Matt Savage Eliminated -- Three Times

Feb 19, 2021

Matt Savage Eliminated by Chiqiao

From the hijack, chiqiao raises, WPT Executive Tour Director Matt Savage reraises from the cutoff to 10,600, and chiqiao calls.

The flop comes Heart 4Heart 2Diamond 2, chiqiao checks, Savage bets big, and chiqiao moves all in.

Savage calls with Spade ADiamond J for ace high, and he’s in the lead at the moment against chiqiao’s Heart 10Heart 9 (flush draw).

The turn card is the Heart Q, the river card is the Spade 7, and chiqiao turns a heart flush to win the pot and eliminate Savage, collecting his ¥1,500 bounty.

chiqiao  –  114,600  (57 bb)
Matt Savage  –  Eliminated

Matt Savage tells us that this was actually his third elimination today (awarding three ¥1,500 bounties), coming in rapid succession.

Savage says he started off on a high note, doubling up in his first hand after he got it all in on a flop of X 8X 6X 6 with X AX 6 (trip sixes) against his opponent’s X AX K. And he built it up even further from there.

But then he three-bet it preflop to 10,600 with Heart AX 5 in a three-way pot, and the flop came Heart 8Heart 4Heart 2. Savage bet 27,000, and both players called.

The turn card was the Diamond 10, and Savage shoved his remaining 40,000 or so — and one of his opponent’s snap-called with X 2X 2 for a set of deuces. There was no heart on the river for Savage, and that was his first of three eliminations today.

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