One man who won’t be in the money for the first time this season is Ronnie Espensen, whose exit comes as a double blow given he included himself in his own fantasy poker team.The Danish player (pictured right), who currently leads the Tour league ahead of Paolo Calado, was dealt a harsh beat to send him to the rail and will now have to wait and see whether his Portuguese rival or any other player can surpass his score.
Things had already started badly for Espensen to leave him just over 8,000 chips when he picked up A♥K♣ and went heads-up to the flop with the small blind.
It fell K-10-4 with two hearts and after his OOP opponent led out, Ronnie shoved his remaining stack confident his man would call with less than TPTK. He duly obliged, showing KQ, but poker's sadistic side would have the last laugh, as the J♥ and 9♠ hit the turn and river to make him a straight.
"That was so sick," Espensen told the PPT blog, "Especially as I picked up a flush draw on the turn that limited his outs.
"I might play a few side events over the rest of the weekend. I’ve got to come back tomorrow, even it’s just to rail Paolo Calado and try and put him off!” he laughed.
News of Paolo’s rise to 45,000 chips only added to his dismay. The Portuguese tripled up in the first hour of play as a huge hand played out early on.
Four players went to a raised J-9-7 flop and when the player in first position shoved, Calado snap-called out of turn. His opponent then took his chance to act, surprisingly still called and another behind tanked; eventually folding QQ.
The cards were turned face-up with a nut flush draw, flopped straight and Calado’s set of nines on show, only for a Jack to fill him up on the turn.
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