We didn't catch the action but on the fifth hand of hand-for-hand play, the bubble has been pooped. Budwey Salhab trapped an opponent with pocket kings and got them to commit the rest of their chips. Salhab's kings held versus an ace-high hand and with that the rest of the field is in the money.
2018 Western New York Poker Challenge
The field is now one off the money sitting at 37 players remaining. The next player eliminated will put the rest of the field in the money.
There looked to be about 200,000 already piled up in the middle when Chris Meyers checked a ![]()
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flop. His heads-up opponent, Peter Mancini, bet 100,000 only to see Meyers check-shove for 183,500.
"No shame in folding," said Meyers as Mancini sat in the tank. Meyers would eventually see his opponent fold and was pushed a massive pot.
A string of preflop raises had Paula Rasmussen all in and at risk against Alex Visbisky in a 250,000 chip pot.
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The board ran out safe for Rasmussen coming ![]()
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and she raked in a big double up.
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 500
The players have been sent on a 10-minute break.
After having her stack cut in half earlier, Marcy Jo Phillips was able to bring it back up to 77,500 when she moved all in preflop being put at risk by Peter Mancini.
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Phillips had her opponent dominated but a ![]()
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run out gave Mancini a flush and Phillips was sent to the rail.
Jason Eisele opened to 11,000 and called a three-bet shove from Matt Marcinkiewicz for 69,000. The two were racing with Eisele having a slight edge with the ![]()
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and Marcinkiewicz hit both of his outs to double.