The first elimination of the day

  • Level: 14
  • Small Blind: 1.2K
  • Big Blind: 2.4K
  • Ante: 400
  • Chip Average: 106.7K
  • Remaining: 63
  • Entries: 269


The WPT Warm-up has had its first player eliminated for the day and it was pretty spectacular.

We arrived at the table to see a flop of 4 of Hearts 8 of Clubs Queen of Spades and Lonnie Hallett, in Seat 5 and early position in the hand, had put Chi Tsun Chan (button) to a decision whether to call Lonnie’s reraise from 15K to 35K.

Chi Tsun Chan did call and the dealer dealt the turn: 7 of Clubs. Lonnie thought for a few seconds and bet his whole stack. Chi Tsun Chan didn’t have to think about it for long: “Call”.

When the cards were flipped over, there was no doubt. Lonnie turned over 5 of Clubs 6 of Clubs for the turned straight and a re-draw to a flush – while all Chi Tsun Chan could counter with was King of Clubs King of Diamonds. He was drawing dead, and the insignificant river gave Lonnie the pot – and all of his opponents chips.

Since then, there have been a few other eliminations and the tournament is down to 63 players.