Frank Funaro wpt Frank Funaro of Sewell, New Jersey has been a young gun on the rise. The East Coast grinder, who used to be a staple at Atlantic City’s Borgata, had a career year in 2021 with $586,340 in tournament earnings. He’s following it up with another big year in 2022 where he’s not only amassed more than a quarter million in earnings but also shipped both a World Series of Poker (WSOP) ring and bracelet .
PokerNews recently caught up with Funaro, who made a deep run in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) $3,500 Championship at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in South Florida. Unfortunately for Funaro, his quest at a WPT title ended in 48th place (out of 1,541 runners) after a rather ugly bad beat. “They Barry Greenstein-ed Me”
According to updates from the event , the hand took place in Level 21 (15,000/25,000/25,000) when Funaro raised from the hijack and Jakub Paulik shopped for around 1.3 million from the button.
Funaro snap-called with pocket aces and Paulik tabled six-four. Unfortunately for Funaro, a six appeared on the flop and a four followed on the turn to give Paulik two pair and the double. Funaro was left with just 80,000 while Paulik doubled to 2.6 million, one of the biggest stacks in the tournament. “I feel like it’s been happening to me a lot recently, but I’m used to it.” “He was in a big pot blind-versus-blind and I think he maybe got a little frustrated,” Funaro said of the hand. “I opened the two hands before and he shoved from the big blind, and the next time I opened he shoved again.”
While Funaro is a seasoned professional, do such beats still sting?
“It definitely does,” he admitted. “I guess I’m used to this. The same thing sort of happened a couple of WPTs ago. Aces against eights. I feel like it’s been happening to me a lot recently, but I’m used to it.”
Funaro was able to spin his four bigs up to a 20-big-blind stack before busting jacks against ace-king. He […]
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