{"id":2022,"date":"2017-10-04T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2017-10-04T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:41:32","slug":"no-repeat-for-drake-jensen-takes-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/no-repeat-for-drake-jensen-takes-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"NO REPEAT FOR DRAKE, JENSEN TAKES IT DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piranha Tourney 4 of Season 12 brought a very small field of only 14 players, but thoughts of an early finish faded as the sun began to set before we declared a winner.\u00a0 <\/span>Early in level 1, before all players had arrived, we had a limped family pot at a table of 4 players.\u00a0 <\/span>Flop is J J 10.\u00a0 <\/span>Elise Gaylord leads out for 200 and is called by 2 people.\u00a0 <\/span>Turn is an Ace and Elise agains leads out for 275 and called by the same 2.\u00a0 <\/span>River is a meaningless 3 and once again Elise leads out for 500, Ryan (last week\u2019s winner) raise to 1600, Haisam folds and Elise calls.\u00a0 <\/span>Ryan turns over 10 10 for the full house, Elise hit Broadway on the turn with her pocket K Q, and Haisam had folded his trip Jacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As many Piranha folks know, pocket A Q has become known as \u201cThe Christine\u201d after our own Christine LaMonaca busted out of the WSOP twice with that hand, and vowed she wouldn\u2019t play A Q again.\u00a0 <\/span>So, when Christine and Gordo were involved in a hand that flopped QQ x, Q on turn and A on the river, I had to write this up as Christine hit quads and won the pot holding the A Q.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our first, second and third bust-outs came about halfway through level 2, all within 7 minutes of each other. We lost two more players in level 3, reaching the final table with 13 minutes left in level 3 at about 1:30 p.m.\u00a0 <\/span>Then things really slowed down. \u00a0 <\/span>Only 4 places received points and we didn\u2019t reach the bubble until level 9.\u00a0 <\/span>Then Justin Sauble became the bubble boy early in level 10, and we had our Final Four – Andy Park, Brad Jensen, Ryan Drake, and Vineet Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vineet had a good-sized stack and shoved with pocket 99 and Ryan called with his K 10.\u00a0 <\/span>10 on the flop was enough for Ryan to win the hand, but icing on the Drake\u2019s cake was another 10 on the turn, leaving Vineet with a much shorter stack.\u00a0 <\/span>Our first out was short-stacked Andy Park after he open shoved his A J into Brad\u2019s A Q.\u00a0 <\/span>Q on the flop put Brad further ahead, but a K on the turn give Andy hopes of hitting Broadway.\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately that did no happen when a brick fell on the river.\u00a0 <\/span>Andy earned 3 points for his 4th place finish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to fall was Vineet.\u00a0 <\/span>Flop was 2 4 5, Brad led out for 2800 and Vineet called.\u00a0 <\/span>Turn was a 3 and Brad led out for 3300, Vineet 3-bet to 8000, Brad shoved and Vineet called with his pocket 10 4, giving him 2nd pair, but Brad turned over a 5 6 for a straight, sending Vineet home in 3rd place earning 12 points.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heads up between huge stack, Brad Jensen, and returning champ, Ryan Drake, lasted about 35 minutes of Brad min raising and Ryan folding.\u00a0 <\/span>Ryan made a little progress after Brad opened with his J 9 and Ryan shoved with his K 4 after\u00a0 <\/span>flop of A A 4.\u00a0 <\/span>But, in the end, Brad\u2019s lead was too much for Ryan to overcome.\u00a0 <\/span>The final hand went like this.\u00a0 <\/span>Ryan holds 6 7 of diamonds, and Brad holds 7 8 off.\u00a0 <\/span>Flop comes 6 10 9.\u00a0 <\/span>Ryan shoves and Brad calls.\u00a0 <\/span>A on the turn and 6 on the river giving Ryan trips, but not enough to beat Brad\u2019s flopped straight.\u00a0 <\/span>Ryan finishes in 2nd for 23 points.\u00a0 <\/span>Congrats to our winner, Brad Jensen earning 32 points!<\/span><\/p>\n

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