Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Simultaneous Bubble Burst & First To Cash

Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship

Bubble Breaks & First To Cash

Bob Courtney (Millbury, MA) began the day with 340,700 and is all in with 78,500. He's finds himself in the small blind with A-3 and is called by big blind Greg Marcus who has Q-Q.

Board runs: 3-2-J-9-4.

Queens hold up and Bob is out of the tournament and thinks he is the bubble.

Since we're hand for hand, Bob suddenly realizes that another hand in progress also has an all-in with a call. Which brings us over to...

Tim Latouch didn't know another player (Bob) just busted or he might have folded, although he said aloud he was never folding. Instead, with 78,000 all in, his K-Q ran into LJ Sande's J-J which failed to connect on a board of: A-9-5-5-6

Bob Courtney's 78,500 chip total before the hand had Tim Latouch's 78,000 covered by 500 chips which makes Tim Latouch the bubble and Bob Courtney first to cash for $6,665.

1 purple tournament chip (500) is the difference between $6,665 and $0.

Very sick. That's why you have to deal the bubble hand by hand.