Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Nosed Out

Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship

Mike "The Nose" Castaldo (Palisades, NY) has been grinding a short stack all day and with 50k gets pocket kings. The blinds are 1k/2k/300 ante and Castaldo simply wants to take down the blinds and antes so he makes it 25k to go.

Brian Lemke (Norristown, PA), who starts the hand with 70k comes over the top and puts Castaldo all-in. Castaldo calls and see he's ahead against AK, but an ace in the window ends his tournament.

"I'm sick right now," says Castaldo, "I played the best I could all day."