Bryn Kenney open shoved his last 200,000 and Kevin MacPhee re-popped from the small blind for heaps more. Charlie Carrell folded the big blind and it was Kenney's ![]()
versus MacPhee's ![]()
.
MacPhee held to send Kenney home 16th on an ![]()
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run out.
Bryn Kenney open shoved his last 200,000 and Kevin MacPhee re-popped from the small blind for heaps more. Charlie Carrell folded the big blind and it was Kenney's ![]()
versus MacPhee's ![]()
.
MacPhee held to send Kenney home 16th on an ![]()
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run out.
Here's the line up of the final two tables, 3 from the money:
| Seat | Table 1 | Table 2 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viacheslav Goryachev | Senh Ung |
| 2 | Ryan Riess | Kevin MacPhee |
| 3 | Demetrio Barreca | Charlie Carrel |
| 4 | Sergey Lebedev | Fernando Brito |
| 5 | Jason Wheeler | Francois Billard |
| 6 | Paul Tedeschi | Dominik Nitsche |
| 7 | Jeff Rossiter | Bryn Kenney |
| 8 | Mark Radoja | Daniel Dvoress |
Parker Talbot open shoved the button and Mark Radoja made the call from the small blind having him covered.
Talbot's tournament life was riding on the ![]()
versus Radoja's dominating ![]()
. Radoja held to send Talbot to the rail 17th on a ![]()
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board.
With that, just 16 players remain and they are now seated at the final two eight-handed tables with 20 minutes to go before the dinner break.
Jyri Merivirta and Francois Billard got it in with the classic pre flop match up: ![]()
(Merivirta) against ![]()
(Billard).
The ![]()
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flop was about as good as they could come for Merivirta, but the turn (
) and river (
) spoiled his party.
Merivirta was left with 23,000, and lost those the next hand.
Under the gun, Bryan Paris shoved all in for 231,000. Action folded to Senh Ung in the small blind and he asked for a count. He then called, and Dominik Nitsche folded his big blind.
Senh Ung: ![]()
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Bryan Paris: ![]()
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The board ran out an uneventful ![]()
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and Paris made his exit. Senh Ung in the meantime, was the first player out today but now has over a million in chips.
Charlie Carrel argued his way out of a penalty for folding out of turn, claiming he thought the player before him had acted.
He was given a warning, then suddenly got it in with sixes versus Fernando Brito's ![]()
and Brito's 225,000-chip stack in the very next hand.
The board ran out ![]()
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making Brito a bigger pair on the river and handing him a timely double up.
"I should have taken the penalty," Carrel said with a smile.
Level: 15
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
On the button, Kevin MacPhee shoved all in for about 350,000. In the big blind, Mark Radoja was down to 115,000 and called it of while taking another sip of his Guinness.
Kevin MacPhee: ![]()
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Mark Radoja: ![]()
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The flop came ![]()
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, favoriting Radoja. The
on the turn brought MacPhee some chop outs, but the
on the river didn't bring in the flush. MacPhee down to 230,000 while Radoja stacked up to
In the hijack, Jason Wheeler raised to 34,000. Sam Greenwood in the big blind was the only caller.
Greenwood checked on ![]()
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and Wheeler bet 40,000. Greenwood thought about it for a bit, and moved in for 186,000. Wheeler knocked down his own stack in the haste putting in the calling chips.
Jason Wheeler: ![]()
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Sam Greenwood: ![]()
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The
on the turn and
on the river both didn't do Greenwood any good, and the Canadian high roller made his exit. Greenwood wasn't the only one departing, he was preceded by Rainer Kempe.
Rainer Kempe limped the small blind and Jason Wheeler checked his option in the big.
Kempe led for 16,000 on the ![]()
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flop and Wheeler raised to 36,000. Kempe called and checked the
turn. Wheeler fired again, leading for 65,000, but Kempe would not go away.
Finally, when the
completed the board and Kempe checked, Wheeler shoved. Kempe made a somewhat reluctant 220,000-chip call and his ![]()
full house was no good. Wheeler had the ![]()
, having flopped trips and rivered quads.