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MacDonnell smiled on by gods of fortuneThe shortest stack with around 150,000, MacDonnell was hunting down value spots and he thought he might have found one, moving all-in for his stack after Ian Gascoigne had opened UTG for 15,000 and Steve O’Dwyer flat-called him.
When Gascoigne made the call, O’Dwyer folded his hand and MacDonnell was in danger of elimination, his
a 2:1 dog to Gascoigne’s
.
“I ordered a hand,” Gascoigne announced to a small ripple of laughter.
Equity advantage can easily evaporate on the wrong flop though and
was definitely the wrong flop for Gascoigne.
“That’s not what the doctor ordered,” he said, realising he had limited outs to make this pot his own.
A
on the turn was the final nail in his coffin, a full house securing MacDonnell a welcome double-through, leaving a big, but not critical dent in Gascoigne’s stack.
With that hand MacDonnell moves to 320,000, Gascoigne is down to 350,000, O’Dwyer has just over 300,000 and Dinneen is also around the 300,000 mark.
Eight and a half hours into the day, the final four players are almost level!
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