Lukas Chiciak was all in for around 150,000 and Brunno Botteon was the one to go for the knockout. The cards were already turned up and the dealer was ready to go.
Lukas Chiciak:
Brunno Botteon:
The board ran out and Botteon flopped a pair of nines to eliminate Chiciak in 19th place for $4,100.
Brunno Botteon opened to 35,000 from under the gun and it folded around to Maria Ho in the small blind who three-bet to 100,000. The big blind got out of the way and Botteon made the call.
The flop fanned out and Ho continued for 80,000, which Botteon came along. On the turn, Ho took some time before moving all in for 275,000. Botteon went deep in the tank, contemplating for several minutes, before eventually making the call to put Ho at risk.
Maria Ho:
Brunno Botteon:
Ho had a massive lead on the hand with trip kings, but when the river fell the it was the straight for Botteon that sent Ho to the exit in 20th place.
Brunno Botteon was seen stacking up Jeffrey Snook's chips after Snook got the last of it in on a board of . Botteon had showing for a set of fives and Snook had for the top pair of queens. The river was and Snook was eliminated from the tournament in 21st place for $3,550.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is happening now, and later this month the PokerStars Players NLH Hold’em Championship (PSPC) will take place January 30-February 3. One man who will be heading to the Bahamas is 41-year-old Jared “BeamDoctorPoker” Halter, who won a Platinum Pass on PokerStars Michigan.
“I won a PSPC Platinum Pass on Wednesday, November 9,” Halter told PokerNews. “I had just returned from Vegas that morning on a red eye flight and slept for four hours on a friend’s couch before I drove home for two hours. To be honest, I was very fortunate to win because I had a very rough 72 hours. Some things happened in Vegas that caused me to have anxiety attacks for the first time in my life and I ended up only sleeping about five hours total in the previous 48.”
He continued: “I was exhausted and when the MTT started, I said to myself, it will take a miracle for me to win. Funny enough, I mis-clicked two different times early in the tourney and called three-bets with hands like 85o (I did not win those hands). I streamed the tourney, and only single tabled it, because of how tired and ungrounded I felt from the previous time. During the stream, I talked about how exhausted I was and how there was almost zero chance I win. Of course, as we know, the universe had a different plan.”
The action was picked up as all the chips were in the middle preflop between Andy Wilson and Katie Lindsay who was at risk for her last 150,000.
Katie Lindsay:
Andy Wilson:
Lindsay found herself in a great situation for a double up, however when the board ran out , it was the flopped seven for Wilson that scored the victory and sent Lindsay to the payout window in 22nd place.
The action was picked up in a heads-up pot of nearly 300,000 on a board showing . Andy Wilson took some time before moving all in for 272,000 and Ludovic Geilich went into the tank. After confirming the count with the dealer, Geilich made the call to put Wilson at risk.
Andy Wilson:
Ludovic Geilich:
The completed the runout and Wilson scored the full double up off Geilich to propel his stack up the leaderboard.
Maria Ho was all in from the small blind for 159,000 and Vicente Delgado was the one to put her at risk from the button. The rest of the table was out of the way and action was heads up.
Maria Ho:
Vicente Delgado:
The board ran out and the queens held for Ho to secure the double.
You can chalk this one up in the "never seen that before" poker category. Pierre Kauert busted in sixth place in the WSOP Circuit Main Event at King's Casino on...get this...a heads-up chop pot.
Yes, that's right, he became the first player ever, at least on a live stream, to be eliminated from a tournament in a hand he didn't actually lose. No one, not even the announcers, caught the mistake, and by the time it was discovered the pot should have been chopped, it was too late.
"It does fall under player and dealer responsibility and cannot really do anything about it at this point. If it wasn’t live streamed it would never have been realized and so we just move on," World Poker Tour's Executive Tour Director Matt Savage, who was not associated with the event, explained to PokerNews when asked how he would have proceeded.