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Event #8: $30K GTD Progressive Knockout Bounty
Day: 1
Event Info

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Final Results
Winner
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
Winning Hand
64
Prize
$5,212
Event Info
Buy-in
$320
Entries
139

Updated Counts

Bubble play continues in Level 26 with blinds of 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 3,000. Updated chip counts have been provided below.

Player Chips Progress
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
1,275,553 -26,000
TraderSteve us
TraderSteve
1,260,311 200,164
Core4 us
Core4
1,051,132 374,450
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman us
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
883,296 12,100
lenny54 us
lenny54
626,127 -437,439
bighatnocattle us
bighatnocattle
575,768 277,384
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
444,204 -111,500
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis us
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis
421,485 189,200
Stevehung us
Stevehung
412,124 -98,750

"mooseman1710" Wins Big Coin Flip; Hand-For-Hand Begins

"ELITEMALESSO"
"ELITEMALESSO"

In Level 25 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and an ante of 2,500, "ELITEMALESSO" opened to 70,000 in the cutoff and "mooseman1710" three-bet shoved in the small blind for 529,000 effective. "ELITEMALESSO" called.

"ELITEMALESSO": {a-Hearts}{k-Spades}
"mooseman1710": {q-Clubs}{q-Hearts}

The two were in a coin flip for a pot of 1.1 million and "ELITEMALESSO" saw the runout come {7-Hearts}{8-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{6-Spades} to result in their tournament run coming to an end in 10th place as "IReadYrSoul" was eliminated a few minutes prior.

Nine players

Player Chips Progress
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
1,301,553 578,743
IReadYrSoul us
IReadYrSoul
Busted
ELITEMALESSO us
ELITEMALESSO
Busted

"phillychzsteak1" Runs Into Aces; Sherrier's Night Comes To An End

"phillychzsteak1"
"phillychzsteak1"

In Level 24 with blinds of 8,000/16,000 and an ante of 2,000, "mooseman1710" raised to 33,000 under the gun and "phllychzsteak1" three-bet shoved for 259,000 in the hijack. Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman was in the small blind and came over the top, cold-four-bet shoving for 548,000. All remaining players folded.

"phillychzsteak1": {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}

"phillychzsteak1" was in trouble but found four immediate outs on the flop {5-Hearts}{q-Spades}{k-Diamonds}. Unfortunately for them, they got no closer as the turn {3-Diamonds} and river {7-Diamonds} completed the runout to result in them taking 13th place.

Moments later, got all in preflpo in the big blind against "TraderSteve" in the small blind.

Brian "TopCreature" Sherrier: {a-}{9-}
"TraderSteve": {a-}{k-}

Sherrier did not catch a nine and was eliminated in 12th place shortly thereafter.

Brian Sherrier
Brian Sherrier
Player Chips Progress
lenny54 us
lenny54
1,063,566 4,445
TraderSteve us
TraderSteve
1,060,147 679,337
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman us
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
871,196 681,291
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
722,810 53,055
Core4 us
Core4
676,682 -41,437
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
555,704 -116,250
Stevehung us
Stevehung
510,874 -2,090
ELITEMALESSO us
ELITEMALESSO
510,688 105,110
IReadYrSoul us
IReadYrSoul
399,664 -71,250
bighatnocattle us
bighatnocattle
298,384 -28,000
phillychzsteak1 us
phillychzsteak1
Busted
Brian “TopCreature” Sherrier us
Brian “TopCreature” Sherrier
Busted

"bighatnocattle" Doubles

In Level 24 with blinds of 8,000/16,000 and an ante of 2,000, "lenny54" opened to 35,000 and "bighatnocattle" thought for a bit before three-bet jamming for 148,000 in the small blind. "lenny54" called once action was back upon them.

"bighatnocattle": {a-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}
"lenny54": {q-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}

"bighatnocattle" cut their opponent's outs in half on the flop {9-Spades}{8-Clubs}{3-Hearts} but found four more cards to sweat as the turn {j-Spades} gave "lenny54" a backdoor straight draw. However, the river came a clean {7-Spades} and they earned the double. .

Meanwhile, "A. Jackson1767" and Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski were recently eliminated and just 13 players remain.

Player Chips Progress
lenny54 us
lenny54
1,059,121 -183,802
bighatnocattle us
bighatnocattle
326,384 99,942
A. Jackson1767 us
A. Jackson1767
Busted
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
Busted

Haberman Holds Versus Lillis

“IIIIIIIIIIIII”
“IIIIIIIIIIIII”

In Level 23 with blinds of 7,000/14,000 and an ante of 1,750, Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman jammed for 158,000 in the cutoff and James ‘Bagels’ Lillis called in the big blind after a few moments of thought.

Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman: {a-Clubs}{2-Clubs}
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis: {k-Diamonds}{j-Spades}

Haberman was out in front and was the only one to improve as the runout came {8-Diamonds}{10-Diamonds}{2-Spades}{3-Spades}{a-Spades} to give him aces up as he held to double at Lillis' expense.

Player Chips Progress
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis us
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis
232,285 -133,905
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman us
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
189,905

Fifteen Remain on Break (full)

Fifteen players remain on break in Level 23 with blinds of 7,000/14,000 and an ante of 1,750. "lenny54" has become the first player to crack seven figures and has the other 14 remaining players looking up at them in the counts.

Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken became the 16th-place finisher in the tournament shortly before break.

Player Chips Progress
lenny54 us
lenny54
1,242,923 599,229
Core4 us
Core4
718,119 133,997
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
Daniel “leinad” Buzgon
671,954 128,320
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
669,755 -161,795
Stevehung us
Stevehung
512,964 221,180
IReadYrSoul us
IReadYrSoul
470,914 82,449
ELITEMALESSO us
ELITEMALESSO
405,578 222,564
phillychzsteak1 us
phillychzsteak1
386,108 137,829
TraderSteve us
TraderSteve
380,810 124,575
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis us
James ‘Bagels’ Lillis
366,190 130,920
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
Stanton "Stonniepokes" Tentnowski
254,028 71,000
A. Jackson1767 us
A. Jackson1767
246,033 42,653
bighatnocattle us
bighatnocattle
226,442 24,831
Brian “TopCreature” Sherrier us
Brian “TopCreature” Sherrier
208,277 24,650
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman us
Michael “IIIIIIIIIIIII” Haberman
189,905 -335,753

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Daniel Buzgon
Daniel Buzgon

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"sri50k" Eliminated On the Bubble

"sri50k"
"sri50k"

In Level 22 with blinds of 6,000/12,000 and an ante of 1,500, "sri50k" raised to 24,000 in middle position and received a call from "mooseman1710," defending their big blind. The flop dropped {8-Spades}{7-Spades}{6-Spades} and "mooseman1710" checked. "sri50k" overbet-shoved for 143,000 and "mooseman1710" thought for a handful of moments before deciding to call.

"sri50k": {k-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
"mooseman1710": {a-Clubs}{8-Clubs}

"sri50k" had two overcards and a flush draw but saw the turn {9-Clubs} and river {2-Clubs} brick out to send them to the rail in 21st place as the official bubble finisher of the tournament. The 20 remaining players are now all in the money and will earn $242 plus bounties.

Player Chips Progress
mooseman1710 us
mooseman1710
831,550 226,450
sri50k us
sri50k
Busted