King of the Kastle
Oct 30, '08
With 20 minutes left of round two Casey Kastle faced a preflop raise of 3,500. He was nonchalantly reading his magazine and it looked for all the world like he didn't realise it was his turn to bet. When it was pointed out that the action was on him he equally coolly pushed his entire stack of around 50,000 into the middle perplexing opponent Pierre Husson.
After about a minute Husson called the clock on himself and looked like he was going to fold but at the last second shrugged his shoulders and called flipping over A-9. Kastle elegantly flipped over 9-9 and the flop came Q
9 6
4 5
to double up.
Husson was knocked back to around 38,000 and was flabbergasted to say the least.
Luca Pagno only has about three big blinds left and finally found a hand to move with. There were no takers though and he exhaled loudly showing kings. He lives a little longer but needs a lifeline.
Annette Obrestad made a great call on the river to a half pot-sized bet of 7,200 from William Fry. Fry insta-mucked and Obrestad showed Q-J for top pair.
Some chip counts:
Paul Testud -- 50,000
Andreas Krause -- 40,400
Johnny Lodden 109,000
George McKeever -- 12,300
Danny Ryan -- 67,800
Andreas Mattern -- 108,000
Player Tags: Casey Kastle, Luca Pagano, Annette Obrestad, Pierre Husson
