Mat Widdoes Eliminated in 16th Place ($22,240)
Aug 25, '09
Wow! Monster Pot Below…
Eugene Katchalov raised to 25,000 and both Kevin Schaffel and Todd Terry made the call. Mat Widdoes then shoved in his remaining 128,000 more from the small blind.
Toto Leonidas folded his big blind and the action went back to Eugene Katchalov, who raised it up to 275,000. His isolation didn’t work and Schaffel shoved in his stack of about 500,000.
Terry then went into the tank, visibly concerned with his predicament. After a few minutes of thought, he mucked his hand and the action came back to Katchalov, who felt committed and put in the call.
Katchalov showed pocket eights, Widdoes showed A
7 and Schaffel showed the superior pocket kings.
The board came out Q
53
6
Q and Widdoes was eliminated. Katchalov lost a big chunk of his stack and Schaffel took the chip lead with 1,240,000.
Amazingly, Terry folded pocket queens. Had he not made such a great read, he would’ve taken out two players and been stacked with over 2,500,000.
Player Tags: Kevin Schaffel, Eugene Katchalov, Todd Terry, Matt Widdoes
