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2011 WSOP Main Event – Day 6 Stories
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2011-07-20 11:53
Day 6 of the 2011
WSOP Main Event had plenty of stories to go around. The female contingent had been thinned out quite a bit on previous days, so there were only 3 women left at the start of day 6.
Claudia Crawford started the day on a pretty healthy stack of 1.88 million. She caught a good start and soon she was up to 2.36 million. From that point on though, it was all downhill for her. She eventually committed the last of her chips on a flop of 10,4,9 rainbow with Q,J for an open-ended straight draw. Guillaume Darcourt had pocket 7s and he made the call. The two 5s which fell on the turn and the river flipped the coin in Darcourt’s favor.
Amanda Musumeci’s start of the day stack wasn’t nearly as generous as Crawford’s. She did catch a lucky break though and managed to move past the 1 million mark, but her run didn’t last. She took a few hits, and eventually put her tournament life onto the line, holding pocket 9s. Ryan Lenaghan made the call with A,Q. A Q on the turn put Lenaghan into the lead. The river changed nothing and Musumeci was eliminated too. Her elimination made Erika Moutinho the last woman standing.
She had a much better day than Crawford and Musumeci. She survived on a stack of 2.07 million chips.
Erick Lindgren’s story was quite probably the best one of the day. He started the day as one of the short-stacks, but he managed to double up almost right away. Minh Nguyen and Lars bonding chipped him up to about 1.2 million chips before he began sliding again. He then picked up pocket rockets and took full advantage of them. Jerry Van Strydonck was the one who paid him then. A few hands later, he managed to bully Brian Yoon off another substantial pot. Lindgren, who used to play online at
PokerStars too, finished with a 2.19 million stack.
