6-Handed Tournament: Italians Making Runs
Jun 17, '08
Blinds/Antes: 800-1,600 with ante of 200
Players Remaining: 57 of 1,012
Average Chip Stack: 88,772
Chip Counts:
Alon Shahar: 264,100
Dario Minieri: 191,600
Justin Filtz: 180,200
Randall Brueckner: 131,100
Frank Rusnak: 127,800
Michael Skomac: 123,700
Ed Fernandez: 121,800
Andrew Emory: 121,400
Cory Albertson: 120,000
Brendan Keenan: 119,100
Eliminations: Robert Lipkin, Russ Floyd, Paul Foltyn, Roy Vandersluis
Big Hands and Storylines:
Walk the Plank
The Italian Pirate, Max Pesactori, called a bet of 2,500 on a flop of 10
3
3
. Both he and his opponent checked the 5
turn card, then Pescatori led out 10,000 on the 4 river. His opponent called and angrily showed J-10 after Pescatori showed K-3 for a winning set.
"What could I do?"
Action has been fast and furious thus far on day 2 of the no-limit hold'em six handed tournament. Within minutes of its start Paul Foltyn got his remaining 20,000 in chips all in and was called by John Chou. Foltyn showed 66 and was dominated by Chou's 99. The board ran Q-J-8-Q-A and Foltyn was gone.
After the hand he defended his play, saying, "What could I do? He's over there with six million..." pointing to the ever-aggressive Dario Minieri seated at his table with a big stack.
Welcome to the Table
A few hands later, Shannon Shorr joined Minieri's table. The two tangled immediately. In Shorr's first hand, Minieri raised to 4,600 from the button and the player in seat 6 made the call, as did Shorr. The flop came QJ3, seat 6 checked and Shorr bet out 10,000. Both Minieri and seat 6 folded and Shorr was off to a good start at his new table.
Ease Off the Trigger
News flash: Dario Minieri likes to pull the trigger. After John Chou raised, Minieri reraised up to 10,000. Chou grabbed stacks of chips and reraised again 40,000 more. Minieri asked for a count of Chou's remaining chips and went into the tank- so long in fact that another player called "clock." With the final ten seconds being counted down Minieri finally pushed his cards away and mucked, deciding to pick a better spot.
He has also been chatting with Shorr about Italy's recent football (soccer) success.
Chen Let's Go
Bill Chen raised to 4,500 and both Alon Shahar, chipleader at the start of the day, and the player in seat 6 made the call. The flop came J103 and all three players checked. On the 8 turn, Shahar bet 6,700, seat 6 mucked and Chen called. When the K fell on the river Chen smiled and seemed to be chuckling to himself. Shahar bet 10,000 and Chen laid his hand down.
Player Tags: Max Pescatori, Shannon Shorr, Dario Minieri, John Chou, Paul Foltyn, Alon Shahar, European Report
