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WPT World Championship – Day 5 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Thu, 2013-05-23 02:39
The 5th day of the WPT’s World Championship event turned out to be an extremely short affair. The objective for the day was an extremely modest one to begin with: 8 players returned to the tables of the Bellagio to play down to the 6-handed final table. It took them about 2 hours to accomplish the feat. There weren’t any surprises in the way the Day 5 action unfolded either. The two players who started with the shortest stacks were
PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu and Rocco Palumbo and they were indeed the two to bite the dust setting up the official final table.
Palumbo only had about 22 BBs in his stack at the beginning of the day, so he was under a great deal of pressure to get something going early. Lady Luck didn’t side with him though. He bled away some chips before pushing his last 17 BBs into the middle on a J,8o against Brandon Steven’s Kh, Jh. The flop fell all spades, tossing Palumbo a last straw to cling on to, but the turn and the river were both clubs and thus his
poker tournament run was over.
Unlike Palumbo, the other short-stack, Negreanu, managed to catch an early double-up, by winning several pots and picking up some more than welcome dead chips. From that point on however, it was all downhill for him. He started bleeding chips and eventually Erick Lindgren moved in to put him out of his misery. Kid Poker pushed his last chips into the middle on a flop of 10,8,5 holding an A,10o. Lindgren made the call with pocket Js, and neither the turn nor the river came to Negreanu’s aid. His reward was $137k, and his departure set up the official 6-handed final table.
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