{"id":2306,"date":"2018-05-14T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:12:23","slug":"2-in-a-row-for-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/2-in-a-row-for-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"2 in a Row For Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to John Marsh\u2019s heavy recruiting effort, 14 players came out to Fremont for the final event of the year.\u00a0 Both John and Christine LaMonaca were still in contention for a seat.<\/p>\n

John\u2019s day started out well.\u00a0 In the first orbit at 25\/50 John and Elaine On got into a raising war, eventually leading to John pushing all in and Elaine calling.\u00a0 John turned over AA and Elaine KK.\u00a0 AA held and John had an early double up.<\/p>\n

It took just 3 levels to get to the final table.\u00a0 With the blind 75\/150, Christine raised to 350.\u00a0 Brad Jensen called.\u00a0 Troy Soult raised to 1,100.\u00a0 It folded back around to Brad.\u00a0 With about 3,100 left Brad jammed and Troy called.\u00a0 Troy held JJ but Brad had set the trap with AA.\u00a0 An ace on the flop sealed the double up for Brad and left Troy with about 20 big blinds.<\/p>\n

The first bust out of the final table occurred shortly thereafter.\u00a0 After a number of limps Christine made it 750. \u00a0One fold and Troy jammed 3,700 and Christine called.\u00a0 They apparently both had 2 cards but after 12 beers I failed to note what they were.\u00a0 The board was 246TQ and Christine won the hand and Troy was out in 9th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Although Troy had finished the season with enough points to win a seat, he will unfortunately not be able to attend the WSOP this year.<\/p>\n

The next bust out was two levels and several more beers later.\u00a0 The action folded to Joe Wiebelhaus on the button.\u00a0 With the blinds 100\/200\/25 Joe raised to 525.\u00a0 Brad looked down at A9 and with 4,500 moved all in from the small blind.\u00a0 The big blind folded and Joe called and turned over AT and had Brad dominated in an all in pot two weeks in a row.\u00a0 The flop basically ended it with 45T rolling out and the board ran Q6 to seal the deal.<\/p>\n

The rest of the event was gratefully recorded by the sober participants and not by the impaired tournament director.<\/p>\n

Four players would receive points.\u00a0 Sandi Sarmiento went out 7th<\/sup>, Steve Stockmal went out 6th<\/sup>, and John went out 5th<\/sup>, ending his season short of the WSOP seat goal.\u00a0 Luckily for John just two days earlier he was able to qualify for a WSOP seat through Piranha sister league SeganPro.<\/p>\n

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Alex would go out 4th<\/sup> with A4 while Christine held KT.\u00a0 Christine raised and Alex moved all in and she called.\u00a0 She flopped top pair on a flop of JK8.\u00a0 The turn brought a T to give her top pair but Alex picked up the gut shot but the river 2 ended his season.\u00a0 Alex earned 3 points.\u00a0 Although he didn\u2019t earn a WSOP seat, Alex\u2019s late season efforts should bode well for his prospects in Season 13.<\/p>\n

Three handed Joe and Michael \u201cGordo\u201d Gordon got it all in pre flop.\u00a0 Joe held A8 and Gordo had A5.\u00a0 A flop 8 sealed the deal and Gordo went out 3rd<\/sup> and received 12 points.\u00a0 Although Gordo was not able to earn his seat, either, he also had a strong late season run and he and his magnificent hair will be back to battle in Season 13.<\/p>\n

That left Joe and Christine heads up.\u00a0 Christine had now earned at least a partial WSOP seat but she could play her way into a full seat with a victory.\u00a0 She was not able to overtake Joe and went out in a pot where Joe held AK and she held 44.\u00a0 This classic coin flip went to Joe with a K on the flop.\u00a0 Christine earned 23 points as runner up and secured a partial WSOP seat for her efforts.\u00a0 Joe earned 32 points for the victory.\u00a0 A more sober director would have gotten a picture of Joe but that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 Instead, an artistic representation.<\/p>\n

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Congrats to Joe in joining the back-to-back win club.\u00a0 Joe had already cemented his WSOP seat but his victory moved him up to 5th<\/sup> in the overall standings.<\/p>\n

Thanks for everyone who came out and gave both Christine and John a fair shake at earning their WSOP Seat.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Gordo for almost getting John, Rob Astarita, and I into a cash game later that evening with probably a murderer.\u00a0 Game didn\u2019t happen so already running good heading into the WSOP.<\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t see you at the WSOP, have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you right around the corner in Season 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Due to John Marsh\u2019s heavy recruiting effort, 14 players came out to Fremont for the final event of the year.\u00a0 Both John and Christine LaMonaca were still in contention for a seat. John\u2019s day started out well.\u00a0 In the first orbit at 25\/50 John and Elaine On got into a raising war, eventually leading to … 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-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}