The finale of Event #1: $600 DeepStack Kick-Off NLH begins at 12 noon with 31 returning players. Jerry Maher leads the field with nearly 12 million chips (100 big blinds).
Play will resume with Level 30, Blinds 60,000/120,000/120,000 BB Ante.
Vivian Leslie was a short stack at the start of play and one of only two players with fewer than 1 million chips.
She held on as long as she could, but finally got her last chips (~2 big blinds) in holding 
. Soheb Porbandarwala looked her up with 
and caught a three on the board to take the pot.
Leslie will collect $6,302 for 28th place, just missing the pay jump. The next player eliminated will collect $8,135.
Her departure also means that Alida Veliu is the last woman sitting in this event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,300,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
Busted |
Alida Veliu was the last woman in this event and got her chips in good holding pocket eights against Big Slick. Unfortunately her opponent spiked a king on the river to take the pot.
Veliu finished 17th for $10,312.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
The 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship winner Jackob Datashvili was eliminated in 15th place when his pocket kings fell to 
. An ace on the flop was all it took to send his chips across the felt to Kirkwood Saccardo, who is crushing his table.
He'll collect $13,177 for his 15th place finish.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
16,000,000
10,975,000
|
10,975,000 |
|
Busted |
Steven Phillips jammed with pocket deuces, only to run into the pocket jacks of Constantinos Psallidas.
To add insult to injury, the flop fell 
giving Psallidas a full house. When the case deuce failed to appear, Phillips was gone in 11th place ($17,760).
Ten players remain and according to a rule change made this series, the final table redraw will not take place until they reach the final nine players. For now, they're playing with two five-handed tables.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
16,000,000
8,600,000
|
8,600,000 |
|
Busted |
Emanuele "Manny" Gugliuzza watched his stack dwindle all day and finally put the last of it in with 
, getting action from big stack Kirkwood Saccardo, who had 
.
An ace on the flop, of course, sent the pot to Saccardo and his big stack continued to get bigger. Gugliuzza hit the rail in 10th place, earning $17,760.
The final nine players are redrawing for the final table, then taking a break with about a half-hour remaining in the current level.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
24,400,000
6,800,000
|
6,800,000 |
|
Busted |
On the last hand of the level, LJ Sande got his short-stack all-in on a flop of 
against Brian Morgan.
Morgan: 
Sande: 
Sande was drawing to a gutshot or back-door flush, while Morgan was out in front with his overpair. Then Sande binked the 
on the turn to make the straight, leaving Morgan drawing dead. Sande doubled up and headed out for the break along with the rest of the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
12,200,000
-4,050,000
|
-4,050,000 |
|
8,200,000
5,700,000
|
5,700,000 |
Patrick Luu shoved all-in under-the-gun and action folded around to Zarko Mandic in the big blind, who looked him up.
Luu: 
Mandic: 
Board: 
Mandic's pocket queens held up and he took the pot and the chip lead. Luu will collect $27,500 for his 9th place finish.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
24,500,000
9,700,000
|
9,700,000 |
|
Busted |
In a blind vs. blind confrontation, Ryan Teixeira was all-in from the big holding 
against the 
of Ricardo Eyzaguirre (sb).
The board ran out clean, until the river that is: 
. Eyzaguirre paired his King to take the pot.
Teixeira hit the exit in 8th place, earning $42,945 for a few days work!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
13,700,000
-1,100,000
|
-1,100,000 |
|
Busted |
Brian Morgan opened from the middle and Jerry Maher came along from the small blind to see the flop fall 
. They both checked to see the 
pair the board on the turn. Maher checked, Morgan tossed in 2 million, Maher raised to 5 million, then Morgan came over the top. Maher let it go.
"Here you go, Jerry," said Morgan, tossing his 
on the felt (flopped set, turned boat) for the courtesy show.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
21,000,000
8,800,000
|
8,800,000 |
|
9,000,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
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