$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha - Level 15 - D'Agostino Out on Bubble
Jun 30, '08
Blinds: 2,500-5,000
Players Remaining: 36 of 381
Average Chip Stack: 211,700
Eliminations:
John D'Agostino - 37th place
Clonie Gowen - 38th place
Chris Pappas - 39th place
Gary Benson - 40th place
Hands and Storylines:
D'Agostino's aces get cracked -- hand-for-hand ends
It folded around to Magnus Petersson in the small blind and he raised to 15,000 and John D'Agostino reraised all in. Petersson called and when the two flipped over their hands D'Agostino was hoping to double up.
D'Agostino: A
A
85
Petersson: KK
Q7
Board: 77248
Petersson flopped trips and knocked out D'Agostino, ending the long and painful hand-for-hand play.
Evdakov extends record, but draws others' ire
Nikolay Evdakov cashed in this event, giving him 10 cashes for this year's series. But he has been a short stack this entire level, and his methodical pace has irritated many others. Players were openly talking about his play just a few feet away and timing him to see how long he would take before acting. David Williams definitely doesn't consider him a contender in this event, saying he "stalls, waits for the nuts, doubles up and goes back into hiding."
Big stacks take bullying to the edge
On one hand during hand-for-hand play, Kido Pham announced that if the first two players folded he would raise in the dark. He already had the chips in his hand, and when it was his turn to act he raised to 12,000, just 7,000 more than the big blind. "I want to call a reraise," Pham said. But it never came to that; all the players folded. Pham quickly put his cards in the muck and collected the blinds.
Arieh tried something similar, but the result was different. He raised blind, but Julian Powell reraised. Arieh called the preflop raise, and then called on the flop when Powell moved the rest of his chips in.
Powell: AAJ3
Arieh: KT62
Board: 8427A
Arieh had a great chance to win, flopping a pair and a flush draw, but missed all his outs and doubled up another opponent.
Clonie gone in 39th
Clonie Gowen called all in with an overpair and a flush draw against Shawn Buchanan's top two pair. Buchanan turned a full house, leaving Gowen with just two outs on the river. The river was a blank, and Gowen missed out on cashing by two spots.
Williams picks up chips, then drops back down
David Williams was ecstatic when he knocked out Gary Benson with top two pair against top and bottom pair on the flop. He was over 100,000 chips for the first time in a long time and then won more hands to get over 150,000 chips. But during hand-for-hand play he gave many of them back when he called a 25,000 river bet with the board K97J6 and was shown Q8.
Player Tags: John D'Agostino, Clonie Gowen, David Williams, Kido Pham, Magnus Petersson, European Report
