We caught up to find Noah Vaillancourt set Ricky Barker all in on a flop of . Barker called off his tournament life and Vaillancourt showed . Barker slammed his chips down on the table and flippe dup for a worse pocket pair.
The turn and the river were of no help to Barker and his tournament life came to an end. Vaillancourt, however, was able to boost his stack to about 655,000.
With the $1,050 No-Limit Hold'em Bounty side event going on, the internet signal in the room isn't the best with so many people connected to the network. As a result, our updates may be a bit sporadic.
The prize pool information for this event has officially been released. With a total prize pool of $2,788,000 first place is guaranteed a payday of $651,559. For more information on the prize pool, see our handy-dandy Payouts tab above.
Heath Herring was recently eliminated from the tournament when he moved all in from the button with . Unfortunately for Herring, the player in the big blind woke up with and Herring was unable to improve his hand.
We found David "Doc" Sands and Anne McClelland looking down at a board of . McClelland bet 25,000 and Sands called. The completed the board and McCelland continued her aggression with a bet of 40,000. Sands mulled over the decision for over a minute before calling the bet.
McClelland showed and Sands flipped up for a pair of jacks and the best hand. He's currently sitting at about 220,000.
Concurrently at the next table over we saw Robert Salaburu scooping a double up with on a board that read . Salaburu is at roughly 200,000 in chips.
. Barker called off his tournament life and Vaillancourt showed 
. Barker slammed his chips down on the table and flippe dup 
for a worse pocket pair.
turn and the 
river were of no help to Barker and his tournament life came to an end. Vaillancourt, however, was able to boost his stack to about 655,000.
. Unfortunately for Herring, the player in the big blind woke up with 
completed the board and McCelland continued her aggression with a bet of 40,000. Sands mulled over the decision for over a minute before calling the bet.
and Sands flipped up 
for a pair of jacks and the best hand. He's currently sitting at about 220,000.
. Salaburu is at roughly 200,000 in chips.