It's that point of the tournament. The period that all of us love and players like to hate. Where hopes and dreams will also be crushed like candy. Two days of toil within the neon-lit walls of a casino can all be for nothing on the drop of a river card. The instant where the spotlight is turned on you for the entire wrong reasons. It is the nightmare of the quick stack. It's bubble time!
The bubble came on rather quickly with the players dropping away pretty quickly within the early stages of play today. As we ticked towards the tip of Level 14, the players were only one table from bursting that pesky bubble and awarding some money.
Reaching the highest 54 players within the ANZPT Sydney Main Event was deemed worthy of a prize of $3,650. Reaching 55th place was deemed to be worth $0.
It's a harsh reality but it is a necessary evil in a poker tournament, and one who often produces some interesting moments.
This ANZPT Sydney Main Event was no exception.
We steamrolled our technique to 58 players before the tournament supervisor announced at the mic that we were four eliminations from the money which only served to stiffen the backs of the fast stacks.
Towards the top of the extent we hit the bubble when Dale Marsland was cruelly disposed of. Marsland was in peril with K♠T♣ against Oliver Gill's A♠Q♦. The board run out of J♣J♠9♠Q♣J♦ was about as rough because it gets with Marsland turning a straight, only to peer Gill river a boat.
It appeared like the bubble would burst instantly when Nathan Davis had pocket aces against a brief stack's pocket queens, but a queen at the river brought groans from the room as they trudged off to the break with the bubble burst still looming.
When they returned it will take almost an hour from that time before the bubble would eventually pop.
Several players were blinding away, including Jacque Ramsden, before he survived an all in to double through with A♠8♣ against J♣2♦.
It left the pressure on Ben Williams because the tournament shorty and when he found A♥3♠ he pushed his last 12,000 (or three big blinds) into the middle, however he ran smack into A♠K♣. The board ran out K♦2♦A♦Q♣6♥ to go away Williams as our unfortunate bubble boy.
At the similar time, Emanuel "Curly" Seal was eliminated on an adjacent table at the exact same hand, which might often lead to the splitting of prize money. However local rules dictate that chip counts come into account. Seal started the hand with 28,000, Williams had 12,000. Therefore Williams is out, Curly gets a min-cash and the remainder 53 players are happily within the money with yet another level to play today.
Heath "TassieDevil" Chick is a contract Contributor for the PokerStars Blog.
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