyamine is still in it.

07-11-2009 , 08:05 PM

#620

timfbmx

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sundevilfish

surprised no one is mentioning that degenyamine is still in it.

FYP

07-11-2009 , 08:09 PM

#621

Chimpancee that

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Trex313 still going strong 510k

07-11-2009 , 08:09 PM

#622

RadioActive1

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Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,973

Quote:

Originally Posted by sundevilfish

surprised no one is mentioning that Benyamine is still in it.

Full Tilt games will explode if he wins.

Assuming FT can ****ing get their site working

07-11-2009 , 08:10 PM

#623

ChicagoPoker

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,643

Quote:

Originally Posted by phiphika1453

Full Tilt games will explode if he wins.

Assuming FT can ****ing get their site working

srsly.

ivey with 730k confirmed.

07-11-2009 , 08:12 PM

#624

Ragnarok_1er

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 288

Benyamine still in there
+ Patrick Bruel (very famous singer) still in there
+ Estelle Denis (quite famous TV presenter and wife of national soccer team Coach) still in there
+ Elky & Ludovic Lacay chip leaders
+ poker fully legalized in January 2010

= nice potential for a little poker boom here in France