ClubWPT.com Level 8 Update

After starting the day as one of the chip leaders, ClubWPT.com qualifier Alan Sasser saw his tournament come to an end earlier today.  Sasser had to contend with the aggressive Christian Harder on his right for the duration of the afternoon and then lost a sizeable portion of his stack when he got it all-in during a blind vs. blind confrontation holding [As][Qh] to his opponent’s [Ad][Ks].  The [Ac][8h][6d][9d][3d] board was no help to Sasser and he was left with just 25,000 chips after the hand.

It didn’t take long for Sasser to get the rest of those chips in the middle.  Two hands later, he opened for a raise from the button and Harder reraised from the small blind.  Sasser moved all-in and Harder quickly called, tabling [Ah][Ac].  Sasser’s [As][7s] failed to catch up with the aces and he hit the rail shortly into Level 8.

As Sasser was shipping the last of his chips to Harder, Jesse Lopez was one table over tangling with several player in a big pot worth 65,000.  Lopez moved all-in with pocket tens, got one caller who held pocket eights and his hand held to propel him up to an average chip stack.

When we last checked in with ClubWPT.com qualifier Dean Meyer, he had chipped up to nearly 60,000 chips, but he has fallen off a bit since then.  One hand where he dropped some chips came in a blind versus blind confrontation with one of the tournament chip leaders, Curt Kohlberg.  Meyer bet out 5,000 on a flop of [Qc][8d][7s] and Kohlberg raised to 15,000 total.  Meyer contemplated a call, but cut his losses and tossed his hand instead.  At the conclusion of Level 8 Meyer was sitting on 46,000.

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