Albert Kant raised from the button to 34,000 preflop. Ryan Perez folded in the small blind and John Kurfman wanted to see Kant's remaining chips.
After he saw the remaining stack, Kurfman called from the big blind.
The flop came and Kurfman checked. Kant bet 32,000 and Kurfman called. The turn was the and both players checked.
Kurfman took down the pot when he led for 80,000 after the hit the river.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
John Kurfman
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946,000
|
66,000
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Albert Kant
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164,000
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-66,000
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Albert KantJohn Kurfman
John Hayes just eliminated Zal Irani after Irani shoved and Hayes called with preflop.
The board ran out and Hayes won with a pair of jacks.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
John Hayes
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395,000
|
5,000
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Zal Irani
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Busted
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Zal IraniJohn Hayes
Gerald Heckathorn eliminated Former MSPT Champion Jason Mirza when the two players got all in preflop.
Heckathorn raised and Mirza shoved all in. Heckathorn called with and Mirza was behind with .
The board ran out and Mirza's day was done. Heckathorn is now over one-million chips.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Gerald Heckathorn
|
1,100,000
|
735,000
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Jason Mirza
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Busted
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Gerald HeckathornJason Mirza
Kyle Adams shoved all in for his last 112,000 and Albert Kant was in the tank with three players behind him.
After at least two minutes, Kant called and the three players folded, leaving Kant heads up with Adams.
Kant turned over and Adams .
"It's okay, I got the nuts," said Adams. The is apparently widely known as the "Ho-Chunk nuts."
Unfortunately for Adams, the "nuts" wasn't good enough when the board ran out . Adams was eliminated in 21st place for a pay out of $2,564.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Albert Kant
|
320,000
|
175,000
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Kyle Adams
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Busted
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Kyle AdamsAlbert Kant
The players are on a ten-minute break. There are 21 players remaining.
Ryan Perez just left Eddie Blumenthal with the wind knocked out of him, and all his chips too.
The board read and Perez checked to Blumenthal. Blumenthal shoved all in for 270,000 more into the pot of 200,000.
Perez called and showed for a straight. Blumenthal couldn't believe it he flopped a set of nines and was now out of the tournament.
Perez just barely edged out John Kurfman for the current chip lead.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
Ryan Perez
|
835,000
|
485,000
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Eddie Blumenthal
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Busted
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Eddie BlumenthalRyan Perez
John Kurfman is the chip leader with over 800,000.
Player |
Chips |
Progress |
John Kurfman
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820,000
|
445,000
|
Lee Rzentkowski
|
482,000
|
-146,000
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Thomas Peebles
|
461,000
|
256,000
|
Joseph Miller
|
450,000
|
45,000
|
Andrew Rubinberg
|
290,000
|
11,000
|
Shane Thorne
|
174,000
|
-41,000
|
Shawn Quinn
|
134,000
|
-103,000
|
James Casement
|
110,000
|
-115,000
|
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John Kurfman