Registration was closed for this event following the second level, and we finally have some numbers for you.
A total of 654 runners turned up for Event #9 this year, an increase of 21 players over last year's field. Their entries created a prize pool worth $877,500, and 63 places will pay out cash prizes with the bottom payout level being worth $2,851.
The real money is at the final table where each of the last nine players will be guaranteed at least $14,715. The top two spots are each good for six-figure scores, and the lucky winner will be rewarded with a shiny gold bracelet along with $197,470 in cash. Not too shabby.
The full breakdown of the prizepool will magically appear in the "Payouts" tab momentarily.
Time flies when you're having fun. Two more levels have come and gone, and the players are filing out for a 20-minute break. We'll do the same; back shortly.
Andy Black opened with a raise from middle position, and Justin Bonomo reraised the pot. Black made the call, and heads up they went.
The flop came out , and Bonomo led out with a bet of 2,000. Black moved all in over the top, and Bonomo quickly called to put the Irishman at risk of elimination and in need of some help:
Black:
Bonomo:
Brick-brick is the rest of the story as the turn and river came and respectively. Unable to find help cards for his draws, Andy Black has been knocked off just as the second break approaches.
In a battle of the blinds, Jim Collopy got himself all in before the flop with . His opponent in the small blind held , and the race was on.
Collopy's horse ran too slowly as the dealer ran out a board full of blanks: . This is the first WSOP for "Mr_BigQueso", and he won't be making his first final table here in this event; he's out.
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, and Bonomo led out with a bet of 2,000. Black moved all in over the top, and Bonomo quickly called to put the Irishman at risk of elimination and in need of some help:
and 
respectively. Unable to find help cards for his draws, Andy Black has been knocked off just as the second break approaches.
, in good shape to notch a double against Igor Yoffe and his 
.
, and five spades make Yoffe the winning flush. That's all she wrote for ElkY today.
. This is the first WSOP for "Mr_BigQueso", and he won't be making his first final table here in this event; he's out.