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WPT Legends of Poker – Day 4 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2012-08-29 15:31
The objectives for the surviving 18 players for Day 4 of the WPT’s Legends of Poker Main Event were pretty clear: to play down to the official, televised, 6-handed final table. Given that the field only had to lose 12 players to get there, the objective was handily achieved indeed. Josh Hale was the player who managed to clinch the chip lead at the end of the day. There were other notables who made the final stretch of the event too: Greg Mueller started the day on a large stack and he finished it in a good position too. Jeff Madsen and Ali Eslami made the cut too.
As the action kicked off on day 4 of the
poker tournament, nobody was in a hurry to leave. It took more than 30 minutes for the first victim to bite the dust. Joseph Cheong picked up an A,K and decided to trust his tournament life to it. He was called by Jim Willerson who had pocket 8s for the classic coin-flip. The board was a bunch of bricks and Cheong was eliminated.
Sam Barnhart followed him to the rail, but only after Efren Abustan and Antonios Roungeris were bounced as well. Barnhart’s elimination happened on a similar coin-flip of a hand: he got his chips into the middle with A,Q against an opponent’s pocket Js. The board once again fell a bunch of blanks and Barnhart was sent to the rail too.
Cyrus Farzad, one of the earlier chip leaders, and David Marshall were soon bounced as well. Marshall’s elimination carried special significance, since it came at the end of a hand which gave the eventual chip leader a massive boost for the day. It also set the unofficial 10-handed final table.
Art Alaniz was the next victim, followed to the rail by Jesse Martin and Stephen Granerp. The last elimination of the day was that of Willerson, who ran pocket Ks into Hale’s pocket rockets.
