Lichtenberger Gets Coolered and Crippled

The action started with Bradley Yazici opening to 21,000. A couple spots to his left, Andrew Lichtenberger, raised it to 51,000. It was folded back to Yazici who four-bet it to 125,000. Lichtenberger, who had maneuvered his stack up over the half-million chip mark, thought for a few moments and announced he was all in. Yazici beat him into the pot and with good reason as he had . Lichtenberger was the victim of an unfortunate cooler with his .

The board would run out and Yazici, who won the HPO Regional Championship tournament in Grantville, PA, doubled up to 850,000 in chips while Lichtenberger dropped all the way down to 100,000.