Izzy Einsidler Survives a Three-Way Cooler at Potomac
Pocket aces held against kings and queens in the $400 40/40 event as the field hit 197 and the prize pool reached $65,010 by dinner break.
Izzy Einsidler survived a three-way all-in cooler at the Potomac Summer Poker Open in Maryland when his pocket aces held against Henry Black’s kings and George Karmires’ queens in the $400 40/40 event.
PokerNews said the hand started with Black opening to 2,000 from the hijack at blinds of 500/1,000/1,000. Einsidler, identified as a Virginia grinder with $25,491, three-bet to 6,500 on the button, Karmires shoved from the small blind, and Black re-jammed. Once the action was capped, Einsidler was not going anywhere with pocket rockets.
The board ran A♦ 3♣ J♣, which immediately gave Einsidler a set. The 7♣ turn gave Black a flush draw, but the 2♥ river was safe and locked up a triple up for Einsidler. Karmires stood up and put on his backpack before the runout, then was eliminated shortly after the hand. Einsidler later said, “If a club would’ve come on the river, it would’ve ruined my day.”
The cooler came in a two-day $400 no-limit hold’em event with a $40,000 guarantee. At dinner break, the field had reached 197 players and the prize pool had climbed to $65,010, well past the guarantee. As covered in our earlier Potomac report on the Super Seniors event, the series had already produced a nine-way chop before this hand.
The broader Potomac Summer Poker Open runs August 5-17 at MGM National Harbor and is listed there as a 13-day series with more than $1.5 million in guaranteed prizes across 23 trophy events. Elsewhere in the room, the $3,000 Main Event had reached its final two tables.
