Bartyuk has found a pro at his table by the name of Brad Booth. You’ll find Booth on the popular poker show High Stakes Poker, regularly sitting in with the likes of Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu. Booth has been putting the rest of the table through its paces, and bartyuk has slipped to 9000 chips.
Meanwhile, lennie10 has torn it up, flopping the nuts on this next key hand. Holding 53o in the big blind, two limpers came in and lennie10 checked it. The flop comes A 2 4, giving our hero the absolute nut straight. lennie10 bets out 500 and was called by one other player. The turn was checked around, and a bet of 3000 was fired on the river by lennie10. His opponent called, and showed pocket Deuces for a flopped set. Not good enough against a straight!
An incident occurred at a random table involved a misdeal. Three players to the flop of Q K Q, and the first bets out. The second player folds, after which the dealer begins the push the pot towards the first player, not realising the third player is still in the hand. As the pot is pushed, the bettor turns up AK just before the third player protested that he was still in!
The tournament director is called over, and after discussion it was ruled that the hand must continue with the AK face up, while the other player needn’t show their hand. Disaster was averted, however, as it was checked all the way down and the AK held up against AT.
Current chip counts:
lennie10: 34,000
miw210: 40,000
bartyuk: 9,000
pelicancruse: 10,000
Average stack is approximately 22,000.
Level 3 has commenced with blinds at 100/200, 25 ante.
– Phil @ CarbonPoker
