Action folded to Jacob Toole in the small blind and he raised to an even one million. That's a cool trick you can do when you have a ton of chips and the only player left in the big blind has 130,000. Cary Katz was that player in the big blind and he made the call to put his tournament life on the line.
Katz: 
Toole: 
The board ran out 
and Katz was able to double up.
Travis Pearson was all in preflop for around 350,000 with 
against the 
of Mike Leah, who had about the same amount of chips. The pot was worth around 750,000 and Leah was in a dominating position. The 
flop changed nothing and neither did the 
flop. Pearson needed a jack to stay alive but the river was the 
. Leah improved to a straight to take down the pot and increase his stack to 750,000 while Pearson was eliminated from the tournament.
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Tom Middleton was up close to 400,000 chips when he ran his ace-jack into the 
of Jimmie Guinther. There was nothing to sweat on the board that ran 
, and Middleton has been sent to the cashier.
Guinther is up over a million and a half now.
Jason Mercier has it out for Joe Tehan. We've seen the Team PokerStars Pro reraise Tehan a few times, even cold four-betting him once in the last level. The break has not dampened that vendetta from Mercier.
We just watched Tehan open another pot to 40,000, and sure enough, Mercier three-bet him to 108,000. It's possible Tehan is noticing the same thing we did, because he spent several long minutes in the tank as he cut down his own stack. He couldn't call though, eventually uncapping his cards and releasing them into the muck.
Mercier is up over 800,000 now; look out!
Mike Sowers got himself all in for just over 200,000 with pocket threes, and he seemed content to flip for double or nothing against Christopher DeMaci's ace-queen.
Sowers like the 
flop just fine, but the 
turn was a disaster that left him drawing to just two outs for his survival. The river 
was not the out he as looking for, and Sowers has been eliminated in 29th place.
DeMaci - 1.55 million
Michael Binger got all of his chips, nearly 500,000 of them, all in preflop with 
against the 
of Travis Pearson. Binger was the one at risk as the flop fell 
. The 
on the turn gave Pearson some outs, but the 
on the river was not one of them. Pearson dropped to 500,000 while Binger is up to 1 million.
Meanwhile, Steven Karp was eliminated over at another table. Karp was extremely short-stacked at the break with just 14,000.
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,000,000 | 700,000 |
|
1,900,000 | 250,000 |
|
|
1,400,000 | 810,000 |
|
1,352,000 | 27,000 |
|
1,159,000 | -41,000 |
|
1,000,000 | -260,000 |
|
925,000 | 500,000 |
|
920,000 | 20,000 |
|
851,000 | -49,000 |
|
785,000 | 61,000 |
|
765,000 | 345,000 |
|
750,000 | 50,000 |
|
575,000 | 425,000 |
|
575,000 | 295,000 |
|
505,000 | -220,000 |
|
495,000 | 13,000 |
|
|
460,000 | -90,000 |
|
|
440,000 | 90,000 |
|
435,000 | -135,000 |
|
415,000 | -185,000 |
|
410,000 | -230,000 |
|
400,000 | -145,000 |
|
|
378,000 | 148,000 |
|
341,000 | -54,000 |
|
330,000 | -175,000 |
Players are now on a break.
Jimmie Guinther raised to 30,000 from middle position to start things off. Chris DeMaci reraised to 84,000 from the cutoff seat to make things a little more expensive. Paul Kuzmich was on the button and moved all in for a little over 400,000. Action folded back to Guinther. He folded and then DeMaci made the quick call.
DeMaci:
Kuzmich:
The board ran out 
and DeMaci faded a straight draw on the turn as well as a nine to win the pot and move to 1.325 million in chips. Kuzmich hit the rail in 33rd place.
