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2011 WSOP Main Event – Day 5 Action
Posted by: Randy Williams - Mon, 2011-07-18 15:34
The goals for the 378 players who returned to the tables of the Amazon Room on Day 5 of the
2011 WSOP were quite simple indeed. All of them were in the money, so they didn’t have to worry about heading home empty-handed after 4 days of intense poker action. With the final table still well beyond the horizon, people were basically only aiming to chip up, thus positioning themselves for the following day of action. Manoj Viswnathan had the largest stack at the beginning of the day. He lost his leading position though, and when the action was called, David Bach held the chip lead.
Bach started with fewer than a million chips, but he kept chipping up steadily through the day. The hand that propelled him into the lead was one in which he had pocket Qs and Scott Augustine shoved all-in in front of him with pocket 10s. The flop added insult to injury when it landed another Q to give Bach a set. At that point, he had 2.72 million chips, but he wasn’t about to stop there.
He shoved all-in holding pocket 3s against Matthew Goldman’s As, Ks. The classic coin-flip went Bach’s way this time, his pocket 3s holding up against Goldman’s hand.
Max Heinzelmann was the next contributor to Bach’s rise. After a little bit of preflop give and take, Heinzelmann was the one who pushed all-in. Bach jumped on the opportunity and made the call with pocket Ks, only to then watch in horror as Heinzelmann showed pocket rockets. The flop fell all diamonds and one of Bach’s Kings was a diamond too. The 6h on the turn didn’t mean much for either player, but the 3d on the river filled Bach’s flush and his stack shot above the 4.7 million mark. He never dipped under 4.7 million, and eventually finished with 4.706 million.
PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu, who had a rollercoaster of a day 5, eventually succumbed to the pressure.
