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2011 WSOP Main Event – Day 7 Is In the Books
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2011-07-22 05:19
Day 7 of the
2011 WSOP Main Event saw the field put in 5 levels of action, during which the November Nine had been looming on the horizon. 5 levels provided plenty of opportunities for many of the participants to bite the dust, which was exactly what many of them did. At the end of the day, Anton Makievskyi had the largest stack. Ben Lamb and Phil Collins survived on healthy stacks too.
Makievskyi didn’t start the day on a particularly impressive stack. He had 3.3 million chips, and he dropped some of those too, before he got anything going.
After that though, he went on a tear: he built his stack to about 4 million before locking horns with Guillaume Darcourt. Darcourt had Jd,10d and about 1.5 million chips which he pushed into the middle without a second thought. Makievskyi had pocket 9s and he made the call. The board fell blank and Makievskyi completed another significant addition to his stack.
He then took it slow and chipped up step by step to about 10 million before getting all his chips into the middle again and taking down a 20 million pot, this time from Christopher Moore.
Eoghan O’Dea played extremely well too. He finished with a stack of 19 million chips, only slightly smaller than Makievskyi’s 21 million haul.
The pot that eventually propelled him into second place came courtesy of Andrew Hinrichsen. The board fell all hearts but the pot wasn’t chopped after all: O’Dea had a Kh for the better flush and the win.
Sebastian Ruthenberg was one of the ‘name’ victims of the day. His elimination came at the hands of Guillaume Darcourt, whose pocket Ks bested his A,Q after the chips had been shoved preflop.
Erick Lindgren may have scored the most impressive comeback of day 6 but his bell tolled on Day 7. He was bounced by Steve Brecher in 43rd place when his pocket 4s proved to be no match for Brecher’s pocket Js.
