Kaemmerlen Looking for Even More East Coast Success

Chad Holloway

Level 1 : 25/50, 0 ante

Back in early March, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team was at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, PA for the 2014 Hollywood Poker Open Grantville Regional Championship $1,800 Main Event, which is where we first met Peter Kaemmerlen.

That tournament attracted a modest 37 runners, and Kaemmerlen managed to play his way all the way to third place for $10,178 with plenty of fireworks along the way. First he managed to double through Bradley Yazici to take a big chip lead, but a few hours later the double was reversed thanks to a lucky river card. After a break, Kaemmerlen returned to be decimated by yet another river card, and he then fell a couple hands later. Kaemmerlen played well in that event, but he just happened to get unlucky.

That's a fate he's hoping to avoid here today. In a recent hand, Kaemmerlen opened for 150 from the cutoff and received calls from the small blind and the lovely Natalia Metlach in the big blind. Two checks on the flop saw Kaemmerlen continue for 250, which only Metlach called. Both players proceeded to check the turn, and then Metlech tossed out a T500 chip when the completed the board on the river.

Kaemmerlen released his hand and watched the small pot pushed across the table. He may not have won that pot, but if recent the aforementioned tournament is any indication, Kaemmerlen will win his fair share as the day progressed.