Gabriel Birlean Eliminated by Marvin Rettenmaier

It’s a little bit early to be talking about the possibility of Marvin Rettenmaier joining the elite group of two in the ‘WPT Champions Three Times Club,’ but he is motoring in the right direction.

There is a min-raise up front before our WPT Champions Club member three-bets to 21,500 on the button. Gabriel Birlean moves all-in from the small blind for 74,000, the original raiser folds, putting Rettenmaier into the tank. After a few minutes of deliberation we have a showdown with Birlean at risk of elimination.

Showdown

Rettenmaier: [Kd] [Jc]
Birlean: [Qc] [Qh]

The flop rains down [Ah] [8s] [2h] and Birlean keeps his lead, but the [Ks] turn prompts a fist thump onto the table. The river of [Th] ends the issue and Birlean is out.

Rettenmaier ~ 330,000