Toby Lewis Has Been Eliminated

(Photo: Toby Lewis)

Toby Lewis’ dreams of WPT glory will have to wait for a couple of weeks when WPT Venice takes place, because he is no longer in this tournament. We caught up with Dan Carter, the man who was responsible for crippling the stack of his fellow countryman, and he explained the hand.

According to Mr Carter the big blind at his table folded out of position and this prompted Lewis to raise it up to 1,200 from UTG+1. However, a ruling went in the favour of the big blind and he was allowed to retrieve his hand from the muck! The action then folded to Carter in the small blind and he raised to 3,300. The big blind folded but Lewis made it 5,500 and Carter opted to flat-call this bet.

The flop came down [7x][5x][2x] with two hearts and Carter checked. Lewis bet 6,000 only to see Carter move all in (he was playing from a 30,000 stack at the start of the hand). Lewis called and showed [9c][5c] and was in a whole world of trouble against the [Jx][Jx] of Carter. The turn and river missed Lewis and he was left nursing a short stack that went into the middle shortly after and the rest as they say is history.

(Photo: Daniel Carter)