Level 7 (Blinds 250/500/75)
Total Day 1B Entries: 628
Sean Ripp (Massapequa, NY)
As we were at Table 36 talking to daily fantasy sports aficionado Alex Rocha, he would look over towards the table and say, “What’s going on over here?” Rocha was refencing a hand that was going on between Joe Liberta and Sean Ripp. The two players were on the river of a board reading {4h} {6d} {8c} {ad} {5d}, and Liberta sitting with a 7,800 bet in front of him (pot was about 20-25,000).
Ripp then took a small pile of blue t5,000 chips, added a few other colors, and casually tossed in a raise to 40,500. Liberta looked over to Ripp…looked back at his cards…and pushed the hand towards the muck. As the dealer began pushing the pot to Ripp, he exposed the {jc}, leaving Liberta (and the rest of the table) to question what he had.
Ripp is close to tripe the starting stack after taking down that hand, while Liberta is still far from danger, right around the 35,000 mark.