Mike Carson Poker Tournament Updates

Event 39 - $1500 NLHE - Level 16

Jun 22, '08

Blinds: 4000-8000

Ante: 1000

Players Remaining: 41

Average Stack: 199,024

Chip Leaders:

Garrett "Gbecks" Beckman: 595,000
Mike Carson: 575,000
Kevin Oleary: 320,000
Edward Salazar: 310,000
Teng Tsai Chen: 290,000
Chris Hunichen: 290,000
Sebastian Segovia: 275,000
Russell Spaid: 255,000
Marion Coria: 250,000
Norman Contreras: 245,000

Eliminations: Greta Correa, David Barter, Lila Aviv

Notable Hands:

David Moore Doubles

David Moore moved all in over the top of an opening raise from John Francis. Francis made a somewhat reluctant call, showing A10 and trailing Moore's AA. The board ran out A22Q7, and Moore's pocket rockets filled up to double his stack size.

Mike Carson Goes Back to Back Through Bob Yamaguchi
On a flop of AQ9, Carson moved all in for 174,000. He was called instantly by Bob Yamaguchi, who had the lead with AQ. But Carson had plenty of room to catch up, holding AJ. And catching is exactly what he did on the turn, when the 2 fell, completing his flush. The 7 fell on the river, and Yamaguchi missed his boat, sending his chips sailing across the ocean of felt to Carson's stack.

Carson finished off Yamaguchi on the very next hand. Again, Carson shoved, and was called instantly by Yamaguchi, who this time held QQ. Carson once again held diamonds, this time AK. Carson nailed the flop, which came A105, and maintained his lead as the turn and river came 104. Yamaguchi shipped the shattered remnants of his stack to Carson, who was still busy piling the chips from his previous hand.

Mike Carson had over 500,000 in chips after the hand.

Note: Players are on a 20 minute break.

Player Tags: Mike Carson

Table 42: Mike Carson Eliminated

Mar 16, '08

Mike Carson has busted out of the tournament during level 3.

Player Tags: Mike Carson

Table 42: The Unknown Takes One

Mar 16, '08

David Pham limps under the gun, Daniel Shiff calls, David Singer calls in the cutoff and Alan Goehring raises to 300. Mike Carson calls in the small blind, the unknown in the big blind calls, Pham, Shiff and Singer all come along.

Six players see the flop of Q85 and the big blind bets 1,600. Goehring is the only caller and the turn is the 4.

Both players check and the river is the K. The big blind checks and Goehring bets 1,000. He gets called and his opponent turns over 85 for two pair. Goehring mucks his QJ face up and takes a small hit to his stack.

Out of six players to see the flop, the unknown out of position took it down.

Player Tags: Alan Goehring,   David Pham,   David Singer,   Mike Carson,   Daniel Shiff