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WPT Festa Al Lago – Day 5 report
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Thu, 2010-10-21 05:36
The 5th day of the WPT’s Festa Al Lago event saw the last 13 players belly up to the tables, set on making the final table. The day 5 proceedings would end when the 6- handed final table was reached and not at the end of 5 90-minute levels like the previous days.
It took players more than 12 hours to play down to the final 6, over 7 levels. Randal Flowers was the one who emerged with the provisional lead when the dust had settled.
Day 5 was a particularly rough one for those who began the action on large stacks. As a matter of fact, of the 5 players who started the day with the 5 largest stacks, only one – Andy Frankenberger – made the final table. Annette Obrestad was the chip leader when the action kicked off. She was also the first one to bite the dust on Day 5.
Having over 2 million chips in her stack, Obrestad locked horns with Skip Wilson, on an A,K vs Q,Q match-up. Wilson caught a lucky set and Obrestad failed to improve, losing the pot and having her stack crippled.
She was finished off by Brandon Steven who moved in for the kill shortly after.
Jeff Madsen was sent to the rail by Jason Koon, when his A,Q fell short against Koon’s A,5.
Flowers’ rise to the top wasn’t a smooth one by any measure. He was put to the test numerous times, and once he even found himself flirting with the rail, before he managed to bounce back on a K,10 vs K,K match-up, hitting a straight on the river to stay alive at the expense of Michael Benvenuti.
The move that lifted him into the chip lead came late in the day, against Andy Frankenberger, when Flowers rivered a boat to grab a large pot.
