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Richard Roberts Plays his first Pot Limit Omaha Event and Takes 1st Place
By Debbie Burkhead
Today’s Pot Limit Hold’em event began at noon and at 6:05 p.m. the final ten players took their seats at the final table.
The blinds were $500-$1,000 and the raise was $2,000-$3,500.
Nine places paid cash and Andrew Tahoe was the unlucky one to exit in 10th place. Normally the bubble position is the end of the road but at the Four Queens Poker Classic anyone who busts out on the bubble is invited back on September 19 to participate in a Bubble Tournament.
Shortly after Tahoe’s departure we lost Charles Edwards. Charles took home $1,320 for his 9th place finish.
At 6:30 Richard Roberts flopped a set of queens against Mick Crowley and sent him home in eighth place with $1,760.
Two hands later Ram Vaswani eliminated Carl Bailey. They both flopped a pair of aces but Ram had him out kicked from the go and added insult to injury when he caught a second pair on the river. Carl was sent home in 7th place with $2,191.
After the break the level increased to $800-$1,600.
The chip leader was Richard Roberts with $81,500, Ram Vaswani was in second with $64,500, Terry Myers was in third with $38,200, Jim Sugarek was in fourth with $34,200, D’arcy Christiansen was in fifth with $5,000 and Tom Christopher was in last place with $4,200.
On the first hand after the break Tom Christopher raised all-in with K-K-9-4 and Richard called him with Ad-9d-7-8. The flop not only came with an ace, it came with two diamonds. There was no waiting the turn produced another diamond and Tom was sent to the rail in 6th place with $2,675.
At 7:30 D’arcy was all-in on the big blind for $1,600. Terry, Ram and Richard all called preflop. The flop came Q-7-K, Terry bet, Richard raised and Terry called all-in with his remaining $13,800. D’arcy showed 7-7-8-9 for a set of sevens, Terry turned over K-Q-J-7 for two pair and Richard turned over Q-Q-10-4 for a set of queens. The turn came a three and the river came a 10 and Richard’s trips held up. He eliminated both D’arcy and Terry.
D’arcy took 5th place and $3,075 and Terry took 4th place and $3,515.
It was three handed with Richard Roberts in the lead, Jim Sugarek in second place with $26,000 and Ram trailing with $22,300.
Two hands later Ram got all his money in against Richard. Ram showed 10-7-6-4 and Richard showed J-10-Q-9. The board came 6-9-8-5-7 giving Richard a straight on the River.
Ram Vaswani was sent home in 3rd place with $4,835.
It was heads up between Richard Roberts and Jim Sugarek. Jim had $26,000 in chips and Richard had all the rest.
On the third hand of heads up play Richard took the remainder of Jims chips. Richard showed Q-10-8-2 and Jim turned over A-A-10-5. Richard made a pair on the flop and two pair on the turn to beat Jim’s aces.
Jim Sugarek finished in 2nd place and collected $15,380.
Richard Roberts was declared the Pot Limit Omaha champ and pocketed $15,380.
Richard hails from Mesa, Arizona and claims this was his first attempt at a Pot Limit Omaha event. He also came in 2nd in the Orleans Championship No-limit hold’em event this past year for $78,000.
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