2008 World Series of Poker
Event 17 - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout
Day: 2
Event Info
(1) Schwartz makes it 240,000 from the small blind, Young calls from the big. Both players check down the board, Young winning with . Schwartz showed a .
(2) Young makes it 200,000 from the button and Schwartz calls on his big blind. Both check the flop, Schwartz bets 400,000 on the turn and Young folds. Young showed and I believe mumbled, "I'm not going to chase."
Again unusually, all three of them check down to the river of the board, at which point Young bets out 400,000. Strzemp folds. Schwartz sighs and smiles at him. "Stealing, huh?" Young nods silently. Schwartz folds.
Young kicked off the action with a 170,000 raise from the button. Strzemp made it 500,000 and Schwartz folded, commenting "easy fold" in the process.
It wasn't an "easy fold" for Young though, in fact it wasn't a fold at all, the call for the extra 330,000 a seemingly torturous one as he dipped into the think tank, counted out his chips and slid them across the felt.
On the flop, Strzemp bet what appeared to be a cool 1,000,000, which was met by a swift all-in from Young. A momentary dwell later and the pot was Young's,
Current chip counts:
Strzemp: 4.2 million
Schwartz: 3.1 million
Young: 2.7 million
One hand that aided his climb was against Jason Young. On a flop of , Young check-called a bet of 150,000. Check, check on the turn only for Young to check-call again, this time a bet of 250,000 on the river.
Young =
Strzemp =
Young was not a happy chappy.
Strzemp: 3.1 million
Young: 2.9 million
They see a flop, and Young checks, yawning. Schwartz bets 300,000. Young pushes all his chips into the middle, still yawning - a total of 1.76 million. Schwartz mulls it over, but folds.
Meanwhile, he also won a small pot by being the caller, Jason Young raising it to 265,000 from the small blind and Strzemp matching the bet in the big.
The board was checked all the way down where Strzemp took the pot with versus Young's .
"You lost the minimum," commented Mike Schwartz.