Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
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.
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.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 30,000
Right away, Eric Salazar got it in with from the small blind for 730,000. Big blind Craig Casino woke up with and called, but the board ran out clean for Salazar to double.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Craig Casino | 1,900,000 | -850,000 |
Eric Salazar | 1,500,000 | 740,000 |
In the cutoff, Bret Martin shoved for 440,000 with . 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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Dennis Ng | 1,500,000 | 500,000 |
Bret Martin | Busted |
Craig Casino opened for 80,000 with in middle position, Paul Elfelt three-bet to 265,000 with and Mike O'Neill woke up with and jammed in the small blind for 955,000. Casino folded but Elfelt called and the board ran out .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike O'Neill | 2,100,000 | 1,130,000 |
Paul Elfelt | 520,000 | -745,000 |
Four players saw a flop of , with Dennis Ng raising to 75,000. Ng bet 160,000 with 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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chris Moon | 7,800,000 | 1,605,000 |
Dennis Ng | Busted |
Three players saw a flop and Artem Zverkhovskyy, who raised preflop to 75,000, continued for 90,000 with . Big blind Craig Casino check-raised to 210,000 and Zverkhovskyy peeled, bringing a . Casino barreled again for 350,000 and Zverkhovskyy thought briefly and mucked.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Craig Casino | 2,200,000 | 300,000 |
Artem Zverkhovskyy | 1,800,000 | -360,000 |