Let's Be FrankFrank Gangemi (Long Beach, NY) couldn't have played pocket queens any better from the big blind. Opponent Brian Paneth (Brooklyn, NY) opened for 16,000 with K-10 of spades and Frank simply called.
Both players improved on a heart heavy flop of K-Q-10.
"I was trying to represent A-K" said Frank who quickly re-raised Brian's flop bet with an all-in jam.
So you're sitting with top and bottom pair at risk for all your chips up against a big blind who didn't re-pop pre - you can't blame Paneth for committing.
Both players improved on a heart heavy flop of K-Q-10.
"I was trying to represent A-K" said Frank who quickly re-raised Brian's flop bet with an all-in jam.
So you're sitting with top and bottom pair at risk for all your chips up against a big blind who didn't re-pop pre - you can't blame Paneth for committing.
Board ran clean and the set of Queens earned Frank a monster pot. He's now up in the neighborhood of 400,000.
Before Brian departed he told me he signed up for the Heads Up and Event 13 and was playing at the same time in both tournaments.
He built his stack early in Event 13 since he had a bye in the first round of heads up. Then he played heads up for 3 1/2 hours while his healthy Event 13 stack bled off 80,000 in blinds and antes.
Even though he had his heart on winning the Heads Up, after busting there, he focused here. Alas, he couldn't survive running into a set of Queens and now has lost twice today.
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