CPPT Main Event (Day 2)
Level 19 (3,000/6,000/1,000)Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 37
Chip Average: 220,000
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| Robert Mielcarek |
We've almost played through an entire level without an elimination as we are still on the bubble of the Card Player Poker Tour Main Event.
While there have been a few short stack double ups, including Rachel Kranz and Anthony DiStefano rivering a set when his [10c][10s] was all-in against Davide Grandieri's [Kh][Ks], the main focus of everyone in the tournament area has been on Robert Mielcarek who has been the shortest stack in the field for close to two hours now.
He hasn't played a hand through that span and just got his final two big blinds all-in from early position.
Bharath Sreekanth would then be the next player to act and would raise to 45,000, a play the rest of the table did not like as everyone might have planned to call and check it down hoping to eliminate the short stack and earn themselves a pay day.
They were happy that didn't happen though as Mielcarek turned over [Jc][Js] and would turn a full house to beat Bharath's [Ah][Kh] on a board of [7c][3s][Kc][Jd][Ks].
Mielcarek couldn't watch as the board ran out and then picked his head up to fall to his knees when the river spiked, thinking he lost the hand for a moment before realizing that he turned an unbeatable hand.
He'd collect just under 45,000 chips and would be back up to just under the 10 big blind stack and Fred Paradise would say, "We're lucky he [Bharath] raised or else he [Mielcarek] might have an average stack right now."
Everyone at the table agreed and 13,000 times however many people would have called would have been a decent pot for the short stack to win but he'll take any improvement to his stack as we continue to play through the CPPT Main Event bubble.
Some of the other short stacks in the field sweating the bubble are Victor Ramdin, Steve "Dakota" Happas, Rachel Kranz and Michael Borchetta.
