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Mike Leah Eliminated by Kelly Kim

Oct 28, '09

We wandered over and saw that Mike Leah’s seat was open. When asked, Glen Chorny explained that his pocket nines ran into Kelly Kim’s pocket jacks and didn’t get any help from the board.

Leah is a Player of the Year candidate, but is quickly running out of time to make his run to the top of the leader board.

Player Tags: Kelly Kim,   Mike Leah

Level 14 Update: Somerville Gets Stronger

Oct 23, '09

Blinds: 3,000-6,000 with a 500 ante

Players Left: 45 of 275

Average Chip Count: 366,000

Chip Counts:

1. Jason Somerville — 915,000
2. Jason Lavallee — 870,000
3. Dee Luong — 800,000
4. Matt Stout — 790,000
5. Jonas Entin — 725,000
6. Dutch Boyd — 610,000
7. Scott Clements — 445,000
8. Andy Bloch — 430,000
9. Matthew Glantz — 360,000
10. Steve Brecher — 350,000

Notable Eliminations:

Adam Geyer
Alan Smurfit
Mike Leah

Big Hands:

Jason Somerville Crosses the 900,000 Mark

Jason Somerville raised on the button and the big blind reraised an additional 30,000. Somerville set him all in with pocket sevens and the big blinds called with KQ.

The board came Q96108 and Somerville’s backdoor straight took it down to send the opponent to the rail and put his stack at 915,000.

Adam Geyer Busts to Dee Luong

Adam Geyer (pictured right) raised to 14,000 and Dee Luong reraised and Geyer announced all in. Luong called with AK and was racing against Geyer’s pocket queens.

The board came down 822A5 and Luong’s pair of aces sent Geyer to the rail short of the money. Luong now has 800,000, well above her husband Prahlad Friedman who is still alive in this tournament.

Corwin Cole Chips Up Big

During the level, Corwin Cole (pictured left) busted a player with set over set to bring his stack to a very impressive 760,000.

Brandon Cantu Busts POY Candidate Mike Leah

On a flop of Js10h8s, Brandon Cantu was all in and covering Mike Leah, who made the call with Jd10d. Cantu showed KsQh for the up and down straight draw and it hit when the turn and river came 9h4c.

Cantu now sits with 545,000.

Player Tags: Dee Luong,   Jason Somerville,   Brandon Cantu,   Adam Geyer,   Mike Leah,   Corwin Cole

Mike Leah Eliminated

Oct 22, '08

Mike Leah got all of his chips into the middle with A-3 and David Levi called him down with 7-3. The board came out 5-3-rag-4-6 and Leah was knocked out of the tournament by a runner-runner straight.














 

Player Tags: David Levi,   Mike Leah

Mike Leah Takes a Terrible Beat

Oct 20, '08

Mike Leah got all of his chips into the middle preflop against Scott Zakheim. Their cards:

Leah: KK
Zakheim: JJ

Luke Priour revealed that he folded a jack.

Board: J10297

Leah was eliminated when the case jack hits the board and sends him out of the tournament.






 

Player Tags: Scott Zakheim,   Mike Leah

"A Little Squeeze?"

Oct 20, '08

Seat 2 raised to 2,500 preflop from the button and Mike Leah reraised to 6,600. Jason Young thought for a moment and then mucked. Seat 2 also mucked and Leah took down the hand to take his chip stack up to 28,000. "A little squeeze?" asked Young after the hand. "I had a big hand," said Leah as he collected his chips.

Player Tags: Jason Young,   Mike Leah

Mike Leah Doubles Up

Oct 20, '08

On a flop of K53, Mike Leah checks UTG+1 and seat 4 bets 1,625 right behind him UTG+2. The small blind folds and Leah raises to 4,500. Seat 4 reraises all in and Leah makes an all-in call, commiting all of his stack (9,025). They turn up their hands and Leah holds 64 to his opponents AK. The turn and river fall 99 and Leah doubles up on the hand. Leah now has over 18,000 and he is the chip leader for the tournament.





 

Player Tags: Mike Leah

Early Frustration for Leah

Oct 20, '08

Mike Leah has had a rough go of it during the first level of that day. His chip stack is beginning to dwindle and you can see he is a little perturbed. On a recent hand the board read A8J9K and his opponent in seat 1 bet 625. Leah shook his head and folded his hand from seat 3, shaking his head at the river card that fell on the table.













 

Player Tags: Mike Leah