Level: 14
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Level: 14
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Mikita Badziakouski opened to 13,000 from early position and the action folded around to Ben Heath in the big blind. Heath moved all-in, which was quickly called by Badziakouski. The two stacks were fairly even, but it was Badziakouski at risk.
Mikita Badziakouski:
Ben Heath:
Heath had Badziakouski dominated to begin the hand, with the runout changing nothing. Heath took down the pot as Badziakouski hit the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ben Heath |
228,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
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Mikita Badziakouski | Busted | |
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Daniel Dvoress moved all-in from early position and was at risk after finding a call from Timothy Adams in the big blind.
Daniel Dvoress:
Timothy Adams:
Dvoress was ahead with his pocket pair and the runout posed no danger to his double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Timothy Adams |
232,000
-68,000
|
-68,000 |
|
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Daniel Dvoress |
160,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
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Conor Beresford opened to 16,000 from the cutoff and Jonathan Jaffe flat-called on the button before Sean Winter also called in the small blind. Fedor Holz in the big blind then three-bet jammed a stack of around 250,000.
Beresford folded and Jaffe used a time bank before also folding. Winter followed suit to earn Holz the pot.
Around the same time, Cary Katz was eliminated from the tournament.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Conor Beresford |
500,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Sean Winter |
350,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
Fedor Holz | 320,000 | |
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Jonathan Jaffe |
130,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
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Cary Katz | Busted |
Ben Heath bought in at the end of late registration and has been building his chip stack right from the start.
His latest victim was Michael Addamo, who could not beat Heath's for a pair of jacks on a king-high runout to hit the rail in Level 14.
Pascal Lefrancois also busted shortly after to break the table and narrow the field to the final 15.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ben Heath |
380,000
152,000
|
152,000 |
|
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Michael Addamo | Busted | |
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Pascal Lefrancois | Busted | |
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Jonathan Jaffe had just gotten a three-bet jam through when he open-jammed a stack of around 150,000 from the cutoff. Fedor Holz re-shoved in the small blind to get things heads-up.
Jonathan Jaffe:
Fedor Holz:
Jaffe had his opponent pipped to be in great shape to double before the runout of gave Holz a pair of eights on the turn to eliminate Jaffe.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fedor Holz |
470,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
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Jonathan Jaffe | Busted | |
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Level: 15
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Sean Winter and Fedor Holz were battling heads up on the flop, with Holz betting 30,000 on the button before calling a raise from Winter to 80,000.
Winter used a time bank card after the turn before sliding out a bet of 70,000. Holz called to see the river, where both players used time banks before reaching a decision.
Winter announced a bet of 149,000 after using an extra 30 seconds, while Holz made use of three time banks before making the call. Winter revealed for trip eights, enough to take over the chip lead with Holz nodding as he mucked his hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sean Winter |
715,000
365,000
|
365,000 |
Fedor Holz |
145,000
-325,000
|
-325,000 |
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Aleksejs Ponakovs opened to 20,000 from the hijack and Juan Pardo flat-called on the button, while Ben Heath also came along from the big blind.
Heath checked on the flop of and Ponakovs continued for 25,000. Pardo called and Heath folded. Ponakovs sized up to 65,000 on the turn and Pardo called.
The river completed the board and Ponakovs used a time bank before betting 109,000 with just one 1,000 chip behind. Pardo gave it some thought and called.
Ponakovs tabled for a stone bluff with jack-high and Pardo showed to win the pot with second pair.
The next hand, Ponakovs moved all in for just a tenth of a big blind and Conor Beresford raised to 20,000 from the button. Sean Winter then three-bet to around 500,000, which brought a fold from Beresford.
Aleksejs Ponakovs:
Sean Winter:
The board ran out and Ponakovs stayed ahead with queen-high to 14x his stack after picking up the ante.
"I protected you," laughed Winter about his isolation raise.
But the Latvian couldn't spin it up any further and was eliminated shortly after.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Juan Pardo |
900,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Sean Winter |
730,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Conor Beresford |
400,000
-100,000
|
-100,000 |
Aleksejs Ponakovs | Busted | |
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