New Chip In Play
The tournament staff is bringing in a new chip, and it's the gold T25,000.
The tournament staff is bringing in a new chip, and it's the gold T25,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Derrick Yamada |
150,000
-70,000
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-70,000 |
Chris Bratene |
80,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Jay Newnum |
77,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Steve Firestone |
50,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
Michael Taylor |
39,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
Ryan Riess | Busted | |
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Toan Nguyen | Busted | |
Jamie Shaevel | Busted |
A player raised to 10,000 from the hijack, then the player in the cutoff reraised to 27,000. Jason Bundy was on the button and he made the call. Action folded back to the original raiser who also made the call.
On the flop, the first two players checked, the Bundy decided to make a bet of 45,000. Everyone folded.
Someone at the table asked Bundy to show the bluff and he obliged, turning up . Bundy is now right around 260,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jason Bundy |
260,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
Erik Roussakis got the last of his stack in the middle preflop, holding , and he was in great shape against the of our former chip leader David Malka.
Roussakis had Malka drawing nearly dead after the flop came down . Malka would need to catch runner runner, but the didn't do that. The river was the , and Roussakis collected the double up to 183,000, while Malka was knocked down to 570,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Malka |
570,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
Erik Roussakis |
183,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
We didn't catch the action, but we saw that Sam Barnhart was all in preflop holding . He was racing for his tournament life, as Sean Riley held . Riley caught a jack on the flop, and another one on the river for good measure, and he collected the bounty, upping his stack to 310,000.
Meanwhile, Barnhart will have to settle for a min cash here in LA
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sean Riley |
320,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
Sam Barnhart | Busted |
The competitive rivalry between Doug Lee and James Woods is over now that Lee has eliminated the Oscar-nominated actor from the tournament.
Leading up to Woods' last hand, we witnessed a few instances where Woods raised preflop and then folded to Lee's three-bet shove. This time, according to Lee, Woods raised to 14,000, and Lee raised all-in again with . Woods ended up calling it off with .
The board came according to Lee, and that was enough to give him the elimination and send Woods packing.
"He must've gotten tilted because I did this to him before," Lee said afterward.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Doug Lee |
300,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
James Woods | Busted |
Title says it all. When we lose one more player, we will be in the money.
Daniels and Lenaghan definitely have the two biggest stacks at their table, but they are still mixing it up here close to the bubble.
In a recent hand, with the flop reading , action had checked to Lenaghan on the button. He put out a bet of 16,500. The player in the small blind folded, but Daniels made the call from the cutoff.
The turn came the and action went check, check.
On the river, Daniels made a bet of 28,500 and Lenaghan quickly mucked.
After the hand Lenaghan is sitting on roughly 310,000 while Daniels has a stack of around 245,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ryan Lenaghan |
310,000
136,000
|
136,000 |
Shawn Daniels |
245,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
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We will post photos of these players momentarily, but here is a list of some of the top counts in the room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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David Malka |
630,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Joe Tehan |
600,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
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David Randall |
510,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Mack Lee | 450,000 | |
Rupesh Pattni |
435,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Dien Le | 350,000 | |
Jason Bundy |
350,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
The clock says 85 players remaining, and since 81 are making the money, that means we are close to the money bubble. Hand-for-hand play will commence shortly, and we will soon have our bubble boy.