Kirk Morrison Eliminated in 16th Place ($9,220)
No-Limit Hold'em
Sometimes, there's just not much you can do to avoid elimination from a poker tournament. Kirk Morrison experienced that feeling just now as he lost to Matt Venrgin in a set-over-set confrontation.
Morrison was in the cutoff seat and raised to 10,000. Vengrin made the call from the small blind and Sigured Eskeland called from the big blind. The three players saw a flop of 
.
Vengrin was up first and checked. Eskeland also checked and action moved over to the preflop raiser. Morrison fired a continuation bet worth 16,000. Vengrin took a moment and then raised to 41,000. Eskeland went into the tank for a minute or two and eventually folded before Morrison was up again. He moved all in and Vengrin quickly called.
Morrison saw the bad news when Vengrin rolled over the 
for middle set of jacks. Morrison held the 
and had flopped bottom set. Surely he was thinking nothing about losing to another set, but it was on the verge of happening.
The turn was the 
and the river the 
. Neither fourth or fifth street could produce the final six in the deck for Morrison and he sent over his entire stack. He was all in on the flop for nearly 200,000 chips. Vengrin now has a whopping 580,000 in his stack.