EVENT IN PROGRESS: Level: 18 |
Blinds: 4000/8000 |
Ante: 1000
Former IRL and CART driver Gualter Salles was down to just one single, solitary, lonely yellow T1,000 chip moments ago.
He won the first pot to move back into five figures, and the second double up got him back to 32,000 on the next hand.
On the third of his short-stacked hands, Salles found
and calls from two players. Jesse Steinberg and Robert Miller checked it down the whole way with
and
respectively as the dealer did his work. The board was in Salles' neighborhood as it came out
. Suddenly, he has tripled back up to 105,000.
On the very next hand, Steinberg raised under the gun, and Salles shipped it in there again. He turned over the opposite hand this time,
! Steinberg had
, and he was racing to try and finally rid the table of the pesky Salles.
But he could not. The board ran
, and that's yet another double up for Salles. After being crippled down to a single chip, he has won the last four pots to rebound his stack all the way back to 225,000!
That's 43,000 more than he started the day with, if you're scoring at home.
Incredible.
Update
We just received some details about the manner in which Gualter Salles was crippled down to just 1,000 chips. It's turning into quite a story.
Robert Miller had bet 106,000 on the turn of a
board, and Salles called off all but his last chip. Neither the dealer nor Miller realized Salles had a remainder after the call, and Miller tabled his
with action pending, technically. Salles'
had been run down, and the
river did nothing to help his cause. The chip mistake was finally realized, and, in much the same manner as Jack "Treetop" Strauss in 1982, Salles was left with a chip and a chair.
He's worked that into a remarkable 225,000 since then.
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