Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Harry Behling opened for 18,000, and Georgui Martov shoved for about 50,000.
"Gotta get lucky sometime," Behling said, pushing in calling chips.
Behling: ![]()
Martov: ![]()
Behling didn't need luck since he was well ahead, and his sevens held on the ![]()
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board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
170,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Will Liebergen bet 20,000 after Kurt Hennes checked to him out of the blinds on a ![]()
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flop. Hennes pushed all in for 53,000, and Liebergen called.
Liebergen: ![]()
Hennes: ![]()
Both had flopped big hands, but Liebergen needed the board to pair in order to beat Hennes' flush. It did just that when the
turn gave him quads, and a disappointed Hennes made his way to the payouts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
150,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
Busted |
John Morstad just burst one of the shortest bubbles in recent memory when he busted Ernest Garrett all in preflop with ![]()
against Garrett's ![]()
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
260,000
133,500
|
133,500 |
|
|
Busted |
We're now on the bubble, and action is hand-for-hand.
According to a bystander, Kou Vang's quest for a fourth straight Mid-States Poker final table ended when he got all in preflop with ![]()
and lost to ![]()
when his opponent turned a heart flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
The cutoff raised to 16,000 preflop and was called by Jason Sell in the small blind. After the ![]()
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flop, the two got all in after a bet and a few raises.
Sell: ![]()
Cutoff: ![]()
The cutoff had flopped a huge hand with top two, but Sell's bottom set was best. The
didn't help the cutoff, and neither did the
. Sell had him barely covered with 170,000 to 160,000, and he collected the cutoff's stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
370,000
265,000
|
265,000 |
A player shoved all in with a short stack after a ![]()
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flop, and Nik Stone called with ![]()
. His opponent had ![]()
, and he found no improvement on the last two streets.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
350,000
24,000
|
24,000 |