The Rise and Fall of Kessler's Stack

@AllenKessler is among the late-arrivals for Day 1B of the @HPTpoker $1650 Main Event @Gates_Poker, beginning his play at the start of Level 4 when the day's first break ended.

He apparently added almost 20,000 to his stack in the first 40 minutes of play, only to see the majority of it disappear in one hand.

We'll let Allen explain in 280-or-fewer characters or less.

My bad luck continues in Blackhawk. @hptpoker main event. Cruising with 50k stack thru 5 levels. 3 limpers at 400. I squeeze to 2700 from sb. Somehow j9 off calls and shoves flop. Cmon. Still fighting with 15k. pic.twitter.com/1Jrl9Vux33

— Allen Kessler (@AllenKessler) February 15, 2019

The player who called? Jason Mangold ..


Level - 5
BB Ante - 400
Blinds - 200/400
Entries - 169

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