2,000 NLHE - Day 2 - Level 18
Jun 05, '08
Blinds: 6000/12000 with 1000 ante
Players Left: 10 of 1592
Average Stack: 636,800
Storylines:
The remaining 10 players have been moved to one table, with one more elimination needed to determine the official final table.
Big Hands:
Tran Takes Bite of Shorr Stack
Theo Tran continues to hover near the chip lead, thanks in part to a showdown with Shannon Shorr. The flop came A
Q
5
, with a turn of the 6 and river of the 2. Shorr bet 77,000 on the river, and Tran raised another 125,000. Shorr called, and Tran showed the QJ for the second nut flush. Shorr fell to 500,000 in chips.
Shorr gained that back near the end of the level, when he eliminated Thong Tran to create the final 10-handed table. Tran pushed all-in preflop and Shorr had to call another 159,000. Shorr had AJ while Tran had 65. The flop hit both players, coming AJ7, giving Shorr top two pair and Tran the flush draw. The turn came 10 and the river was the 8
to give Shorr the pot.
Gill Begins His Climb
Carter Gill is beginning to benefit from his stack. First he drew a 65,000 call-and-muck from Mike Lisanti on a board of J9982 when Gill had KQ. Gill then called a 65,000 raise from Shorr and won a showdown with ace-six on a board of 97622. Then the next hand after Lisanti raised to 45,000 preflop, Gill came over the top and drew another muck.
J.C. Tran Holds Firm
J.C. Tran has been nursing a short stack ever since three tables remained, but he managed to double up to about 300,000 when his ace-nine outlasted the flush draw of Manny Minaya after a flop of AJJ.
Player Tags: Michael Lisanti
