$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 2K/4K Ante 500

It’s been a pretty passive final table with plenty of limping and calling pre-flop. A recent hand saw five players see the flop in a limped pot. The flop came leading to an all in from Lawrence Cone. He was called by Avraham Kalmis. The dealer did not see that the chip leader, Norbert Kara, still had cards and said “turn them over” which Cone did, showing . Kalmis caught it before he turned his cards over and the turn was dealt, a . Norbert led out for 20K and Kalmis moved all in. He was quickly called as Kara had flopped a set of 3’s. Kalmis turned his hand over knowing he was drawing dead as he had A-6. Cone had fewer chips and finished in 8th place for $1,000 and Kalmis took home $1,350 for his 7th place finish.

$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1.5/3K Ante 500

We have quickly reached the final table. William Wilson, who was the player that bluffed the big stack earlier, was our next player eliminated in 11th place. He won $571 along with Brian Raik who was the first player eliminated from the final table in 10th place.

Paul Stanechewski got his money in with the nuts with K-Q on a J-T-2-A board for a Broadway straight but got outran by his opponent’s pocket 10’s when the board paired aces on the river to give him a full house. A frustrated Paul could do nothing more than shake his head, grab his stuff, and walk off to collect his winnings.

$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 1.2/2.4K Ante 400

A shortish stack raised from under the gun and was called by the tournament chip leader who was in the big blind. The flop came A-5-4 and our big stack checked. The short stack made a bet of 8K and was called. The turn was another 5 and again it went check-bet-call, this time for 13K, leaving the short stack with just under 10K. The river was a 3 and it went check-check. The big stack showed K-4 off suit and the short stack threw his cards in disgust so forcefully that they ended up landing on the floor to the left of the dealer. A friend came up to him to give advice to him and he responded “It’s not my fault he calls with King Four off.”

We’re still at 11 players as they are on a 10 minute break where they are coloring up the black 100 chips.

$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better

Blinds: 2K/4K – Limits: 4K/8k

It didn’t take long to get into the money once we hit the final table and we’ve already lost two more players and are four handed. Finishing in 6th place winning $720 was Robert Mangino. 5th place went to Joey Prosper who took home $960. This is what they are playing for…

$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 800/1.6K Ante 200

We are in the money here in Event 4 as a short stacked player couldn’t find a hand and was unable to get lucky. There are a lot of similar sized stacks with the biggest stack looking to be about 125K.

$200 + $40 Omaha Eight or Better

Blinds: 1.5K/3K – Limits: 3K/6k

It took a while but we are finally down to one table of ten players. They are racing off the black chips and will be re-drawing and finding new seats. The average chip stack is 42,400.

$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 600/1.2K Ante 200

As the Monday Night Football game came to a close, the majority of the poker players in Event 4 were focused on that rather than their table. There were a lot of peek at cards and fold. If someone didn’t fold, it was usually because they had a good hand. We did see one double up when a woman in Seat 6 moved all in for her last 12.4K with pocket 3’s and was up against a big stack with . The flop came with three diamonds but she was able to fade all of her opponent’s outs to double up.

Another player was not as lucky. He moved all in with A-K and was called by a big stack who held pocket 8’s. Things were looking good when he flopped an ace but an 8 on the river meant his tournament was over. He pushed his stack of chips into the middle towards the lucky big stack who could only say “sorry bud” as he added more chips to his ever growing stack.

There are 21 players remaining.

$260 +$40 No Limit Hold’em

Blinds 500/1K Ante 100

After being crippled earlier with tens against A-T, Adam Levy decided to try his luck with A-T and was racing against pocket 4’s. A four on the flop was not the card that Levy wanted to see and he was eliminated just ten spots from the money. There are now 24 players left.