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I just finished watching the WPT Championship event and the chip leader heading into the final table, James Van Alstyne, had a pretty bad meltdown. But given the WPT blinds structure, it's not too horrible a meltdown. Another pretty bad final table meltdown happened during the 2002 WSOP where Shipley had 30% of the chips at start of final table.Any other really bad meltdowns that I'm misssing?

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2004 USPC at the Taj, john dagositino took like 5 bad beats in a row, going from chip leader of over 1mil over 2nd place to busting out like 7th
Yeah, that was quite bad. If I remember correctly, he lost most of it when he called Corkins all-in with pocket tens against Corkins' 8-7 only for Corkins to flop trips.
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Someone may have to help me out here, unless I can find the quote myself.On one of the 2005 WSOP prelim events on ESPN the heads up match was pretty one sided, and one of the commentators talked about a recent tournament where a guy held an 87-1 chip lead going into heads up and ended up losing! That's got to be up there as one of the worst.I'll have a look now to find it, unless someone beats me to it.

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Andy Black had a significant chiplead at last year's WSOP final table. He managed to donk it all away with pocket 10's and ended up in 4th or 5th.
The only 'donking' he did was probably against Kanter's kings. He took some brutal beats.
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Im sorry but you must be the worst member of this form, and your posts should have warning on them with the disgusting pictures that come with them. Keep leibert to yourself please. Also, are you a man. no way
Are you freakin serious!?!?!?!? Kathy Leibert puts the lead singer of the ***** Cat Dolls to shame. I would get a Weanie Wash from her any day of the week!
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though i'm not famous.. i had a pretty good blow up in March in the Super Weekday.. I had chip lead going to FT.. first got 43k... as many of you know.. these tournies have such low Ms even at the final table.. I ended up taking 7th after I overplayed 10s on a non scary board .. still steaming!

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Scott Lazar"I'll give you a gamble, I call!" w/Q10
In a 45-man SNG I had about 65,000 and my opponent had like 2000 chips.Pretty ugly. Thought I had it in the bag.
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Yeah, that was quite bad. If I remember correctly, he lost most of it when he called Corkins all-in with pocket tens against Corkins' 8-7 only for Corkins to flop trips.
Even though this was pretty bad, the very next hand he would have lost it all anyway when he had pocket kings and pocket queens caught a queen on flop.He was destined to be a loser.just saying
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Even though this was pretty bad, the very next hand he would have lost it all anyway when he had pocket kings and pocket queens caught a queen on flop.He was destined to be a loser.just saying
And the guy had pocket jacks and the guy hit a set too.
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Think Scotty Had a pretty big chip lead in a tourny, and Gavin Smith managed to blow a decent chip lead at the Mirage Showdown with something like 4 bluffs gone bad where it was one of those" well I have to call now"

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Day%203%20Update%202.jpgI was the chip leader with about 25 to 30 players left, out of 381, in a WPT main event six months ago and I only finished in 17th place. I wasn't playing to inch up the standings; I was playing to win. It wasn't the worst meltdown that I've seen, but it's the one that I remember best. Each hand that played out to the river was usually worth $100,000 in chips or more.
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These big losses are quite common if you go by 6 or 7 redhotpokertour tournaments last season.Typically there are 200-300K in chips in total (4000x60 players plus exchanged white chips) and I've personally had 1K vs 264K (shared between 4-5 other players) and come back to have the big stack heads up (but I finished 2nd).Twice I've had bounced off zero (and a small stack of 4-6K; 4 players left) to win a tournament; and I've seen others do this too (2K vs 7 other players to start final table).I've lost to a guy who had 2K to my 264K also... it only takes 5 hands in a row if the antes are high enough. He hit quads and full houses, in case you are wondering...Heads up is usually 5K-10K blinds or 8K-16K blinds with ridiculously high antes.

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Ivey blew a big lead against Lisandro in 2005.He seemed bored though and looked like he just wanted to go home.
i remember that, was that one of the circuit events
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