partypoker US Network Online Series (Nov. 29 - Dec.6)

Hand #1: In Level 21 with blinds of 7,000/14,000 and an ante of 1,750, all of the chips went into the middle preflop between "njpokeraa" in the big blind and the at-risk "Gohednpopoff", who was in the hijack at a five-handed table.

"Gohednpopoff":
"njpokeraa":

"Gohednpopoff" doubled their stack of 216,000 as the board ran out safely, coming .

Hand #2: Two hands later, "Cara2Cacra" got their last 157,000 all in in the big blind against "Borgatcha", who was in the hijack.

"Cara2Cacra":
"Borgatcha":

The flop left "Cara2Cacra" drawing to nothing more than running wheel outs, and the turn dashed those hopes. The river completed the runout to make the hand official and "Cara2Cacra" became the official bubble finisher of the tournament.

All 10 who remain are now in the money and have earned $299.25 plus all applicable bounties.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gohednpopoff	449,022 259,704	259,704
njpokeraa	244,364 -334,886	-334,886
Cara2Cacra	Busted

In Level 18 with blinds of 4,000/8,000 and an ante of 1,000, Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier shoved for 128,000 in the cutoff and "Gohednpopoff" called in the big blind.

Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier:
"Gohednpopoff":

Sherrier found himself on the wrong side of the coin flip after a runout of left his hand second best to result him taking 13th place in the tournament. With 12 players remaining, hand-for-hand play is in effect across the two remaining tables until two eliminations occur to reach the money when 10 are left.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gohednpopoff	1,137,988 517,816	517,816
Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier	Busted

Level 16 has begun with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and an ante of 750, and with it marks the official closure of the registration period. A final number of 70 entries were logged to generate a total prize pool of $21,000 set to be paid to the top 10 players.

A first-level payout is $299.25 with payouts increasing up to the top two, who earn $2,518 and $2,521, respectively plus all applicable bounties.

Complete payout information can be found in the Payouts Tab.

In Level 11 with blinds of 1,400/2,800 and an ante of 350, there was 30,100 in the pot on a board of with heads-up action between "onoreally" in the big blind and Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo, who was in the hijack. "onoreally" overbet-shoved for Lupo's effective stack size of roughly double the pot and Lupo immediately called.

"onoreally":
Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo:

"onoreally" had flopped trips and backed into a flush, but it was still not enough as Lupo had flopped jacks full of aces and all he had to do to earn the easy double was click the call button on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel "centrfieldr23" Lupo	149,770 149,770	149,770
onoreally	35,830 -47,685	-47,685

In Level 8 with blinds of 800/1,600 and an ante of 200, a three-way all-in scenario between Michael "miw210x" Wang in the big blind, the under-the-gun "Badbeat1512", and "kingtaut" in the hijack was in the process of seeing the board run out .

"Badbeat1512" was the shortest of the three stacks, with Wang covering both "kingtaut" by only a small margin.

"Badbeat1512":
"kingtaut":
Michael "miw210x" Wang:

When all was said and done, "kingtaut" scooped both pots for the knockout and more than a full double with their two pair, aces up. Wang was left with under 7,000 but found himself up to 27,000 just moments later.

Also moments later, "kingtaut" was down to 161,000 after appearing to double Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd, who is now over 200,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd	203,706 122,181	122,181
kingtaut	161,106 24,477	24,477
Michael "miw210x" Wang	27,484 -56,021	-56,021
Badbeat1512	Busted

In Level 4 with blinds of 300/600 and an ante of 75, there was 34,000 in the middle on a board of after flop action finished between Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty in the small blind and "angies13" in the hijack. The remainder of the chips proceeded to quickly be committed on both sides on the turn .

"angies13":
Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty:

Hagerty flopped a set and got it in good against the overpair of "angies13", who was unable to hit the two outer on the river and was eliminated as a result. Hagerty earned the knockout in addition to the pot, which was his second since returning from the break to earn nearly half of his buyin back before the end of Level 4.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan "simlSgg" Hagerty	241,549 166,549	166,549
angies13	Busted

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