They Started Dropping
Jun 06, '10
Following the dinner break, chips started flying around and the final table lost some players.
Truijers Falls in 8th Place ($18,385)
Roberto Truijers was short on chips and raised all in from the big blind preflop. He was called from Jameson Painter and Ahmad Abghari. The two callers checked the entire board of 4K10K3 and showed down. Their hands:
Truijers: AQ
Abghari: 66
Painter: Muck
Truijers was eliminated in 8th place, as Abghari took it down with two pair, increasing his stack to 325,000.
Painter Finishes in 7th Place ($24,198)
On a flop of 98K Matt Matros bet and Jameson Painter raised. Painter was all in holding AQ and had been outdrawn by Matros’ A8.
The 3 turn and 5 were meaningless and Painter hit the rail in 7th Place. The pot boosted Matros to second in chips with 550,000.
Jason Potter Next to Go, in 6h Place ($32,281)
Jason Potter got all in with his last few chips, holding AJ. His opponent Georgios Kapalas was holding 99 and the race was on. The board ran 1041028.
Potter missed his outs and was knocked out in 6th place.
Dresel-Velasquez Busts in 5th Place ($43,647)
Adrian Dresel-Velasquez got his short stack all in preflop and got three callers. The entire board was checked down, reading 26810Q. Their hands:
Dresel-Velasquez: 67
Kapalas: A4
Matros: A3
Abghari: KQ
Abghari hit a pair of queens on the river and with that Dresel-Velasquez was gone in 5th Place.
Player Tags: Ahmad Abghari, Jameson Painter, Adrian Dresel-Velasquez, Roberto Truijers