Perhaps feeling the squeeze of his sinking stack, he picked a bad time to shove with fives after a jack-high flop, as Pengelly had flopped top set for basically a zero-sweat knockout in a huge pot. This time, he got there by pairing up on the river against start-of-day leader Johnny Deas, and he was back in business.ĭeas had a miserable Day 2 as it was almost all downhill after the first half hour or so. Reduced to one of the shortest stacks, Pengelly waited for his spot and then got in a big flip with ace-king suited, once again flopping a combo draw. Both times, he bricked out, the second one especially costly as he got stacks in against Dean Baranowski's top two. After the elimination of short stack Brian Green almost right away, Pengelly twice picked up queen-ten suited and flopped open-enders with flush draws. It certainly didn't look like the lotto was going to land on Pengelly's lucky number early. "Many people enter and one player wins a lot of money. "I think of tournaments kind of like the lottery," he said. He decided to take a shot in the WinStar Main despite never having cashed in a tournament after a nice run in the local cash games. Cash games are Pengelly's bread and butter, as he's been grinding at WinStar since he turned 18.
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