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LAPT San Jose Day 2: Aces vs. Kings

Is there anything worse than having your kings run into aces? You’re on such a high when you pick up the second-best hand in the game, and when you get raised, you’re almost certain it’s with an inferior hand.

The highs make the lows all the more painful.

The thing is, the one time in 40-some that your kings run into aces is going to hurt regardless of the situation. Put that scenario into the late stages of any tournament, and it only makes the reality that much more grim. Abraham Rosenkrantz knows what I mean.

Rosenkrantz, the brother of WPT winner Jose, was among the 38 players who advanced to Day 2 of the Latin American Poker Tour held this week in San Jose. The publisher of Poker Hispano magazine, Rosenkrantz was looking to become the first Latin American to win an LAPT.

It was early on Day 2, as the money bubble neared, that Rosenkrantz met his cruel tournament fate. Entering the day fourth in chips, Rosenkrantz got entangled in a hand with American Brent Sheirbon, one of the few players in the tournament with more chips than Abraham.

The chips got all-in pre-flop, much to Rosenkrantz’s excitement, but when he turned over his pocket kings, he saw the grim reality in the form of Sheirbon’s pocket aces.

The board, unrecorded, didn’t bring either of the two kings Rosenkrantz needed to turn things around. He was out of the tournament, and Sheirbon took over the chip lead and rode his monster stack to the final table.

Gary Wise

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