Event 13 – ‘Big Omaha High’
Level 19 (6,000/12,000)
Total Entries: 44
Players Remaining: 4
Average Stack: 220,00
Tim D’Alessandro has been short stacked for a while but after more or less tripling up, he’s still in contention for the Event 13 title.
Since the elimination of Kearns Julian, we’ve seen Tim D’Alessandro fade elimination a few times and the short stack is still alive heading towards the end of Level 19. D’Alessandro just put the majority of his stack in pre flop and he held after getting the rest of his stack in to double through chip leader Stuart Gelwarg.
Action was picked up with D’Alessandro potting from the big blind and after Gelwarg called on the button, Gary Kosakowski called as well. That gave D’Alessandro a chance to triple up and after the {Ah}{Kd}{Jh} flop, he put his final 5,000 in the middle to officially put himself all-in.
Gelwarg tanked for a bit and then put in a pot-sized raise. That raise then put Kosawkowski’s stack at risk, if he were to call, and even though he held the nut straight, he didn’t want to commit himself just yet. He flashed “queen-ten” and then folded, only to see that he would have been chopping at best with Gelwarg’s {Qc}{Jd}{10d}{8d}{7s}.
While the big stack had the straight, D’Alessandro had plenty of outs with {Kh}{Ks}{Js}{4s}{3h} and those outs got there by the river. The {6d} fell on the turn and the {Ac} completed the board, giving D’Alessandro a full house and the double.