Winner on Table...
Nam Le, Chau Giang, Mike Kaufman and Mikael Eder are all through to tomorrow.
Nam Le, Chau Giang, Mike Kaufman and Mikael Eder are all through to tomorrow.
The three remaining tables are on a twenty-minute break.
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 0
The cards are back in the air!
Pat Pezzin and Brandon "Drexel" Gerson have both won their tables here in Level 9.
We missed Gerson's hand, but Pezzin's last hand looked like this:
Showdown
Pezzin:
Opponent:
The board ran and Pezzin advanced to Day 2.
Tommy "Nhan" Le and Cornel Andrew Cimpan are still battling heads up at our last remaining table. The bets are big though, and with every pot chips are flying.
After a grueling, four-hour heads up match, we have a winner for Table 303.
Cornel Andrew Cimpan defeated Tommy "Nhan" Le with just five minutes remaining in Level 9. Cimpan held and Le needed help with .
The board ran and Cimpan's aces were good enough for the win sending him into tomorrow.
We started Day 1 of Event #53 with 548 runners and now we are down to 64. All of the remaining players are guaranteed $4,135, but are surely eyeing the $184,950 first-place prize and of course the gold bracelet.
Tomorrow, there will be eight eight-handed tables filled with very tough players. Among the returning players are Terrence Chan, Kirk Banks, Jonathan “FatalError” Aguiar, Jonathan Little, Pat Pezzin, Nam Le, Chau Giang, Barry Shulman and Yevgeniy “atimos” Timoshenko.
Be sure to check in at 3 p.m. PST where our coverage will resume and we will play down to an eight-handed final table!
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Theo Tran | 45,000 | |
Brian Tate | 45,000 | |
Jonathan Tamayo | 45,000 | |
Adam Tyburski | 45,000 | |
Timothy Vansant | 45,000 | |
John Esposito | 45,000 | |
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Yueqi Zhu | 45,000 | |
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Michael Schneider | 45,000 | |
Claudio Rinaldi | 45,000 | |
Jonathan Little | 45,000 | |
Bradley Libson | 45,000 | |
Marcel Luske | 45,000 | |
Omar Mehmood | 45,000 | |
Pat Pezzin | 45,000 | |
Gregg Merkow | 45,000 | |
Russell Cooper | 45,000 | |
David Besser
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45,000 | |
Bjorn Eder
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45,000 | |
Chau Giang | 45,000 | |
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Brandon Gerson | 45,000 | |
Cornel Cimpan | 45,000 | |
Steve Stolzmann
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45,000 | |
Nam Le | 45,000 | |
Andre Braender
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45,000 | |
Jason R Bellamy
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45,000 |
Event #53: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout
Day 1 Completed