CPPT Event 5: 2nd Place - Andrew Lauer ($6,979)

Event 5
Level 26 (25,000/50,000/5,000)
Total Entries: 216
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 3,000,000

Andrew Lauer (Granby, CT)

Over the first fifteen or so minutes of heads up play, Andrew Lauer was chipped down and Teddy Geddes would control close to a 2:1 chip advantage.

Lauer would eventually find himself with just over 10 big blind and after getting a few shoves through, Teddy would finally take a stand.

Lauer would open shove the button and Teddy would nearly snap call, tabling [Kc][Qd].

Lauer held the immediate advantage, but would be more or less flipping holding [Ac][4s].

The board would run out [7h][2d][3d][9d][Qs] giving Teddy his pair on the river for the championship.

Lauer would be fading over a dozen outs after the turn gave Teddy a four flush and his Ace high could not hold and get him back to a decent, workable stack.

Lauer would graciously accept defeat and rightfully so, as he makes the second biggest tournament score of his career, earning just under $7,000 for his Event 5 efforts.

Despite running as pure as humanly possible at the Final Table, spiking a set of tens against Michael Lavoie's pocket Aces and pocket Kings, Lauer was unable to stop Teddy Geddes, but then again, no one was...