Gomez is gone, Desmond is dusted
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Alex Gomez is out in the classic ace-king to queens race. The Brazilian Team PokerStars Pro had flopped the ace after getting it all-in pre-flop but a brutal queen on the river sent him to the rail.
And Cory Desmond followed shortly after. The Brit had made a large three-bet squeeze to 2,100 pre-flop with ace-king which failed to lose the original raiser and caller. Desmond was check-raised on the [a][4][2] flop to 9,000. Desmond, who would have been left with about 5,000 behind should he have flat called, decided to get it all-in. His opponent tank-called the shove with pocket fours. 'Why do I always get slowrolled to get knocked out of tournaments?' asked Desmond. What can we say, bad things happen to good people...