Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Boston Three Party

Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship

Jean Claude Moussa (Boston, MA) - 530,000

So how did Jean Claude Moussa suddenly climb up to 530,000 chips?

Three key hands with the last being most key.

1) Doubled up 80,000 when his AA in the small blind got in against A-K and held.

2) Got another 80,000 after hitting a set of Jacks, again against A-K (same guy).

3) Blinds are 2000 / 4000 and Jean Claude raises in the cut-off holding wired fives. Flop comes heart heavy K-10-5. Big blind checks so Moussa fires out 15,000. BB makes it 30,000 more. Moussa adds 60,000 on top and BB shoves the rest of his 250,000 stack.

BB tables A-3 of hearts and finds his flush on the turn card 9 of hearts.

Then the miracle river 9, paired the board giving Jean Claude the monster runner, runner, full-house along with a ton of chips.

Moussa has been sitting at the same table as today's chip leader Roslyn Quarto but the two haven't really played many significant hands together.