ClubWPT.com Level 2 Update

Level 2 is in the book and the three ClubWPT.com qualifiers are all still alive and well in the event.  Martin Sasser continues to climb the chip counts and is up to almost 50,000 thanks to a big hand with pocket kings.  Sasser was moved from his original table to a new seat midway through the level and it did not take long for him to make himself at home.

Several players limped into the pot for 200 and Sasser raised to 700 out of the small blind.  A middle position limper called, as did the player on the button.  The board came out [Th][5d][4c] and Sasser led out for 1,000.  The player in middle position folded and the player on the button raised to 3,100 total.  It looked as though Sasser was counting out a reraise, but he put down the 5,000 chips he was handling and opted to call instead.  The turn brought the [Ah] and both players checked.  They checked again after the [3c] came on the river and Sasser showed pocket kings, which were good enough to take the pot and build his stack up to 48,000 heading into break.

Though Sasser was moved to a new spot, Jesse Lopez is still at their original table and came back from the first break to find that he had a new tablemate in the form of Victor Ramdin, who is seated two seats to Lopez’s left.

Lopez took down a decent little pot in a blind versus blind confrontation.  He completed the small blind, the big blind checked his option and the duo saw a flop of [Tc][Th][6h].  Both players checked and saw the turn come [Ac].  Lopez bet out 200 and his opponent called.  The river was the [8s] and Lopez bet out 500 only to have the player in the big blind raise to 1,500 total.  Lopez called with [Kc][Td] for trip tens and his opponent showed his inferior [As][9h] for aces up.  After the hand, Lopez was at 22,500 chips.

Dean Meyer has escaped the tough lineup of his original table, but his new table, which includes Jason Mercier, Kathy Liebert and Nick Schulman, is equally daunting.  Meyer continued to lay low during Level 2.

"I’m kind of the king of folding," he explained.  He did try to wrangle some chips without playing a pot though.  A player at his new table asked about Meyer’s cowboy hat and Meyer jokingly  informed him it could be purchased for tournament chips later in the day.  In the meantime, Meyer is sitting on 20,500 chips.

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