bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series $2,500 Main Event | 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series

03-28-2021 14:42 UTC-4

Chip Counts from the Other Half

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Arbaugh	924,000	59,000
James Calderaro	576,000	96,000
Johnny Landreth	534,000	81,000
Nate Bandy	520,000	95,000
Paul Petraglia	404,000	119,000
William Thomas	309,000	-26,000
Sean Conklin	299,000	170,000
Jesse Jones	170,000
Zach Gruneberg	152,000	-144,000
Jermaine Gerlin	150,000	-65,000
Steve Zhang	126,000	-40,000
Gloria Jackson	126,000
Dustin Holladay	105,000	-32,000
Todd Davis	102,000	-59,000
John Gorsuch	93,000	-17,000

03-28-2021 14:39 UTC-4

Alex Ortiz Wins Event #3: $360 NLH With $100 Bounties

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Event #3 of the 2021 bestbet Jacksonville Spring Series saw 194 entries, all of whom had a $100 bounty placed atop their heads from their $360 buy-in. The lion's share of the $58,200 prize pool was decided by heads-up chop between Alex Ortiz and Lawrence Brown, with Ortiz being declared the winner and earning $13,330 and Brown taking $8,808 for his performance.

All eight final table contestants earned at least $1,690 with the top 12 places earning at least a four-figure score. Cheryl Gruden (3rd - $6,560) was the only other player besides Ortiz and Brown to take home more than $5,000.

The top 26 places were paid in total. Richard Evans (20th - $673), Guy Caudill (14th - $921), and Rodney Turvin ($1,107) were among those on the payout list that did not make the final table.

Event #3 Results

Place	Player	Hometown	Prize
1	Alex Ortiz	San Juan, Puerto Rico	$13,330*
2	Lawrence Brown	Dallas, Texas	$8,808*
3	Cheryl Gruden	Atlantic Beach, Florida	$6,560
4	Kenneth Taffaro	Mooresville, North Carolina	$4,838
5	Scott Hudson	Timberlank, North Carolina	$3,627
6	Harold Lam	Jupiter, Florida	$2,764
7	Steven Oliver	Fort Valley, Georgia	$2,143
8	Troy Hoisington	Hilton Head, South Carolina	$1,690

_{*Denotes heads-up deal.}

03-28-2021 14:37 UTC-4

Chip Counts from Half the Room

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Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Cartwright	749,000	-15,000
Jake Ferro	747,000	582,000
Steven Payten	540,000	335,000
Tyler Phillips	446,000	126,000
Hal Rotholz	440,000	-25,000
Maheshwar Linga	439,000	19,000
Kobzyev Kyrylo	400,000	56,000
Justin Bold	267,000	222,000
Dom Mosley	246,000	-174,000
Stephen Strout	155,000	20,000
David Jackson	154,000	14,000
Byron Kaverman	142,000	-113,000
Warren Teal	125,000	-150,000
Kelly Joe Andrews	119,000	23,000
Justin Horne	114,000	-130,000
Anthony Askey	108,000	-279,000

Level: 18

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

03-28-2021 14:18 UTC-4

Break Time

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Players are on their first 15-minute break of the day.

03-28-2021 14:13 UTC-4

Four Tables Remain

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Four recent eliminations has brought the field down to 31, meaning four tables now remain in play. One such recent elimination was that of Chad DeBerry, whose hand of wound up no good by the river against the of Kyle Cartwright on a board of .

Moments earlier, Justin Zaki was eliminated by William Thomas in an all-in preflop situation as well.

Justin Zaki:
William Thomas:

Aces and tens came on the runout to counterfeit Zaki's sevens. Phuong Ta and Le Tieu were the other two to fall.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Cartwright	764,000	109,000
William Thomas	335,000	102,000
Le Tieu	Busted
Chad DeBerry	Busted
Phuong Ta	Busted
Justin Zaki	Busted

03-28-2021 14:04 UTC-4

Sumner Toasted

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Jack Sumner was just seen standing up from his seat with no chips in front of him any longer. On his way to the payouts, he said he ran ace-queen into Kyle Cartwright's ace-king and did not get there.

Sumner's elimination follows those of Nick Raio, Derek Bowers, and Jose Reyes, all of whom earned paydays of $5,049 and 35 players now remain.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Cartwright	655,000	80,000
Jack Sumner	Busted
Nick Raio	Busted
Derek Bowers	Busted
Jose Reyes	Busted

Tags: Derek Bowers Jack Sumner Jose Reyes Nick Raio Kyle Cartwright

03-28-2021 13:58 UTC-4

Tieu Doubles Through Cartwright

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Action folded around to Kyle Cartwright in the small blind, who announced he was all in. Le Tieu was in the big blind with 84,000 and pushed it forward to call.

Le Tieu:
Kyle Cartwright:

Cartwright jokingly extended his hand to shake Tieu's and tell him it was nice playing with him, resulting in Tieu bursting out in laughter as he refused to shake Cartwright's hand with the implication he wasn't going anywhere. His implication was correct as the runout left his hand best to score the double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Cartwright	575,000	-26,000
Le Tieu	176,000	92,000

Tags: Kyle Cartwright Le Tieu

03-28-2021 13:49 UTC-4

Arbaugh Continues Climbing

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Brian Arbaugh defended his big blind versus an 18,000 open from Zach Gruneberg, who was in the hijack. The flop came and Arbaugh check-called Gruneberg's continuation-bet of 16,000. The turn was and Arbaugh check-called another 36,000 before action went check-check on the river to take the hand to showdown.

Arbaugh showed for kings up and got a muck from Gruneberg to earn him the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Arbaugh	865,000	175,000
Zach Gruneberg	296,000	36,000

Tags: Brian Arbaugh Zach Gruneberg

03-28-2021 13:42 UTC-4

Chip Count Update

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Level 17 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Thirty-nine players still remain. Here's a look at some updated chip counts from around the room.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hal Rotholz	465,000	231,000
Johnny Landreth	453,000	43,000
Maheshwar Linga	420,000	163,000
Dom Mosley	420,000	295,000
Jesse Jones	397,000	6,000
Byron Kaverman	255,000	145,000
Justin Horne	244,000	120,000
William Thomas	233,000	32,000
Steven Payten	205,000	87,000
Jake Ferro	165,000	-83,000
Stephen Strout	135,000	-180,000
Gloria Jackson	126,000	-56,000
John Gorsuch	110,000	59,000
Derek Bowers	80,000	-223,000
Justin Bold	45,000	-34,000