Welcome to Day 3 of 2019 HPT Ameristar East Chicago Main Event
Nine players remain and one will win $183,899 and a $3,500 Heartland Poker Tour Championship package. It's time for the final day and the final table of HPT Ameristar East Chicago.
From 570 entries, just these nine remain, and a look at the chip counts tells it all when it comes to the landscape of the final table. It's Chris Moon in the driver's seat and Moon by a country mile. Nobody is even all that close to his monstrous stack of 200-plus big blinds.
HPT Ameristar East Chicago Final Table
| Seat | Player | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Salazar | 760,000 |
| 2 | Craig Casino | 2,750,000 |
| 3 | Bret Martin | 545,000 |
| 4 | Dennis Ng | 1,000,000 |
| 5 | Paul Elfelt | 1,265,000 |
| 6 | Artem Zverkhovskyy | 2,160,000 |
| 7 | Mike O'Neill | 970,000 |
| 8 | Chris Moon | 6,195,000 |
| 9 | Bryant Miller | 1,470,000 |
Plenty of accomplished competition does remain, though. Mike O'Neill and Craig Casino, for example, are no strangers to the HPT spotlight, each having at least one HPT title in the bag. And Eric Salazar, while he does have one of the shortest stacks, has been one of the most successful players grinding the WSOP Circuit this season.
The streamed and televised final table is set for a noon kickoff, although the stream won't come online for a little while after that, closer to 12:30 local time. There's still 52 minutes left in Level 24 (15,000/30,000/30,000). Play will continue with one-hour levels until heads-up time, at which point they are cut to half an hour.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who grabs the trophy, or catch the stream at the HPT Twitch channel.
. Dennis Ng woke up with 
and called on the button. The blinds mucked and the dealer ran out a board of 
, leaving Martin in need of an ace or queen. The river was a 
though and Martin was first out at the final table.
and Chris Moon in the small blind check-raised with 
. Ng moved all in for 1.5 million and Moon quickly called with his set. The turn was a 
leaving Ng drawing dead to the meaningless 
river.
and Chris Moon picked up 
behind him. He tanked a bit then shoved and chased everyone else out. Elfelt was unable to find a pair and Moon reduced it to six-handed.
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turn, Salazar checked and O'Neill bet 250,000. Salazar jammed for 1.3 million and O'Neill thought about 30 seconds and flicked in a call. 
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. Zverkhovskyy had 
flop paired him. The 
and Artem Zverkhovskyy check-called 250,000. He checked again on the 
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