$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low - Day 2 - Level 14 Recap
Jun 25, '08
Note: The players are now on a 60-minute dinner break
Blinds: 2,000-4,000
Players Left: 19 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Martin Klaser - 290,000
Tom Chambers - 230,000
Chad Burum - 212,000
Michael Fetter - 200,000
Derek Kadota - 172,000
Joseph Haddad - 170,000
Larry Wright - 145,000
Ian Graham - 115,000
Gary Hutzler - 87,000
Daniel Klein - 86,000
Average Stack: 113,700
Eliminations:
Ed Smith
Shannon Shorr
Big Hands and Storylines:
The Hunter Becomes The Hunted
Not long after Dan “Stainley88” Adams amassed a stack of 130,000, he would see most of it disappear.
Derek Kadota raised to 11,000 from under-the-gun. Action folded around to Adams in the blind who made it 44,000. Kadota, covered by Adams, called with 60,000 behind. Adams moved all-in on the Q
9
2
flop and Kadota called. The two turned over their hands:
Adams: A
A105
Kadota: AQ102
Kadota was in the lead with two-pair, and his hand held up when the turn and river came 5 and K. That pot lifted “The Ghost” – so nicknamed because his opponents’ chips always seem to vanish (what that has to do with being a ghost I’m not quite sure. Do ghosts have the power to make other objects disappear? I don’t know, I’m just reporting what I was told) up to 240,000.
Adams is now down to 30,000.
Table Draw? More Like Table Unfair!
As the tournament played down to 27, the players were re-drawn to new tables on the other side of the Brasilia Room. The table draw, produced at random, made table 9 the center of the action. Not only were the 4 largest chip stacks assigned to the table, but Erik Seidiel and Shannon Shorr as well. By contrast, not a single player assigned to table 10 had more than 20 big blinds.
No Shorr Thing
Shannon Shorr met a similar fate to Dan Adams, his aces getting cracked in a most painful way. Shorr and Tom Chambers got all of their money in on a Q54 flop. The pot was worth 230,000 and the two turned over their cards:
Shorr: AAK7
Chambers: A853
The turn was the 9, but the river was the crushing 2, giving Chambers a wheel and leaving Shorr with only 5,000. Shorr would be eliminated a short while later when he was rivered again by, what else, a wheel.
Player Tags: Larry Wright, Gary Hutzler, Chad Burum, Michael Fetter, Joseph Haddad, Daniel Klein, Derek Kadota, Shannon Shorr, Tom Chambers, Daniel Adams, Martin Klaser
