Play has finished on Day 1b with an unofficial 45 players making it through the nearly 13 full levels of play. A list of chip counts from those who finished will be provided shortly.
Play has finished on Day 1b with an unofficial 45 players making it through the nearly 13 full levels of play. A list of chip counts from those who finished will be provided shortly.
With 10 minutes remaining in Level 13, the floor has announced for each table to play two more hands before all players still left in contention will bag and tag their chips for Sunday's Day 2.
Logan Enman opened to 13,000 in early position and Travis Bettcher re-jammed for 28,000 in the cutoff. Action eventually made its way back to Enman, who wished Bettcher good luck as he threw in chips to call.
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Bettcher's aces locked up the double for him by the turn of a runout ![]()
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, ultimately making aces full when all was said and done.
Moments later, Terence Reid was seen making his way from an adjacent table in the room after being eliminated from the tournament. With his and all other recent eliminations, 46 players now remain. Play will continue for another 10 minutes before all remaining players bag and tag unless six more eliminations occur prior to that point being reached.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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305,000
110,000
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110,000 |
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64,000 | |
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Busted |
Zachary Robinson open-jammed for his last 16,500 under the gun and action folded around to the big blind, who called.
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Robinson's overpair needed to sweat a gutshot straight draw after the flop ![]()
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, and he did just that as ![]()
completed the runout to keep him alive.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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38,000
21,500
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21,500 |
Action folded to the small blind and he completed. Daniel Klein then raised his option, making it 10,000 total, and the small blind called.
The flop was ![]()
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and the small blind check-called a continuation-bet of 9,000 from Klein. Both players then checked through the turn
and river
to take the hand to showdown.
"I have an ace," said Klein after checking. He tabled ![]()
and his opponent showed
while sending his cards to the muck. With the pot, Klein has now chipped up to nearly 250K with 51 players remaining and 30 minutes left in Level 13.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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239,000
48,000
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48,000 |
Chris Belcher opened in middle position and Brad Lammers re-jammed in the big blind for 48,500. Belcher thought for a few moments and then called.
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Lammers was done in by the turn of a runout that came ![]()
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, giving Belcher a flopped set of queens. Belcher slammed his fist down onto the pot in celebration of the won pot, while Lammers congratulated him on a nice hand and wished the table the best of luck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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133,000
57,500
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57,500 |
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Busted |
Vicki McKee has shot to the top of the leader board over the last hour of play, now finding herself with around 325,000. An updated look at counts has been provided below with what looks to be 59 players remaining.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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325,000
260,000
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260,000 |
|
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288,000
11,000
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11,000 |
|
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265,000
197,000
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197,000 |
|
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195,000
105,000
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105,000 |
|
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191,000
89,000
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89,000 |
|
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103,000
7,000
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7,000 |
|
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97,000
97,000
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97,000 |
|
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80,500
40,700
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40,700 |
|
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71,000
37,000
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37,000 |
|
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61,500
6,700
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6,700 |
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54,500
14,000
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14,000 |
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41,000
13,800
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13,800 |
|
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40,000
16,100
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16,100 |
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37,000
29,000
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29,000 |
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31,000
37,000
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37,000 |
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16,500
6,500
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6,500 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
An early-position player opened to 6,500 and Chris Belcher called in middle position.
Action went heads up to a flop of ![]()
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and both payers checked. The original raiser bet 5,000 on the turn
and Belcher called.
The river came
and the early-position player checked. Belcher announced a bet of 5,000 and his opponent deliberated for a few moments before flicking in a chip to match.
"Ace-king," said Belcher, tabling ![]()
to match. His opponent could not beat the flopped top two pair, and the pot was sent Belcher's way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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75,500
41,900
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41,900 |
Action folded around to the player on the button, who opened to 7,500. Clint Applegarth called in the small blind and the big blind came along as well, with all three players checking the flop ![]()
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The turn came
and Applegarth checked again. The big blind bet 7,500 and the player on the button folded. Applegarth called.
The river fell
and Applegarth checked for a third time. The big blind fired out 13,000 and Applegarth wasted no time calling.
Upon being called, the big blind mentioned something along the lines of his hand being no good, and that he was bluffing. Applegarth showed ![]()
for a set of jacks and his opponent mucked, acknowledging a nice hand as the pot was sent his way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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153,000 |