Two PartyPoker qualifiers in final 57 of WSOP Main Event 2011

PartyPoker was represented by 3 online qualifiers at the start of day 6 of WSOP Main Event 2011.

Among the final 142 players were Jody Howe from Canada with 1,062,000 chips, Nicolas Fierro from Chile with 672,000 and short-stacked Robin Colbin from Sweden with 380,000.

Fierro went to over a million early on as he found himself all-in preflop with K♣ J♣ dominating Q♠ J♦ of his opponent.

Both Howe and Colbin were seated at the ESPN Feature Table getting themselves some TV time alongside last year’s November Niner Joseph Cheong.

Colbin went all-in from the small blind for about 350,000 with 6♦ 3♦ but got called by the third place finisher in the 2010 Main Event Joseph Cheong with K♥ 9♠. Colbin got lucky with the 6♠ on the river to keep himself alive in the tournament.

Fierro continued the good run picking up K♠ K♥, calling a preflop all-in from an opponent who had 8♠ 8♦.

Also Howe got to double-up when his pocket 4♠ 4♥ hit trips on the flop and got all-in versus a top pair.

Colbin won a great hand just before the dinner break with J♠ J♣ all-in preflop vs. A♦ 10♠. Colbin flopped a J♥ and got quads on the river with J♦, moving him over 1,6 million at the dinner.

At the dinner break our players were at:

Robin Colbin 1,655,000
Jody Howe 1,190,000
Nicolas Fierro 1,150,000

Unfortunately Colbin was knocked out in 84th place soon after the dinner break. He had A♥ A♣ and moved all-in on the flop of 8♠ 10♠ Q♠ but was called by Q♣ Q♥ and got no help on the turn or the river. Colbin got $76,146 for his efforts – impressive!

Howe found himself pretty short, but found A♠ A♦ when he needed them. Howe moved all-in, was called by Q♠ Q♦ and there was no Queen on the board.

Fierro flopped top 2 pair with 10♠ 8♥ on a flop of 10♦ 8♦ 4♥. His opponent had a straight-flush draw but luckily for Fierro didn’t hit it.

57 players out of starting 6865 survived the day 6 of the WSOP Main Event. The average chipstack is at 3,613,158 and each of the remaining 57 players are secured a minimum of $130,997.

PartyPoker’s online qualifier Nicolas Fierro is in with 3,800,000 and Jody Howe is in with 1,065,000.

WSOP Main Event continues with day 7 on Monday 18th July at 12 PM local time. We are playing down to the final 18 players.

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