We’re just 10 players away from the bubble, but that hasn’t stopped at least one player from developing a slight lack of patience as the money approaches. Jean-Sebastien Lemay was the massive chip leader 2.5 levels ago, but after losing some chips to the table he just lost another 100K in two hands almost back to back.
In the first hand the player in the utg+1 position open shoved his last 72K and Jean-Sebastien called. Action folded around and the hands were exposed.
utg+1:
Jean-Sebastien:
The card in the window hit Jean-Sebastien – but immediately after it was exposed the was also laid out on the flop of
. The
and
were no help and Jean-Sebastien counted out the 72K to pass to his right.
Just a hand or so later he raised from early position to 12K and found one caller on his immediate left. Action folded to the bb, who chose to shove his last 33K. This time Jean-Sebastien chose to raise all-in to isolate the bb, which succeeded.
bb:
Jean-Sebastien:
The board ran out safely for pocket 8s:
and Jean-Sebastien shipped another 33K across the table. He’s now playing just around 320K – still a very healthy total, but no longer among the chip leaders in the tournament.