ClubWPT.com Level 9 Update

The miraculous upswing of  ClubWPT.com qualifier Jesse Lopez continued during Level 9 and, for the first time today, he has cracked the 100,000 chip mark.  Poker pro Kathy Liebert was moved to Lopez’s table earlier this afternoon and she took a break from making prop bets with Matt Stout to ask Lopez about ClubWPT.com. 

While the table talk between Liebert and Lopez was nothing but friendly, the big pot they clashed in on the the last hand of Level 9 was not so nice.  Lopez raised from the cutoff, Liebert reraised from the button and Lopez called, leaving around 40,000 chips behind.  The flop came [8c][2d][2h] and Lopez led out for 14,000.  Liebert eyed his stack, evaluated her options and moved all-in, just barely having Lopez covered.  He thought for a bit and told us later that he, "decided to trust his instincts," and called with [As][8h] for two pair.  Liebert showed [Ad][Qs] for ace high.  The turn and river brought running jacks to give Lopez jacks and eights to take the pot and leave Liebert with only 6,000 chips. 

When we went over to check on our other ClubWPT.com qualifier Dean Meyer, the whole table informed us that we missed out on a doozy of a hand, but they were kind enough to fill us in on the details:

For the second time today, Meyer came back from the brink of elimination thanks to the dealer putting a straight on the board.  Earlier today, he chopped a pot with A-Q against his opponent’s A-K after the board ran out 5-3-2-X-4 and he had equally good fortune during Level 9.  Meyer called another player’s all-in on a 7-6-5 board holding pocket aces to the other player’s set of sevens.  It looked like it was the end for Meyer, but the turn put a gutshot on the board and the river completed the straight to chop the pot once again.

Other than that big pot, Meyer has laid low this past level and he is still sitting on just over 40,000 chips.

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