Jordan Lamberg, aka JL514, goes into today's final table second in chips with 1,619,000. Prior to this tournament, his poker experience was largely confined to multi-tabling $25 NLHE online. A student at the University of Miami studying abroad in Melbourne, Jordan wrote only a few weeks ago about having $200 to his name to last him to the end of the semester. Now he's guaranteed at least $23,880 for his tournament finish. And if he wins? Well, what college loans?
Lamberg acquired the majority of that big stack by making a sick, sick call. Here's what I wrote about the hand on Poker News:
With the board reading
on the turn, Con Angelakis moved all in for over 500,000 and Jordan Lamberg made the call. Lamberg turned up 
for a pair and a flush draw while Angelakis showed 
for king high. The river was the 
and Angelakis was eliminated, while Lamberg's stack shot up to 1,800,000. He's our new chip leader.Jordan thought for a long time on that hand, and his bullshit detector must have been in overdrive to make that call.
The final table kicks off at 4 p.m. local time (GMT+9). That's 10 p.m. Sunday night on the west coast and 1 a.m. Monday morning on the east coast. Pauly and I will be doing hand-for hand coverage live on Poker News. Tune in and cheer on one of our own!
2 comments:
Thanks for the coverage, was great to meet you guys. On that hand, I was pretty sure I was good. It was possible that he had top pair, but with a pair and a flush draw I had so many outs. I was really close to laying it down, but thought "fuck it, go big or go home." I was already happy with the money I was guaranteed, and there was a pretty decent chance I was ahead. If not, lots of cards caught up for me.
Definitely was a sick call. He whined about it after the hand saying "i guess i didn't raise enough preflop to get the crap out." Which is the truth, he raised to 55k, and I had my 20k BB in already, definitely was a big hand though :)
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