Level: 13
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
HPT Season XV Championship
$2,500 Championship Event
Day: 2
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Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Players are off on their first fifteen-minute break of the day. During the break, the 100 denomination chips will be raced off.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Maurice Hawkins fired 7,500 on a three-way turn, the board reading a full rainbow 
, and both Aaron Johnson in the hijack and Matt Higgins in the cutoff called.
The 
river paired the board, and Hawkins checked. Johnson put out 16,500, Higgins called, and Hawkins let it go.
Johnson tabled 
for two pair, and Higgins mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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125,000
57,000
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57,000 |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Heads up and all in preflop, Herstein was at risk and way ahead.
Gary Herstein: 
Bobby Noel: 
gave Noel's live spade plenty of hope, but help instead came in the form of the 
turn, and the 
river brought no recovery for Herstein.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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94,000 | |
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Busted |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Brent Barfield checked a 
flop from the big blind, and James Burns bet 7,000 into a pot of 12,000 from the cutoff. Barfield called.
Both players checked the 
turn, and the 
fell on the river. Barfield checked and Burns bet 15,000. Barfield quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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380,000
90,000
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90,000 |
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205,000
55,000
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55,000 |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Gregory Sharp had 30,000 chip committed from the hijack on a 
flop, and was contemplating a shove for 87,100 from Timothy Vance in the big blind.
"I'm probably calling," Sharp told Vance after a minute in the tank, and true to his work, he called a short time later.
Timothy Vance: 
Gregory Sharp: 
Vance's queens held on the 
turn and 
river, sending out of his seat in celebration, while Sharp sent two-thirds of his stack over to Vance.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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205,000
126,000
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126,000 |
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42,000
32,000
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32,000 |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Nate Stumpf opened for 4,500 from under the gun, called only by Paul Elfelt in the big blind.
The two headed to a paired flop in the form of 
, and Elfelt check-called a c-bet of 4,500.
On the turn, Elfelt led for 6,000, and Stumpf bumped it up to 19,000. Elfelt called.
The river brought the 
, and Elfelt shoved, covering Stumpf. Stumpf snapped, having rivered the straight flush to best Elfelt's rivered full house.
Nate Stumpf: 
Paul Elfelt: 
Elfelt graciously relinquished his chips and began telling the story of another time he lost to a straight flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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238,000 | |
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38,000 |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Two short stacks were all in before the flop, with Quintis Simpson the shortest of the three stacks, while Luke O'Brien barely had him covered. Matt Higgins joined the fray and had both of his opponents at risk.
Quintis Simpson: 
Luke O'Brien:
Matt Higgins: 
"Deuce!" Higgins said.
The 
flop gave his deuces a major sweat, and the turn gave Simpson a flush, while O'Brien held the nut flush draw and Higgins was still live with a full house draw. The river filled the flush for O'Brien, and Simpson was eliminated while O'Brien mroe than doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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230,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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80,000
40,000
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40,000 |
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Busted |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Scotter Clark raised to 4,500 from early position, and Stephen Song three-bet to 12,500 from the hijack. Clark called.
Clark check-called a bet of 5,000 on the flop, then checked again on the turn. Song bet 12,000 and Clark folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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200,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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47,400
22,600
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22,600 |
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Nick Pupillo just busted the HPT Season XV $2,500 Championship Event, meaning if Eric Salazar or Nick Davidson can win this event, they'll be able to snatch the HPT Player of the Year title from his grasp.
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