Keith Ferrera is sporting a natty white fedora and it seems to be bringing him and his friends some luck. One of them had just survived an all in and returned the hat to Ferrera. It is certainly brining him luck as he has amassed a stack of 45,000.
“This fedora has so much value.” he said reclaiming the prized possession and placing it back on his head.
David Williams is starting to roll. He has just doubled up getting it in with vs . The board ran out and a smiling Williams counted his chips out to make sure he was getting what he was owed.
EPT and WSOP champion Martin Finger was one of the players that entered the competition at the very last moment and started with 10 big blinds. The German is now all the way up to 23,000 in chips ... .
Ever since Chengce Jiang lost a big hand to Mike Sowers his fortunes seem to have gone in reverse.
The player who once sat atop the leader board and had his table baffled at the hands he was making is now sitting on an average stack and no longer has the leverage or fear factor he previously had. It will be a struggle for Jiang to get that momentum going again.
There was an open for 975 from early position and an elderly gentleman put in the calling chips. Niall Farrell was next to act and he put the squeeze on with a raise to 3,000.
It folded back round to the original raiser and he looked as if he was agonising over what to do. After a couple of minutes thought he four-bet to 7,500. The older player quickly mucked and Farrell wasn’t falling for it, mucking his cards too.
Asked by the four-bettor what he had, Farrell responded, “I had a pair, I was calling a shove”
There was a raise to 800 and a call, Chengce Jiang three-bet to 5,200 with 13,000 behind and Mike Sowers moved all in with the superior stack. Jiang called with the and had a flip versus to see his stack shrink to zero after a king high board.