A Maniac Ruined WSOPE Main Event for LarsLuzak!

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: High Stakes News, LarsLuzak, Poker, Sami Kelopuro, Uncategorized, blogs
• Date: Oct 5,2009

Kelopuro, who had a very good stack going into second day of the tournament, was seated in a very bad starting table, but after a while a guy was moved to his table and everything changed. The new guy was a huge maniac, in Sami’s own words: “nothing like I’ve ever seen before”.

Life is not a sunshine for Kelopuro right now.

The guy was making huge plays, calling 3-bet with 5-2 suited from the blinds and outplaying AK to a jack high board and even showing his hand afterwards. This was right after he was moved to the table so Sami reckons the guy with AK must have put the maniac on aces, after such a strong play and no history together.

Then Sami played a huge hand against this maniac. The way how the hand went resembles Sami’s poker games so far this year, woeful. This is how Sami describes the hand in his blog:

There was a 5-way single raised pot, I called from SB with 55 and flop comes 356 all diamonds. I lead out 12500, guy who playes every hand is the only caller. Turn is a 6, I check because he is usually betting when it’s checked to him and also because I don’t think he has outs. He checks behind and the river is a 3. I check again, I think it’s the only way to get more out of him.

He bets 15k, which is about one third of the pot. I was going to just call, but since the bet was so small and he shouldn’t have a 6 in his hand since he checked the turn, I raised to 45k. I think he is calling with threes full for sure and  easily with something worse too and I still left him some space to make a move.

He was making pretty desperate all-in bluffs on the river, when people already called 80% of their stack and river is a total blank. He moved in against me for 22k more. Of course I have to call, and of course he made quad threes on the river.

After that hand Sami had about tournament average chips left, but he got so tilted from the hand that he ended the day 2 with only 17k chips left, about 11 big blinds. He was eventually busted out of the tournament after second time going all-in in 15 minutes of play of day 3. He was ousted by Justin “BoostedJ” Smith who won the coinflip with AK against Sami’s pocket jacks.

Also, did you know that £5,000 buyin tournament is now called “lowroller” tournament? At least that is how Kelopuro calls the EPT London main event. By the way, Kelopuro is out the EPT tournament too after two days of action.

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