The remaining 72 players are on their first, 20-minute break of the day.
Hand-for-hand play will resume after the break on the money bubble
While you wait, here is a little fun with Kristen Bicknell.
The remaining 72 players are on their first, 20-minute break of the day.
Hand-for-hand play will resume after the break on the money bubble
While you wait, here is a little fun with Kristen Bicknell.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
986,000
240,500
|
240,500 |
|
|
648,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
420,000
201,000
|
201,000 |
|
|
416,000
66,000
|
66,000 |
|
|
410,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
394,000
94,000
|
94,000 |
|
|
371,500
14,500
|
14,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
365,000
130,500
|
130,500 |
|
|
340,000
85,500
|
85,500 |
|
|
334,000
207,000
|
207,000 |
|
|
330,000
106,500
|
106,500 |
|
|
300,000
116,000
|
116,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
281,500
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
|
279,500
113,500
|
113,500 |
|
|
273,000
83,500
|
83,500 |
|
|
270,000
93,000
|
93,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
260,000
63,500
|
63,500 |
|
|
256,500
12,500
|
12,500 |
|
|
250,500
60,500
|
60,500 |
|
|
220,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
215,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
|
188,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
|
184,000
47,500
|
47,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
160,000
29,000
|
29,000 |
|
|
160,000
22,500
|
22,500 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Thomas Lefort was left with less than one big blind and was forced to put his remaining 3,500 in the middle in the big blind next hand.
Action folded around to Denis Timofeev who raised to 8,000 from the cutoff. Thomas Lefort was left with less than one big blind and was forced to put his remaining 3,500 in the middle in the big blind.
To Lefort showed ![]()
, and to his disappointment he was dominated by Timofeev who tabled ![]()
.
The board ran out ![]()
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and Lefort was eliminated in 72nd place on the stone bubble.
All remaining 71 players are on now in the money, guaranteed a payout of $7,720.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
666,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Fabrice de Benedictis got his last 50,000 in the middle the first hand after the bubble burst. He had the goods with ![]()
and was fading the ![]()
of Lucas Blanco. A ![]()
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board later, de Benedictis got a double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
306,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
108,000
52,500
|
52,500 |
Aaron Been open-jammed for 59,500 from middle position and Byron Kaverman called from the button. Both blinds folded and Been discovered the bad news.
Been: ![]()
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Kaverman: ![]()
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Been had a kicker problem and it did not get resolved as the board ran out a clean ![]()
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
120,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
|
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|
|
Busted | |
Ari Engel, who was among the short stacks on the bubble, raised to 8,000 under the gun and left himself just 1,500 behind. Canada's Taran Parmar then three-bet to 16,000, another player called, and Engel put in his remaining stack.
When the flop came down ![]()
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, Parmar bet 19,000 and the other player folded. Parmar and Engel then turned up their hands.
Parmar: ![]()
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Engel: ![]()
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Both players had flopped a pair, but Parar's was best. Engel was looking for another ten or running diamonds to stay alive, but neither came as the
blanked on the turn followed by the
on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
235,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
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|
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Caufman Talley had a shorter-stacked player who had about 25,000 at risk preflop. They were flipping with Talley holding the pair (![]()
) and his opponent the ![]()
. An ace-high flop left Talley in bad shape but a seven fell on the turn to give him the win.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
267,000
16,500
|
16,500 |
Daniel Dvoress was shoving his stack of 27,000 right after the bubble burst, but he must have doubled up a shorter stack because he looked to be around 10,000 when he got it all in for his last against Erik Cajelais. Dvoress had ![]()
but was dominated by ![]()
, and no jack appeared to save the high roller.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
108,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
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Marcelo Filartiga Villalba got it in with the best hand holding ![]()
to Kenneth Smaron's ![]()
. Unfortunately for Villalba, the board ran out ![]()
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and Villalbaexited the tournament room.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
400,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
Busted |