Will Failla Eliminated in 25th Place
Nov 09, '08
Will Failla was all in holding A-K against Charles Marchese and his pocket tens.
The flop brings an ace and it looks like Failla will double up but the river brings one of the two remaining tens and he is eliminated in 25th place.
Player Tags: Will Failla, Charles Marchese
Charles Marchese Doubles Up
Nov 10, '08
Charles Marchese raises to 120,000 and Mike Matusow raises to 360,000. Marchese moves all in for an additional 479,000 and Matusow calls showing pocket tens.
Marchese shows pocket kings and the board bricks out. Matusow now has just over 700,000 in chips.
Player Tags: Mike Matusow, Charles Marchese
Charles Marchese Doubles Up
Nov 10, '08
Charles Marchese raises to 90,000 and Dimitri Haskaris calls from the big blind. The flop comes Q
6
4 and Haskaris moves all in. Marchese calls with the A
Q
and is ahead of Haskaris and his K9 flush draw.
The turn and river come J6 and Marchese doubles up to just under 1.1 million. Haskaris takes a major hit down to 1.5 million
Player Tags: Dimitri Haskaris, Charles Marchese
Charles Marchese Eliminated in 3rd Place ($337,256)
Nov 11, '08
Jonathan Little raised to 150,000 and Charles Marchese moved all in for 1.69 million. Little made the call and showed pocket queens and Marchese was in trouble with AJ.
The board came 98262 and Marchese was eliminated. His patience throughout the tournament netted him $337,256.
Player Tags: Jonathan Little, Charles Marchese
Flashback - 2007 WPT Niagara
Nov 11, '08
As we watch this three-handed battle between Jonathan Little, Jonathan Jaffe and Charles Marchese, I am reminded of a similar situation also featuring the young gun Little.
Three-handed at the 2007 World Poker Tour stop in Niagara Falls, Canada, Little, Scott Clements and unknown David Cloutier played a marathon session of small-ball poker. Little and Clements took turns grinding the relatively passive Cloutier down, and chopped up his blinds and antes accordingly.
With Marchese playing less than 1/10 of the hands he's been dealt, it looks like Jaffe and Little will have no problem recreating the same risk-free situation as they march towards heads up play. Of course, in poker all things are possible, as the two Jonathan's have already shown a propensity to play big pots against each other.
Player Tags: Jonathan Jaffe, Jonathan Little, Charles Marchese
David Pham Eliminated in 4th Place ($240,344)
Nov 11, '08
Charles Marchese completed from the small blind and David Pham moved all in from the big blind. Marchese called with KJ and Pham showed pocket deuces.
The board came AJ4A9 and Marchese paired his jack to eliminate Pham in fourth place. Pham earns $240,344 for his efforts and also adds a projected 1,230 points to his Card Player Player of the Year standings.
That brings his total to 5,252, putting him in third place, leap-frogging Ivan Demidov who finished second in the WSOP Main Event last night. Had Pham won tonight, he would have only been 300 points shy of John Phan, who has held what once looked like an insurmountable lead since August.
Player Tags: David Pham, Charles Marchese
