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Venkatesh Gupta eats chips for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
He recently opened to 6,000 from early position and Filippo Candio moved all in for 40,000 from the blinds. Gupta quickly called and the hands were tabled:
Gupta; 
Candio: 
The 
flop was a good sweat, but the 
on the turn closed the door a bit for Candio. The 
on the river slammed it shut, eliminating Candio from the tournament.
Gupta looks to be our chip leader with 311,000 chips.
Venkatesh Gupta opened to 6,000 from the cutoff seat, and Dustin Johns made the call from the button. In the big blind, Vittario Iemolo moved all in for 9,800 total. That raised a question from Gupta about whether or not the betting was re-opened for a reraise. The floor was called over to make the ruling that the reraise was 200 chips too light to constitute a full raise, so Gupta would only have the options to call or fold.
"Can I reraise?" Johns asked, drawing a quick chuckle from the table. He called the remaining 3,800 after Gupta did, and it was three ways to the flop with Iemolo at risk.
The board ran out 
with the two live players checking it down the whole way. Gupta turned up 
, and Johns shook his head to indicate that his hand was inferior.
"Can't beat that?!" Iemolo asked, surprised. "Seven is a monster!" With that, he flipped his 
, good enough to take down the full pot and triple him up over 30,000.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
You can't handle the chip counts!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
170,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
150,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
||
|
146,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
124,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
96,000
61,800
|
61,800 |
|
90,000 | |
|
85,000
46,100
|
46,100 |
|
|
||
|
83,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
|
77,000
38,600
|
38,600 |
|
71,000
-30,900
|
-30,900 |
|
60,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
|
60,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
|
|
57,000
26,200
|
26,200 |
|
55,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
||
|
|
50,000
25,900
|
25,900 |
|
40,000 | |
|
|
37,000
15,500
|
15,500 |
|
|
34,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
16,000
-23,100
|
-23,100 |
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier raised to 5,300 in late position, and Bobby Poe came along with the smooth call from the big blind.
Heads up, the flop came out 
, and both players checked. They did the same on the 
turn, and the 
filled out the board. Poe fired out a 7,500-chip stab, and ElkY called without much thought.
Poe showed his airball 
first, and ElkY tabled the winning 
to earn a little chip boost up to 113,000. Poe has slipped back to 57,000.
We walked up to a flop of 
just as Roy Winston was moving all in with 
. He was put to the test by Jason Adler who was in the lead with 
, and Winston would need to catch a card to stay alive.
Turn: 
Bink, as they say in the parlance of our times. The 
on the river was irrelevant as Winston's turned flush secured his double up. He's up to 133,000, leaving a disappointed Adler all the way down around 40,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
185,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
146,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
|
140,000
68,800
|
68,800 |
|
|
116,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
|
109,000
83,000
|
83,000 |
|
|
106,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
100,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
|
|
83,000
36,600
|
36,600 |
|
|
65,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
64,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
60,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
|
60,000
-40,000
|
-40,000 |
|
60,000
29,900
|
29,900 |
|
|
||
|
58,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
53,000
18,800
|
18,800 |
|
53,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
|
|
50,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
With about 30,000 chips in the middle and the board reading 
, Eric Moir bet enough to put Payman Arjang all in and Arjang called.
Moir: 
Arjang:
The turn and river came 
, 
respectively, and Arjang doubled to 80,000 chips. Moir is still in great shape though, he now sits with 280,000 chips.
Carl Merkling and Jessica Dawley tangled up in a preflop raising war that left Merkling all in for about 55,000, and Dawley making the call to put his tournament life on the line and a pot of about 110,000 chips up for grabs:
Merkling:
Dawley:
There was no funny stuff on the board of , and Merkling snags his double up. Dawley has now slipped down around into his chip range with 115,000 left in her stack.
Level 14 has come to an end and we are on a 60-minute dinner break. See ya then!
