Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
370,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
355,000
355,000
|
355,000 |
|
|
350,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
On a flop of ![]()
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, a player in the small blind and Nate Dennis in early position checked to Matt Kirby in late position who bet 6,000. The small blind called, and Dennis then check-raised to 25,000. Only Kirby made the call.
On the
turn, Dennis continued his aggression with a bet of 40,000. the three-time MSPT Main Event winner responded by moving all in for approximately 150,000.
After about a minute of deliberation, Dennis folded to preserve his stack, while Kirby raked in a big pot to vault up toward the chip leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
260,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
|
116,000
61,500
|
61,500 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Dan Bekavac saw his first buy-in dwindle down to zero, but he's since rebought and within his first orbit he's doubled up twice to return to a stack of over 100,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
102,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
Jeff Heiberg's stack had dwindled to under 100,000 despite making several big hands today, but he just hit another one to vault back up and eliminate Adam Joens.
Heiberg raised to 4,500 from under the gun and was called by Joens in the big blind.
After Joens checked a flop of ![]()
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, Heiberg continued for 5,000. This was met by a check-raise to 13,000 from Joens.
Heiberg responded by moving all in for Joens' remaining 55,000, which Joens called.
Adam Joens: ![]()
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Jeff Heiberg: ![]()
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Joens had the nuts with a nine-high straight and a redraw to a flush, while Heiberg held top set.
The turn brought no help to Heiberg with the
, but the
fell on the river to give Heiberg quad nines and a huge win to boost his stack back over 150,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
345,000
345,000
|
345,000 |
|
|
256,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
|
185,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
177,500
103,500
|
103,500 |
|
|
150,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
135,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
Bodies have been flying out the door over the last two hours, with just 87 of the 231 entries remaining in the field through nine levels of play.
They'll return in ten minutes for the final three levels of play before re-entry and late registration closes.
Donald Stanage was just seen stacking a mountain of chips that used to belong to Billy Etherington.
According to the players, On a flop of ![]()
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, they piled in over 200,000 chips, with Stanage all-in.
Donald Stanage: ![]()
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Billy Etherington: ![]()
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As if the set over set cooler wasn't enough, Stanage drilled the
on the river to add insult to injury with quad queens.
Stanage is now among the chip leaders with the huge victory.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
220,000
220,000
|
220,000 |
|
|
28,000
92,000
|
92,000 |