Scarpa's Kings Prevail, Two Tables Remaining

Event 7 (Day 2)
Level 23 (8,000/16,000/2,000)

Total Entries: 414
Players Remaining: 18
Chip Average: 440,000

Adrian Scarpa (Manchester, CT)

If you've been following the Foxwoods Poker blog though the first half of the Card Player Poker Tour you surely remember Andrew Lauer from the Event 5 Final Table, where his pocket tens cracked the pocket Kings and Aces of Michael Lavoie, first crippling Lavioe and eventually knocking him out and gifting Lauer with the chip lead, which he rode to a 2nd place finish.

What goes around comes around, as Lauer just got it all-in with [Ah][As] against the [Kc][Kd] of Adrian Scarpa, looking to again win a massive pre-flop encounter to move himself up the leaderboard heading into the final two tables.

Except this time, he was on the wrong side of variance as the flop came clean, followed by the dirty [Ks] on the turn, giving Scarpa the set and the elimination as he had Lauer slightly covered.

It was a very unlucky spot, but in poker, you can never always be on the winning side of 80/20 encounters and after getting "lucky" a few times in Event 5 and making a deep run here in Event 7, Lauer can't really complain about the outcome in the scheme of things.

The elimination has sent us to our final two tables with 18 players remaining and after the redraw, here are the table assignments and chip counts:

Table 1

1. Ari Jonisch - 450,000
2. David Papa - 550,000
3. Eric Siegel - 150,000
4. Bob Courtney - 600,000
5. Jay Marshall - 300,000
6. Soukha Kachittavong - 300,000
7. Brad St. Vincent - 500,000
8. Glen Thompson - 650,000
9. Peter Tripp - 800,000

Table 2

1. Chris Vogel - 400,000
2. Jeff Kosko - 525,000
3. Chris Leong - 550,000
4. Jen Barrile - 150,000
5. John Vohs - 360,000
6. Robert Campion - 375,000
7. Raj Patel - 750,000
8. Adam Johnson - 280,000
9. Adrian Scarpa - 500,000

As we were collecting the chip counts, Ari Jonisch managed a huge double up through the former chip leader Glen Thompson after Thompson opened in late position and Ari moved all-in from the big blind. 

Thompson would call and Jonisch would hold a serious advantage [Ad][Kh] to Thompson's [Kd][Qc], with both pairing their King on the turn and Jonisch's Ace kicker playing to win him the pot. 

Jonisch would give out a loud "YES!" after the river bricked out and he'd get some high fives and handshakes from his rail of Alex Umansky and Craig Warkol, who have returned to sweat the final two tables of Event 7.