$10,000 Main Event - Day 5 - Level 22 (Hour 2)
Jul 12, '08
Players are on a 90-minute dinner break. Play will resume at 9:30 p.m.
Blinds/Antes: 10,000 / 20,000 / 3,000
Players Remaining: 97 of 6,844
Chip Counts:
Nikolay Losev: 3,500,000
Mark Ketteringham: 3,500,000
Tiffany Michelle: 3,300,000
Jamal Kunbuz: 3,300,000
Brandon Cantu: 3,200,000
Aaron Gordon: 3,200,000
James McManus: 3,200,000
Peter Eastgate: 2,900,000
Justin Scott: 2,800,000
Allen Kennedy: 2,700,000
Average Stack: 1,368,800
Big Hands and Storylines:
Should Have Stayed in Bed
Dutch player Yde van Deutekon became an Internet sensation earlier this year when he created a website designed around the premise that people would pay to watch him spend entire days in bed. Sleepingrich.com earned him $19,000 before he travelled to Las Vegas for the WSOP.
Some days it doesn’t pay to get up. Van Deutekon was one from the cut-off and raised to 65,000 preflop. Joe Bishop was in the cut-off and made the call, as did Albert Kim from the button. Both blinds folded. The flop came J
J
5
, and all three players checked. The 6 came on the turn and Van Deutekon stabbed at the pot with a 90,000 bet. Bishop folded, but Kim made the call. The 7 fell on the river and again Deutekon checked. Kim announced a bet of 250,000 and Deutekon snap-called, announcing he had the nut flush. But lo and behold, he had misread his hand. He actually held A
K and had been fortunate to not raise all-in as Kim had him substantially covered. Kim won the pot with J10, and Van Deutekon was left with just under 400,000 in chips.
Full credit to Van Deutekon, he took his misread in stride and was able to laugh about it with the rest of the table.
Aaron Keay Triples Up
Action folded around to Matt Matros, who limped from the cutoff. Aaron Keay, from the button, instantly tossed his last 150,000 into the pot. Phil Hellmuth in the big blind made the call and Matros, after a minute or so of intensely scrutinizing Hellmuth, did the same. The board came off AKK62 and Hellmuth and Matros checked every street. Immediately after Matros checked the river, Keay flipped over 22 for a rivered full house, good enough to take the pot, and pipping Matros’ pocket sevens and Hellmuth’s pocket fours.
Keay is now up to 480,000.
Kostritsyn Has Aces Cracked, Loses Pot Worth 1.2 Million
Alexander Kostritsyn has been having a tough level to say the least. The most expensive hit to his stack came with a board of AJ107 when he and his opponent, Reagan Silber, got it all in. Kostritsyn had Silber’s 616,000 in chips covered, but his AA was no good against Silber’s KQ. Silber seemed apprehensive when he saw Kostritsyn’s hand and feared a board pair on the river. Fortunately for Silber, the river came 2 and he successfully doubled up. The loss left Kostritsyn with approximately 1.5 million in chips.
Herzog Misses on Draw
Jamal Sawaqdeh and Geoffrey Herzog both committed 100,000 to the pot preflop and saw the board come K105. Sawaqdeh then announced all-in for his final 441,000, and Herzog made the call. Sawaqdeh showed KJ for top pair, while Herzog held AQ for the nut flush draw. The 8 came on the turn and Sawaqdeh dodged the river as well when the 4 came down.
Player Tags: Phil Hellmuth, Albert Kim, Geoffrey Herzog, Alexander Kostritsyn
