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WPTM Cyprus Classic – Day 5: final table is set
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-09-11 15:18
10 players returned to action on day 5 of the World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic, aiming to lose 4 of the participants to set the official 6-player final table. Given that goal, day 5 was bound to be a short one. The number of name pros present in the day 5 starting field was amazing and all four players who were eliminated were such pros. Layne Flack, Nenad Medic, Johnny Little and Huck Seed were those who fell short of the televised final table. Rony Jazzar and Uri Keider were the chip leaders at the end of the day, on nearly identical chip counts.
The action started off slowly, as apparently nobody was in a big hurry to see his final table chances go up in smoke. Very few hands saw a flop and those that did pretty much stopped there. It wasn’t until the second level that some decisive moves began to happen. Layne Flack decided to get something going on his pocket 3s and he was soon neck deep in trouble against Uri Keidar’s A,K. The board landed both an A and a K to add insult to injury and to relieve Flack of 800,000 chips. That loss was a costly one and a few hands later Flack was all-in again, this time looking to prolong his tourney life through a desperate double up. Unfortunately for him, Steven Fung had picked up pocket Qs in that hand and he called him, eventually sending him to the rail in 10th place.
Nenad Medic had an even worse day than that. He started off as a short-stack, and try as he might, he just couldn’t string anything together. Eventually, as his stack slowly disappeared, he was forced to get it all in. His A,7 though proved to be no match for Keidar’s A,K which caught a K on the flop.
Jonathan Little had a tough run as well. While he picked up several smaller pots, when it came to solid ones he just faded away every time. Keidar was the one who set Little’s downhill slide into motion by lifting about 500,000 chips off him. Having become the short-stack, Little committed the last of his ships on a K.9 against Thomas Bichon’s A,Q. Already in bad shape at the start of the hand, Little never managed to get anything going and he busted out in 8th place.
The dubious honor of becoming the final table bubble boy was Huck Seed’s. Thomas Bichon first doubled up at his expense and his stack was never able to absorb that hit. To make it even more painful, Bichon achieved that double up by cracking Seed’s A,K with his A,Q.
To further turn the knife in the wound he’d inflicted, Bichon took Seed on once again about 20 minutes later. This time Seed had A,J against Bichon’s K,Q who then proceeded to spike a Q on the flop to eliminate Seed and to set the official 6-player final table.
