Annette Obrestad Folds Full House
With the blinds at 6,000/12,000, Annette 'Annette15' Obrestad raised to 24,000 from under the gun, then LStrelec reraised to 59,874 from the button. It folded to lechuckpoker in the big blind who four-bet to 129,000, then Obrestad pushed all in for 460,520 total. Hanson and Wahlbeck checked it all the way down and the board fell J 10 4 7 J and Chiu turned up the K 8 3 2, good for a flush, but Wahlbeck showed the 7 7 X-X, rivering a full house and sending.
With the three starting flights out of the way and all the registration and prize pool numbers discussed, it is time to make the trek into the meat of the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event. We’re still not yet at a single, unified field, but we’re getting closer. On Tuesday, the 505 survivors from Day 1A and the 1,428 from Day 1B competed in the simultaneous Days 2A and 2B, respectively. At total of 822 emerged from the two Day 2’s combined with Florida’s Timothy Stansifer coming out of the fray as the chip leader, holding 481,500 chips.
Stansifer has a fairly sizable chip lead over his closest pursuers, but three more players do have over 400,000: Thomas Cannuli (407,800), Tony Ruberto (402,700), and Joe Kuether (401,200). Martin Jacobson, the man who was the chip leader doing into Day 2A, is still doing quite well, sitting in eleventh place with 342,700 chips.
So far, the tournament has been pretty kind to former Main Event winners. While 2012 WSOP Main Event winner Greg Merson, 1983 champ Tom McEvoy, and 1995 champ Dan Harrington all bowed out Tuesday, last year’s victor Ryan Riess (84,900 chips), 2003 winner Chris Moneymaker (220,000), 1996 winner Huck Seed (96,500), and back-to-back 1987 and 1988 champion Johnny Chan (46,600) all made it through to Day 3.
Some notable names that will not advance to Thursday are Annette Obrestad, George Danzer, Mike Matusow, Josh Arieh, Liv Boeree, and Dennis Phillips. Obrestad may have suffered the harshest beat of the day. In Level 9, David Farber raised pre-flop Obrestad called, and Garrett Greer called from the big blind. On the flop of T♥-8♠-6♥, action checked around to Obrestad who bet 3,700. Greer called, but then Farber raised to 11,500. Obrestad then re-raised all-in for 48,600, forcing Greer to fold. Farber thought about it for a short time and finally made the call, turning over J♦-J♠ for an overpair to the board. Obrestad had him nailed, though, as she had 9♦-7♦, giving her the flopped nut straight. The 6♠ on the turn kept Farber alive, giving him a shot at a full house, and that’s exactly what happened as the J♣ spiked on the river. Farber had caught a runner-runner boat, eliminating Obrestad from the tournament. That also helped Farber end the day in 19th place with 286,900 chips.
Today, the survivors from Monday’s Day 1C will reconvene for Day 2C. It will be a bigger second day than Days 2A and 2B combined, with 2,571 players returning to the Rio. On Thursday, all of those who made it through Day 2 will finally be compacted into one field for Day 3.
2014 World Series of Poker Main Event – Combined Day 2A and 2B Chip Leaders
1. Timothy Stansifer – 481,500
2. Thomas Cannuli – 407,800
3. Tony Ruberto – 402,700
4. Joe Kuether – 401,200
5. Cai Zhen – 367,900
6. John Sacha – 364,400
7. Munir Shahin – 361,900
8. Kyle Keranen – 358,000
9. Timothy Reilly – 354,500
10. Thomas Roupe – 349,600
Did I ever tell you about the first time I saw legendary proto-grinder Annette (“Annette_15”) Obrestad play online? It was at a big poker festival in the Caribbean – I was walking through a lounge area at the hotel, and there sat Annette, along with a couple dozen other young people. They were parked on couches, floors – wherever they could find a few square feet of real estate – grinding away the “Situs Poker Online”.
I stopped to watch Annette because, well, because she was a legend and I was eager to see her in action. Her massive laptop was covered in online tables, overlapped and stacked in such a way that I couldn’t even tell how many she had open. What I could see, though, was her focus in managing all of them.
My first glimpse of this was when the first time she went all-in. She slammed the slider to the far right, clicked the button, and…
Moved to another table.
“Wait…” I thought – “I want to see what happened at that table.” But the key point was that it didn’t matter. Annette had shoved all of her chips in the middle, and now it was the other guy’s problem. He could fold, and she’d get another hand. He could call, she could win, and she’d get another hand. Of course, one possible outcome was that she busted out of the tournament. She’d go back to the table and see:
The next step was obvious – bring up the tournament lobby, click until she found the one she wanted, register, and get back to work.
I watched, fascinated, for half an hour. Not so much by her tournament tactics – the truth is that I couldn’t really keep up with the action – but by the absolute mono-focus on what needed attention right now.
Annette Obrestad Folds Full House Of
Have you ever watched a chess “simul” where a grandmaster walks around a circle of tables, playing a dozen or more opponents simultaneously? The expert (I have in my mind chess/poker star Jennifer Shahade) makes her move and then immediately steps along to the next game. The opponent and a new board texture will be waiting when she completes an orbit.
So it was with Annette_15. Make a bet and move. Fold and move. Jam and move. Somewhere there was another tournament that needed her to do something.
And you know… as I was writing this article, I took a break and was perusing a hand history group I belong to. One of our members, I’ll call him Bob, posted a hand where he had pocket aces, raised, and flopped a set. He turned the top full house. It went check, check. Then on a blank river, Bob bet, and the opponent jammed for about half a pot more.
As is our preferred policy, he didn’t say what his final action was, or what the outcome of the hand was.
Another member wrote, “If I read this correctly, you lose to exactly one hand – quads – so you snap call.”
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