$2,500 2-7 Triple Draw - Level Six Recap
Jun 22, '08
Note: Players are now on a 90-minute break. Play will resume just before 8:30 p.m.
Blinds: 200-400
Limits: 400-800
Players Remaining: 90 of 238
Average Chip Stack: $13,200
Chip Counts:
Nick Shulman - 33,000
Trung Ly - 31,500
Bill Chen - 28,000
Chau Giang - 18,000
Shawn Sheikhan - 17,000
Raymond Davis - 16,200
David Chiu - 15,300
Thor Hansen - 15,000
Freddy Deb - 14,000
George Penzer - 13,200
Eliminations:
Steve Zolotow
Bruno Fitoussi
Robert Williamson III
Greg Mueller
Steve Wong
Hands and Storylines:
Griffin takes pot off Brown
Gavin Griffin raised under the gun and Chad Brown called from the button. Griffin took one card and bet without looking while Brown took two and called. After both players took one card they checked. They took one card again and this time Griffin bet. Brown quickly folded. When the level ended they both had roughly 13,000 chips.
Nuts over second nuts creates huge pot
Ross Hooper called bets by Archie Karas every round and drew one card each time. Then on the last round of betting he raised Karas's bet to 1,600. Karas then reraised to 2,400 and Hooper made another raise to 3,200. Karas called and Hooper showed him the nuts, 7-5-4-3-2. Karas shook his head and showed 7-6-4-3-2. The pot dropped Karas, who was near the chip lead earlier, to about 12,000 chips. Hooper had roughly the same number of chips after the hand.
Oppenheim survives thanks to a trey
David Oppenheim was all in and took one card on the third draw. He was up against 7-6-5-4-2, held 7-6-5-2, and had not yet seen his final card. Needing a three to win or four to tie, he looked slowly and announced that it was now "50-50" and his card was either the ace of spades or three of spades. Finally he flipped his card over and saw it was in fact the three. Oppenheim headed to break with roughly 7,000 chips.
Player Tags: David Oppenheim, Gavin Griffin, Archie Karas, Ross Hooper
