David Cai Poker Tournament Updates

Final Table Update: David Cai Eliminated In 5th Place, Murphy 4th

Jun 16, '10

Blinds: 40,000-80,000 with a 10,000 ante

Players Remaining: 3 out of 3,289

Average Chip Count: 3,289,000

Tournament Leaderboard:

1. Kiet Tran – 2,700,000
2. Jeffrey Tebben – 2,525,000
3. J.D. McNamara – 1,725,000

Notable Eliminations:

5. David Cai — $119,410
4. Denis Murphy — $162,568

Big Hands:

David Cai Eliminated In Fifth Place ($119,410)

David Cai moved all in for his last 890,000 from under the gun. Action folded around to J.D. McNamara in the big blind and he made the call.

Cai turned over K8 but was dominated by McNamara’s AK.

The board ran out K7268 and Cai was eliminated.

Denis Murphy Eliminated In Fourth Place ($162,568)

Denis Murphy raised to 190,000 from under the gun and Jeffrey Tebben called from the button. The flop came down K52 and Murphy led out for 320,000.

Tebben made the call and the turn was the 4. Murphy moved all in and Tebben made the quick call, turning over A3 for a straight. Murphy had outs though as he turned over AQ for the nut flush draw.

But the 2 river sealed his fate and he was out.

Player Tags: David Cai

$2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Level 13 recap

Jun 08, '08

Blinds-Antes: 1,500-3,000-400

Players left: 64 of 1,397

Average chip stack: 109,100

Chip leaders:

Dean Bui - 380,000
Theo Tran - 270,000
Vanessa Selbst - 240,000
Jason Mercier - 165,000
Jason Manson - 144,000
Greg Sellgren - 130,000
Anthony Phillips - 128,000

Eliminations:

Lee Watkinson

Big hands:

Selbst multitabling

Vanessa Selbst is playing the women's tournament in addition to this tournament, and recently her two tables were side-by-side. It led to an interesting few minutes before the women's event went to a break. One hand, she held A-K and eliminated David Cai, who had A-Q. Then she hustled over to her table in the women's event to see one last hand before that tournament's break. Then she came right back, saying there was no way she was going to pass on playing from the button position.

Later, after she moved to a new table in this event, she got in a blind vs. blind battle with Steven Merrifield. Merrifield raised from the small blind to 9,000 and then Selbst reraised to 29,000. Merrifield quickly moved all in for another 123,600 chips. Selbst took a minute to think it over, and ultimately folded. After the hand Merrifield had over 180,000 chips, while Selbst dropped to around 240,000 chips.

Mercier takes a hit

From the big blind, Jason Mercier raised to put Matthew Brown all in. Brown called and flipped over two black aces, crushing Mercier's A-2. The board came AT976 and Brown doubled up to about 40,000 chips. Mercier now has 150,000 chips.

de Best bests MrCasino

Pete de Best was all in and in bad shape with A-Q against Craig 'MrCasino' Gray's pocket aces. But he managed to end up with a straight and double up. de Best recently doubled up again and has over 60,000 chips, and Gray has about 70,000 chips.

Player Tags: David Cai,   Craig Gray,   Vanessa Selbst,   Jason Mercier