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Andrew Cha, from Los Angeles, is at his fifth Run It Up Series. He’s been going to Run It Up for three years now and already has three Run It Up trophies in the bag. He took down all of his trophies at the same series in 2016. His poker history shows he’s been crushing one specific event in Reno: The Partners event. He got 1st in 0ctober 2016, 2nd in 0ctober 2017, and he managed to make the final table this year.
”I like it here, and I’ve done okey here. So that helps. We won the partners event in 2016. I got second the next year. And I’ve final tabled it this year, but with a different partner.”
Cha quit his job early in 2017 to follow his dream and was extremely close to get an opportunity to make a big step forward in his poker career. In fact, he was chip leader of the $86 Moneymaker Spectacular yesterday for most of the tournament, and started the final table second in chips, but when it mattered the most, he ran out of luck, and was eliminated in 6th place.
”Got it in very good against the guy who took third. He shoved 16 big blinds from the cutoff with king-jack off. I called from the big blind with king-queen off. I didn’t win. That was a really important one. And then two hands in a row I lost two really big flips. I shoved sixes under the gun, got called by ace-ten suited, did not win. That left me with 5 big blinds. Very next hand I’m in the big blind and I wake up with jacks. Get it in against ace-queen and don’t win. That was just my story. Made the final table but then started running really bad once I got there.”
Without winning a Pass, Cha does not plan to go to the Bahamas. However, he is not giving up yet.
” I’m still in the winners freeroll on Monday and that’s honestly the most important tournament of the trip for me. We’re going to do everything we can to win that. Hopefully we can get there.”
Will he manage to get a Platinum Pass?! We will find out on Monday!
