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Day 2
The goal of the day was to play until the last 6 for the final table have been established.
Action started at 2:00 PM, and first bust of the day was Issac Haxton. Haxton was on the
short stack with 21,700 which did not last long. Carlos Mortensen also went to the sidelines when his
pocket J's met with the 7 high straight of Mats Garatin.
Following him are Matt Stout, James McGuire, Todd Witteles, Thomas Fuller, Bill Chen, Robert Toye, Joe Awada
after meeting the pocket A's of Allen Brown, Jerimiah Smith after having his pocket 6's beaten up
by the pocket K's of Jason Melnick and Mike Batell.
After dinner break there were 42 left with 36 eliminations to go. And bustouts did take place with big chip gains
for some players. Manny Miniya took pocket A's (As Ad) into a 3 way hand and came out with 565,000 chips.
He competed against Alan Sass Ac Kh and Mats Gavatin Kc Ks all-in preflop. The table showed 6h 7h Qh
with an Ah on the turn which looked great for Sass. But the hand of fate liked Manny better as evidenced
by the Qd on the river, giving him a full house (A's/Q's) for the win. Carman Cavella also went big
as he called an all-in preflop move by Allen Brown to end up with a full house (2's/10's) and
825,000 in his stack. Oh yeah, Mr. Brown joined the list of the departed after that hand.
Eliminations continued until 3:00 AM when the tournament directors said to bag up the chips
and come back tomorrow. This means there will be 8 players that will hammer it out instead of 6.
There will be two tables, each with 4 players a piece. Here are the names of the competitors:
Day 3 -- Final Table
Play began just after 1:00 PM and within 10 minutes the first bust happened. Bryn Kenney, in 8th place, lost to the Jack
kicker of Carman Cavella. Next in 7th was Praz Bansi who moved all-in with A 10 and lost to Bryce Yockey who called him
with A J. So now we have the needed 6 for the final table.
After ESPN got their film in their cameras, we were back in the action. In 6th place was Manny Minaya
when he pushed to the center all his chips preflop holding pocket 8's and was called by Peter Gould with pocket
9's. No other cards improved the position of either player, so Manny went to pick up the cash for his
efforts. From that point, most of the action was overly careful, as a raise or all-in was
enough to make the other players back off. It took 4 hours for the next bust to occur. Charles Furey
just wished it had not been him in 5th place. Furey moved all-in preflop with pocket 10's and was
called by Ken Aldridge with pocket 9's. The flop was 9 3 7, giving joy and pain to the faces of both
players. Turn card was a Q and river a 3 which stopped the Charles Furey quest for a gold WSOP
bracelet with a full house (9's/3's). In the next elimination, Bryce Yockey with pocket 10's went all-in with Carman Cavella having Kh Qh preflop.
But the hand of fate had other plans and placed a Queen with two 8 cards on the board, giving the win
to Cavella and the slap to Yockey who left in 4th place. In 3rd place was Peter Gould who lost when Ken
Aldridge paired his Ace card on the turn.
So now we have the heads up between Ken Aldridge with 2,960,000 chips and Carman Cavella having
3,610,000 chips. One factor that makes heads up so interesting is that occasionally, one player
makes an incredible comeback after being down to a chip and a chair. After Aldridge turned
the tables on Cavella, he ground him down to a very short stack, went all-in only to have Cavella
survive as he doubled and re-doubled his stack putting him back in the game. But after 3 hours,
the last hand came when both went all-in preflop, Cavella having K 4 and Aldridge showing K Q. The flop
produced 9 9 K, turn card 10 and a J for the river. So Ken Aldridge made a King high straight
and became the newest champion and WSOP gold bracelet holder.
Ken Aldridge