The remaining players are now on their scheduled 1-hour dinner break and will return at approximately 7:35 pm to closed registration. The black 100-denomination chips will also be colored up during this time.
136 players have returned from their dinner break and are back to slinging chips around.
Registration has also officially ended for this event with 330 entries from this flight alone. Combined with the other two starting flights the total is a staggering 628 entries generating a whopping prize pool of $653,120- absolutely decimating the original $300,000 guarantee.
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PokerNews missed the hand, but the table relayed the action after the fact:
After a brief betting war, Conrado Fransisco, Greg Goater, and Jermaine "Lion" Gerlin got all the money in preflop, with Francisco covering.
Greg Goater:
Jermaine Gerlin:
Conrad0 Francisco:
The flop came out to give Gerlin a big lead with his set of nines, but the poker gods seemed to have had other plans...
The board ran out to give both Gerlin and Francisco a nine-high straight on the board to chop the side pot while short-stacked Goater scooped the main pot with his superior ten-high straight.
Unfortunately, Goater was still considerably short-stacked and ended up busting a few hands later.
The 628 total runners for this event have generated a prize pool of $653,120 and will be paying out 79 places with a grand prize of $119,773 and a minimum cash of $1,921.
On a three-way flop of , Ed Mroczkowski and Carson Nennsteil checked to Bradley Beetz who bet 8,000.
Mroczkowski folded but Nennsteil made the call to see the appear on the turn, to which both players decided to check.
The river fell the and Nennsteil bet 4,000 into the pot but was then raised to 20,000 by Beetz. Nennsteil paused to think about it for some time and eventually flicked in a call chip but was then shown for a rivered seven. This was good enough to beat Nennsteil as he showed the as he tossed his cards into the muck.