Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
‘Tis the nature of split-pot games that you play a big hand, a ton of chips go in the middle…and the pot is chopped and everyone takes their bets back. And while there have been five eliminations so far in the $10,000 Omaha/8 World Championship it seems like there have been a lot of all-in’s with the at-risk player wriggling off the hook at the last second. It seems like Daniel Negreanu has been on the brink just about every hand, but a chop here and scoop there have kept him in the game.
Annie Duke has done a fair bit of chopping herself, but she’s also chipped up to around 170,000 from her starting stack of 133,000. If you want to know what it looks like when the river denies you the scoop of a big pot, here you go:
Ah, if only there was a throat to throttle at hand. The players are just returning from break, the limits are rising to 20,000-40,000, so any pot Annie plays figures to put her tournament life at risk. But she’s not the shortest stack and one double-up would put her back in the thick of it. One hand, one pot, one scoop.
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