With the rapid elimination of several players, the field has now been trimmed to 25 which means they are now on the money/bag bubble and hand-for-hand play is in effect.
Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
With just 29 players left in Day 1b, they are only five eliminations away from being in the money!
After a preflop betting war, all the chips got into the middle between Leslie Autenreith and Kyle Kitagawa, who covered.
Leslie Autenreith: A♠K♠
Kyle Kitagawa: A♦K♥
Both players shared a laugh as they both tabled the same hand, but the smile quickly vanished from Kitagawa's face as the board ran out 3♣7♣Q♠J♠6♠ to give Autenreith a backdoor flush for all of the chips.
Left extremely short, Kitagawa exited soon after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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255,000 | |
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Busted | |
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On a heads-up flop turn of 10♣5♥9♠6♠, Eric Helton had bet 40,000 into the pot of 110,000 and was called by Robert Fortuno.
The river came the 6♦, pairing the board, and Helton decided to check over to Fortuno who then moved all in for his remaining 67,000. After some head scratching, Helton decided to let his hand go and the pot was awarded to Fortuno.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
349,000 | |
|
190,000 |
On a heads-up flop turn of 10♣5♥9♠6♠, Eric Helton had bet 40,000 into the pot of 110,000 and was called by Robert Fortuno.
The river came the 6♦, pairing the board, and Helton decided to check over to Fortuno who then moved all in for his remaining 67,000. After some head scratching, Helton decided to let his hand go and the pot was awarded to Fortuno.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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349,000 | |
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190,000
-15,500
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-15,500 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
With 48 entrants already, the final flight of the Main Event, Day 1c, is officially underway. Coverage of this flight will be picked up later this evening after registration has closed.
Abe DeGuzman opened to 10,000 and was then three-bet by Michael Briggs to 43,000.
When the action folded back to DeGuzman, he thought about it for a few seconds before he made the call.
On the flop of 4♦4♠2♣, Briggs continued for 55,000, which DeGuzman called and the two continued to the turn A♥.
Both players then decided to slow down as the action went check-check, and they saw the river fall the 6♠. The action checked through once more and Briggs tabled 10♠10♦, but it was no good as DeGuzman had him the whole way with Q♠Q♣.
DeGuzman was then shipped the substantial pot of close to 200,000 to bring his stack to over 400,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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405,000
105,000
|
105,000 |
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195,000
-98,000
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-98,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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410,000
269,000
|
269,000 |
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300,000
135,000
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135,000 |
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293,000
50,500
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50,500 |
