Event 13 – ‘Big Omaha High’
Level 17 (4,000/8,000)
Total Entries: 44
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 176,00
Kearns Julien came into Day 2 right below the chip average and even though he stumbled coming out of the gates, he’s now near 225,000. That’s good for the second biggest stack, behind still chip leader Stuart Gelwarg.
Over the last level, two of the shorter stacks at this Event 13 final table bottomed out below the 100,000 chip mark but very quickly have clawed their way back up to workable stacks. Kearns Julien was the first, as he ran into chip leader Stuart Gelwarg at the end of Level 16.
He then won a few smaller pots to move back up and Julien will now enter the next break with just over 220,000. The other short stack that ran into some early trouble was Joseph ‘Joy’ Reichenbacher, with the Pittsburgh native getting down to just a handful of big blinds heading into Level 17.
Towards the end of that period, he scored a much needed double against Tim D’Alessandro, with the short stack getting it in with {8h}{7d}{7h}{5d}{5s} on {9d}{5c}{3c}. D’Alessandro held {Ac}{Qd}{Qs}{9c}{2h} and he needed to hit on the turn or river to score the knockout.
He couldn’t though, as the {9h} gave Reichenbacher a full house and D’Alessandro, who still had some outs, was not helped by the {Ks} on the river. When the dust settled, Reichenbacher was still below six-figures, meaning he’ll still be the shortest stack as this field heads on their first Day 2 break.