$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low - Day 2 - Level 14 Recap
Jun 25, '08
Note: The players are now on a 60-minute dinner break
Blinds: 2,000-4,000
Players Left: 19 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Martin Klaser - 290,000
Tom Chambers - 230,000
Chad Burum - 212,000
Michael Fetter - 200,000
Derek Kadota - 172,000
Joseph Haddad - 170,000
Larry Wright - 145,000
Ian Graham - 115,000
Gary Hutzler - 87,000
Daniel Klein - 86,000
Average Stack: 113,700
Eliminations:
Ed Smith
Shannon Shorr
Big Hands and Storylines:
The Hunter Becomes The Hunted
Not long after Dan “Stainley88” Adams amassed a stack of 130,000, he would see most of it disappear.
Derek Kadota raised to 11,000 from under-the-gun. Action folded around to Adams in the blind who made it 44,000. Kadota, covered by Adams, called with 60,000 behind. Adams moved all-in on the Q
9
2
flop and Kadota called. The two turned over their hands:
Adams: A
A105
Kadota: AQ102
Kadota was in the lead with two-pair, and his hand held up when the turn and river came 5 and K. That pot lifted “The Ghost” – so nicknamed because his opponents’ chips always seem to vanish (what that has to do with being a ghost I’m not quite sure. Do ghosts have the power to make other objects disappear? I don’t know, I’m just reporting what I was told) up to 240,000.
Adams is now down to 30,000.
Table Draw? More Like Table Unfair!
As the tournament played down to 27, the players were re-drawn to new tables on the other side of the Brasilia Room. The table draw, produced at random, made table 9 the center of the action. Not only were the 4 largest chip stacks assigned to the table, but Erik Seidiel and Shannon Shorr as well. By contrast, not a single player assigned to table 10 had more than 20 big blinds.
No Shorr Thing
Shannon Shorr met a similar fate to Dan Adams, his aces getting cracked in a most painful way. Shorr and Tom Chambers got all of their money in on a Q54 flop. The pot was worth 230,000 and the two turned over their cards:
Shorr: AAK7
Chambers: A853
The turn was the 9, but the river was the crushing 2, giving Chambers a wheel and leaving Shorr with only 5,000. Shorr would be eliminated a short while later when he was rivered again by, what else, a wheel.
Player Tags: Larry Wright, Gary Hutzler, Chad Burum, Michael Fetter, Joseph Haddad, Daniel Klein, Derek Kadota, Shannon Shorr, Tom Chambers, Daniel Adams, Martin Klaser
$1,500 PLO 8/ob - Heads Up Time
Jun 26, '08
Blinds: 15,000-30,000
Players Left: 2 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Seat 6: Casey Kastle - 1,500,000
Seat 8: Martin Klaser - 700,000
Eliminations: Michael Fetter (3rd Place)
Big Hands:
Michael Fetter Eliminated in Third Place ($83,538)
Michael Fetter was short stacked and all in against Martin Klaser. Fetter held AQ109 and Klaser turned over AQ27. The board came 77610Q and Klaser made trips to send Fetter home in third place.
NOTE: The players then took a 20-minute break before heads up play began.
Heads Up Play Begins
Martin Klaser - 1,500,000
Casey Kastle - 700,000
Player Tags: Casey Kastle, Michael Fetter, Martin Klaser
$1,500 PLO 8/ob - Erik Seidel Eliminated, Extends (POY) Lead
Jun 26, '08
Blinds: 12,000-24,000
Players Left: 3 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Seat 5: Michael Fetter - 280,000
Seat 6: Casey Kastle - 1,050,000
Seat 8: Martin Klaser - 780,000
Eliminations: Erik Seidel (4th Place)
Big Hands:
Michael Fetter Doubles Through Erik Seidel
Michael Fetter got it all in with pocket aces on a flop of 8-4-2 against Erik Seidel's pair of fours and not much else. The Ace on the turn locked up the hand for Fetter, as Seidel didn't have a low draw. Fetter picked up a much needed double up.
Erik Seidel Eliminated in Fourth Place ($68,304)
Erik Seidel and Casey Kastle got it all in preflop. Seidel showed A1043 and Kastle turned over AKK5. The board ran out Q74KQ and Kastle made kings full to eliminate Seidel in fourth place.
Erik Seidel Extends His Card Player (POY) Lead
If my subject math skills are correct, Erik Seidel picked up a whopping 480 points for his fourth place finish in today's event. He already held a 4,100 to 3,400 point lead over second place resident Michael Binger, bringing his new point total to 4,580.
So what does this mean? It means it's going to take more than one big victory to overcome Seidel for (POY) honors.
Player Tags: Casey Kastle, Erik Seidel, Michael Fetter, Michael Binger
$1,500 PLO 8/ob - Dinner Break
Jun 26, '08
Blinds: 10,000-20,000
Players Left: 4 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Seat 5: Michael Fetter - 280,000
Seat 6: Casey Kastle - 880,000
Seat 8: Martin Klaser - 690,000
Seat 9: Erik Seidel - 325,000
Eliminations: Jon Maren (5th Place)
Big Hands:
Michael Fetter Doubles Through Jon Maren
Michael Fetter raised to 60,000 and Jon Maren made the call. The flop came 1055 and Maren bet 130,000. Fetter moved all in and Maren made the call showing A884. Fetter revealed KK42 and the turn and river came 3Q giving Fetter the double up with his kings up. The low failed to materialize and Maren took a hit to his stack.
Jon Maren Eliminated in Fifth Place ($56,019)
On a flop of KQ8, Jon Maren moved all in and was called by Casey Kastle. Kastle turned over 6--6-5-2 and it was surprisingly in the lead of Maren's A-J-3-2. The turn was the 2, giving Maren the nut low draw along with his two overs and gutshot, but the river was the Q, meaning that Kastle's lowly pair of sixes was enough to send Maren to the rail in fifth place.
NOTE: The players are now on a one-hour dinner break.
Player Tags: Casey Kastle, Michael Fetter, Jon Maren
$1,500 PLO 8/ob - Chambers Out
Jun 26, '08
Blinds: 5,000-10,000
Players Left: 8 of 720
Chip Leaders:
Seat 1: Joseph Haddad – 35,000
Seat 3: Larry Wright - 120,000
Seat 4: Chad Burum - 180,000
Seat 5: Michael Fetter - 120,000
Seat 6: Casey Kastle - 675,000
Seat 7: Jon Maren - 290,000
Seat 8: Martin Klaser - 385,000
Seat 9: Erik Seidel - 360,000
Eliminations: Tom Chambers (9th Place),
Big Hands:
Tom Chambers Eliminated in Ninth Place ($19,656)
Tom Chambers raised the pot preflop and Casey Kastle made the call from the big blind. The flop came AKQ and both players checked. The turn was the 3 and Kastle bet the pot. Chambers raised all in and Kastle thought it over before deciding to call with 7742, the nut low draw and a small flush draw. Chambers was sleeping on his AAK9 set of aces and needed a big non-diamond card to double up. Unfortunately, the river was the 6 giving Kastle his flush and the nut low. Chambers was eliminated in ninth place.
Larry Wright Doubles Through Michael Fetter
Larry Wright got the last of his stack all in preflop against Michael Fetter. Wright showed AQJ5 and Fetter turned over AKK10. The board ran out J8636 and Wright made his queen high flush and low to double up.
Player Tags: Casey Kastle, Larry Wright, Michael Fetter, Tom Chambers
