Traylor Destroyed
Michael Traylor can forget those dreams of back-to-back Main Event final tables. The last check on his stack finds him at, well, zero, and about 60,000 extra chips in the stack of his neighbor Ari Engel.
We inquired, and Engel was more than happy to tell us the story -- or what he remembered of the story. "I had ace-king and he had pocket tens. All in preflop." Fair enough, Ari. We asked him what card he paired so that we could report a few more details at least, but the question was more of a stumper than we'd anticipated. Neither Engel nor any of his table mates could recall which card he paired, but it doesn't really matter if we're honest. The long and short of it is that Traylor lost his race with tens, ending his day and his shot at a second consecutive WSOPC Main Event final table.
Engel is sitting with well over 125,000 chips now.