Goodison Gets His Revenge, a Near-Knockout
Level 16
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
The table folded around to the blinds, and Lee Childs moved all in from the small. He had , and his shove might have worked if Duane Goodison hadn't woken up with a hand like in the big blind. But he did, and he called, only slightly covered by Childs.
The board ran out , and Goodison's jacks double him up. Childs is now badly in need of one of those double up things; he's left with just 500 chips.
On the next hand, Childs had to post the 400-chip ante to leave himself with just one, single chip of the lowest denomination in play, T100. He got it in there with , and he was able to overcome an opponent's to take the first step back towards a respectable chip stack. He's not quite there yet, but he's back to 2,800 now.