$10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em - Day 2 - Level 14 Recap
Jun 16, '08
Note: The players are now on a 20-minute break
Blinds: 2,500-5,000
Players Left: 26 of 218
Chip Leaders:
Andy Bloch - 340,000
Michael Mizrachi - 340,000
Jerrod Ankenman - 330,000
Brock "t soprano" Parker - 325,000
Steve Sung - 303,500
Matt Woodward - 295,000
Eric Froehlich - 245,000
J.C. Tran - 225,000
Aaron Katz - 180,000
Hoyt Corkins - 155,000
Average Stack: 167,700
Eliminations:
Alex Kravchenko - 27th
Tim Kasparoff - 28th
Zachary Hyman - 29th
Big Hands and Storylines:
They’re In The Money
The bubble burst after only 5 hands of hand-for-hand play and the unfortunate bubble boy was Tim Kasparoff. Kasparoff got his money all-in against Tommy Hang in a race-situation: Kasparoff’s 8
8
against Hang’s A
10
. The flop was 432, opening up 4 more outs for Hang, but he wouldn’t need them, as he spiked the 10 on the turn. The river blanked and Kasparoff busted one out of the money.
This was welcome news to both Patrick Bueno and Alex Kravchenko who, seated at the same table, had been blinded down to critical levels. In one hand, Bueno committed 15,000 preflop against Michael Mizrachi and folded to a single bet from “the Grinder” on the flop, leaving himself a paltry 9,000.
Kravchenko too was spendthrift during hand-for-hand play. Folding both his small blind and big blind to raises, the Russian was left clutching a stack of only 6,000 when the bubble burst. Not surprisingly, he was eliminated in 27th place, but I’m sure the $20,492 will be consolation enough after coming so close to busting empty-handed.
Not everybody was trying to crawl into the money. Aaron Katz and Matt Woodward tangled in a big pot a few minutes before hand-for-hand play began. Woodward raised to 10,000 from middle position and Katz called in the big blind. Katz check-raised the J33 flop and Woodward paid to see the turn. It was the K and Katz bet out, though Woodward raised, Katz was not deterred, putting in a third bet. Woodward called, then called another bet on the river 7. He was dismayed when Katz showed A3 and dragged the massive pot.
Woodward would make a bit of that money back later when the flop nailed his Q8. Zachary Hyman, holding JJ, could not lay down his holding on a board of QQ9 and was eliminated in 29th place.
Player Tags: Hoyt Corkins, J.C. Tran, Andy Bloch, Tommy Hang, Michael Mizrachi, Aaron Katz, Brock Parker, Alexander Kravchenko, Matt Woodward, Eric Froehlich, Steve Sung, Patrick Bueno, Tim Kasparoff, Zachary Hyman, Jerrod Ankenman, European Report
