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In Level 18 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and an ante of 750, "BigDickRick" jammed for 54,500 in the hijack and Michael "miw210x" re-jammed for 121,000 in the small blind. Alex "JinYang" Butcher folded his big blind and the other two players' cards were shown.

"BigDickRick":
Michael "miw210x" Wang":

Nothing came for "BigDickRick" on the ten-high runout and they were eliminated from the tournament. Meanwhile, Wang finds himself nearing 200,000 as a handful of recent eliminations has brought the number of players remaining in the field down to 50.

Play is more than halfway through Level 17 with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and an ante of 625. Sixty players now remain, with "Lanfeust" atop the leader board and Ryan "Whosyourdoddy" Dodd following behind as the only two players above 400,000.

In Level 16 with blinds of 2,000/4,000 and an ante of 500, "audidriver" raised to 8,000 in middle position and was called by "Gohednpopoff" in the hijack. "Launfeust" was on the button and three-bet jammed for 49,650. Only "Gohednpopoff" called.

"Lanfeust":
"Gohednpopoff":

The flop came , giving both players a piece of the flop and leaving "Lanfeust" in need of fading the two remaining kings in the deck to stay alive. Such a need proved to be no problem as the turn and river completed the runout and the pot was shipped their way for the dub.

In Level 15 with blinds of 1,800/3,600 and an ante of 450, "xxx6395200xxx" was in middle position and opened to 7,200. "maniacalmonk" was next to act in the hijack and three-bet to 20,800. Three folds then put action onto "IReadYrSoul" in the big blind, who cold four-bet to 48,600.

"xxx6395200xxx" came over the top, five-bet jamming for 187,000 and "maniacalmonk" called all in for just shy of 156,000. "IReadYrSoul" folded.

"maniacalmonk":
"xxx6395200xxx":

"xxx6395200xxx" was able to fade the three outer as the board ran out and the pot of over 350,000 was shipped their way, bringing their stack to nearly 400,000 as "maniacalmonk" was eliminated from the tournament. With the pot, "xxx6395200xxx" is now the chip leader in the tournament with 84 players remaining out of 210 entries and three minutes left in the registration period.

Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken is a name you should know as he's become on of the most accomplished players on the partypoker US Network.

A couple of months ago, Vanauken accomplished the incredible feat of capturing back-to-back titles not once, but twice.

In the July 6-12 series, he topped a 134-entry field to win Event #4: $15,000 GTD NLH for nearly $7,500, and then the next night bested 144 runners to win Event #5: $,7500 GTD Green Chip Bounty for $3,145. Then, at the end of July, he won the $320 buy-in Event #3: $15,000 GTD PKO Bounty for $6,393 and a day later emerged victorious in the $215 buy-in Event #4: $12,000 GTD PKO Bounty Boost for $5.691.

PokerNews recently had the chance to chat with Vanauken about his recent successes.

Money Never Sleeps

For the 43-year-old Vanauken, who is married with three kids ages 7, 10, and 19, he’s never really had a nine-to-five job. Instead, he fancies himself a real estate broker engaging in flips and investments while playing poker on the side of course.

“I first learned playing $4/$8 limit at Foxwoods in early 2000 and now play now $20/$40 and $30/$60 when I can find a game, or settle on $1/$2 or $2/$5 NLH," he said. "I have played the WSOP Main Event two times with no luck busting on Day 2 both times.”

Additionally, Vanauken grinds a decent amount on the virtual tables under the screen name “alwaysliquid,” which stems from the movie Wall Street when Gordon Gekko tells Bud Fox about how money never sleeps and you need to always be liquid.

“Since New Jersey went legal I play on Borgata and WSOP. I used to play PokerStars but had an issue with them over a year ago and have since boycotted them. I do very well on Borgata. I even shipped the Mega Thursday [not long ago] on my phone from an Applebee’s parking lot as I had no WiFi at home due to power outage.”

As for his recent successes on partypoker US, Vanauken was pleased but wanted to remain humble.

“I am humbled to be able to compete with all of the great players in New Jersey,” he said. “I’m proud that all of my studying and grinding has been producing favorable results in the past few years, taking me from an average breakeven player to a profitable one. At the same time, I try to maintain being humble with this great game and what it has provided for me and my family.”

Proudest Poker Accomplishments

For Vanauken, the scores rank up there among his proudest poker accomplishments, which includes beating a poker legend.

“In 2013, I beat Joe McKeehen for the Borgata Limit Championship,” Vanauken said. “I think that was the last limit event held at Borgata.”

Other highlights on his poker résumé include finishing sixth in the 2018 WSOP Circuit at Canada’s Playground Poker Club and finishing runner-up in a pair of WSOP Circuit online events back in March.

“So close to a ring but the two cashes of $35k and $20k within a few days definitely eased the quarantine pain,” Vanauken said.

With the latest partypoker US Network Online Series happening now, only time will tell if Vanauken can keep his streak of winning back-to-back events alive.

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Players are returning from a five-minute break and Level 14 has begun with blinds of 1,600/3,200 and an ante of 400. This is the penultimate 10-minute level of the late registration period, meaning registration will close and the prize pool will become official at 10:21 p.m. ET.

As of now, 196 entries have been recorded with 88 players in contention and Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier atop the counts.

In Level 13 with blinds of 1,400/2,800 and an ante of 350, "ILoveDeuce7" open-limped in middle position and "BigDickRick" pumped it up to 12,600. "Atom3v388" called on the button, as did "ILoveDeuce7" and the three saw the flop come . Action checked to "Atom3v388," who bet 10,000. "ILoveDeuce7" folded and "BigDickRick" called.

Action was then heads up to the turn and "BigDickRick" checked once more. "Atom3v388 bet another 15,000 and "BigDickRick" called, bringing the river . "BigDickRick" checked again and "Atom3v388" checked behind to take the hand to showdown.

"BigDickRick" showed for a full house on the river. Their opponent mucked and the pot was shipped their way.