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LA Poker Classic – Final table set
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2010-03-04 04:22
Day 5 of the WPT’s LA Poker Classic saw a lot of heartbreak at the Commerce Casino. Big name players bowed out of the poker tournament one by one, as the grueling 15 hours marathon of a day covered 9 blind levels. Some people chipped up at the end of some pretty spectacular stunts only to be bounced short of the lime light. This was Jim Casement’s case, who had a hand in Carlos Mortensen’s elimination. Casement made the final table, but busted out just short of the televised 6-handed final table, missing out on some otherwise well deserved TV time.
Carlos Mortensen was the player who came into day 5 of the
poker tournament with the largest stack. His day turned sour almost from the get go though. He picked up a pair of Js in the pocket and proceeded to get his chips into the midle on it. He got looked up by Jamie Brown whose A,Q set up a perfect coin-flip. An A landed on the flop, and Mortensen found himself crippled right out of the gate. He still had some juice left though and battled on for a while but failed to gain any traction. Eventually, relegated to less then 10 BBs, he made his do or die move on an Ac,4c. Jim Casement was keen to make the call with pocket 10s. The board blanked out, and Mortensen’s final stretch run came to a screeching halt in 9th place.
The man of the day was obviously Andras Koroknai, who dominated the action and eventually finished with the chip lead. He was the man who disposed of Mortensen’s nemesis, Jim Casement, sending him home in 7th place, thus turning him in to the televised final table’s bubble boy. Having become the short-stack, Casement shoved all-in on Ac, 4c and Koroknai made the call holding A,9o. The board blanked out and Casement was done.
Koroknai disposed of some far more difficult to handle players as well, during day 5. He bounced Johnny Chan in 13th place, when his pocket 6s delivered the goods against Chan’s A,Qo. He then proceeded to eliminate Steve Sung too, on a K,K vs Q,Q match-up which saw the two players shove all-in on a flop of 8c,2c,2h.
Koroknai finished the day with 4,995,000 chips, followed by Raymond Dolan, with 3,300,000.
