Thursday, January 20, 2011

Event 1: Mooney Triples

$500 + $60 Deep Stack NL (2 Re-entry)    

Play resumed after dinner at the same level, blinds are 15k/30k with 4k antes.

Gina Cannone raised to 60k utg and action folded around to Anthony Caruso in the big blind.  Anthony moved all-in for another 169k on top.  Gina made the call, showing pocket 8s.  Anthony held A4 and would need help to survive.

The board came 4 3 3 8 7 giving Gina full house.  Anthony finished in 43rd place ($2,285).

Over on table 1, there was a huge three-way pre-flop all-in.  The shortest stack held pocket Aces.  Brian Mooney (Middle Village, NY) held pocket Kings, and Konstanti Ehlert (Edison, NJ) held pocket Jacks and had the other two covered.

Brian Mooney
The board came T 6 4 6 K and Brian caught a miracle on the river to crack those Aces.  He chipped up to ~1.3 million.  The short stack was busted in 43rd place and Konstanti was left with less than 300k.

Konstanti wasted no time getting some chips back.  He shoved over the top of Eric Doerr's raise and got Eric to lay down.  He then got in a pot with Ryan Wood.  On the flop of 8 3 2 with two clubs, Konstanti shoved for 362k.  Ryan thought about it, then called showing A5 of spades for a gutshot with one overcard.  Konstanti held AK of clubs for the lead and flush draw.  The last two came offsuit J 8 and Konstanti doubled up.