{"id":1906,"date":"2017-04-30T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2017-04-30T15:15:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T22:15:37","slug":"steve-takes-stock-of-a-wsop-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/30\/steve-takes-stock-of-a-wsop-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Takes Stock of A WSOP Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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38 players showed up for the penultimate event of season 11, with 30 league players still mathematically alive to earn on of the 10 WSOP seats that will be awarded this season.<\/p>\n

By the time we reached hand-for-hand play, 5 of the 10 remaining players still had a chance to push themselves into the top 10.\u00a0 Both Geoffrey Batuyong and Cathy Seferi busted during hand-for-hand play and ending their slim hopes of WSOP 2017 glory.<\/p>\n

FINAL \u00a0TABLE<\/p>\n

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With\u00a0 the double bust out, the 8 handed final table was set.\u00a0 John Huang, needing a top 3 finish to get into the top 10, led the pack with Michael \u201cGordo\u201d Gordon, Steve Stockmal, and Esmarelda Alderete within\u00a0 striking distance.<\/p>\n

First out was Laura Marshall.\u00a0 With the blinds at 600\/1200\/200, Laura limped in early position and was raised in late position by John.\u00a0 Laura moved all in and John called quickly.\u00a0 Laura turned over JT and John showed JJ.\u00a0 Although Laura flopped a T and a back door straight draw the Turn and rRver brought no\u00a0 help and she was awarded 4 points for her efforts.<\/p>\n

One level later, Esmarelda went\u00a0 out in 7th<\/sup> place.\u00a0 After losing a substantial portion of her stack\u00a0 when her AQ was outraced by Steve\u2019s AJ, Esmarelda was on\u00a0 the short stack.\u00a0 With the blinds 800\/1600\/200 John raised under the gun.\u00a0 Alex Munteanu, also with a relatively short stack, moved all in.\u00a0 Esmarelda called and was all in.\u00a0 John folded and Alex turned up TT and Esmarelda showed 88.\u00a0 Esmarelda was not able to outrun the overpair and earned 6 points for her 7th<\/sup>\u00a0 place finish.<\/p>\n

Karen Alberts went out a short time later.\u00a0 Still at 800\/1600\/200, Ryan Drake raised in early position and\u00a0 Karen called in the Big Blind.\u00a0 She open shoved all in on a K38 board and Ryan called.\u00a0 Karen turned over A3 and Ryan showed KJ.\u00a0 The Turn and rRver didn\u2019t improve Karen\u2019s hand and finished 6th<\/sup> for 9 points.<\/p>\n

With Karen out Steve and Alex were the two short stacks.\u00a0 At 1000\/2000\/300 Steve managed to double up hitting trip Queens against John.\u00a0 Not long after, Steve took over the chip lead from John.\u00a0 Ryan raised from the Button, John moved all in, and Steve called all in.\u00a0 A bit disgusted, Ryan folded his 44 face up.\u00a0 Steve turned over KK and John turned over TT and the KK held up.<\/p>\n

Alex was now on the short stack.\u00a0 The blinds went up to 1500\/3000\/500 and put Alex in a situation where he had to push any reasonable holding.\u00a0 He moved all in and Steve called immediately from the Big Blind.\u00a0 Steve had woken up with QQ and Alex held J6.\u00a0 Alex flopped a 6 for a slim hope of sucking out and that hope became a reality as the turn brought a J.\u00a0 Alex\u2019s much needed double up left Gordo as the new short stack.<\/p>\n

Later in the level Gordo found himself in the same situation as Alex and shoved all in and was called by Ryan in the Big Blind.\u00a0 Gordo turned over Q3 and Ryan held a dominating KQ.\u00a0 K high won as the board ran out.\u00a0 Having already locked up his WSOP seat, Gordo was playing to try to beat the Piranha Poker points record of 213 set by Blue Sirius.\u00a0 Although his 5th<\/sup> place finish and 13 points left him short of that goal, he did become just the 2nd<\/sup> player to ever eclipse the 200 point threshold in a season.<\/p>\n

On the very next hand, Ryan raised and called John\u2019s three bet all in.\u00a0 Ryan turned\u00a0 over 88 and John held KQ of Hearts.\u00a0 Ryan still held the lead on the flop although two Hearts gave John a lot more outs.\u00a0 The Turn was a blank but a King on the river sealed the hand for John.\u00a0 John doubled up and crippled Ryan.<\/p>\n

A couple of hands later Alex shoved and Ryan called.\u00a0 Alex held AT and Ryan held A9.\u00a0 The KQK Flop gave Ryan some choportunities by the J on the Turn put an end to Ryan\u2019s run in 4th<\/sup> place.\u00a0 He earned 19 points for his effort.<\/p>\n

Steve and\u00a0 John were now guaranteed to move into the top 10 with a 3rd<\/sup> or better finish.\u00a0 Alex needed a victory and his chances were slim with a very short stack.\u00a0 Steve was not making it easy on him, shoving blind versus blind at every opportunity.\u00a0 After about a half dozen such hands, Alex was finally forced to make a stand at 2000\/4000\/500 and called.\u00a0 Steve had A6 and Alex had K5.\u00a0 Alex flopped a K but unfortunately it came with an A and a 6 to give Steve two pair which held up.\u00a0 Alex finished his spirited run in 3rd<\/sup> place for 31 points.<\/p>\n

Heads up and now guaranteed their seats, Steve and John went into full gamble mode.\u00a0 They were all in 4 of the next 5 hands, all resulting in chops.\u00a0 On the 6th<\/sup> hand of heads up they again got it all in but this time Steve held a dominating AT while John held A6 of Clubs.\u00a0 Steve flopped a T but John actually improved his chances by flopping two Clubs.\u00a0 The Turn and River didn\u2019t pan out for John and vaulted Steve to victory.\u00a0 John earned 46 points for 2nd<\/sup> and Steve earned 59 points for 1st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

38 players showed up for the penultimate event of season 11, with 30 league players still mathematically alive to earn on of the 10 WSOP seats that will be awarded this season. By the time we reached hand-for-hand play, 5 of the 10 remaining players still had a chance to push themselves into the top … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}