From early position, Gary Leibovitz raised to 26,000. Action folded to Dave MacDonald in the small blind and he poped it to 81,000. Leibovitz called and a 
flop followed.
MacDonald moved all in for 168,000 and Leibovitz called with 
, but was behind MacDonald's 
. The 
turn and 
river were little help to Leibovitz, denting his stack to 99,000. MacDonald has about 515,000 now.
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We just counted Tom Nasuti at 155,000, but returning to the table, we find him missing. Nasuti has been eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
950,000 | 260,000 |
|
|
870,000 | -70,000 |
|
740,000 | -90,000 |
|
710,000 | -130,000 |
|
|
655,000 | 45,000 |
|
|
630,000 | -30,000 |
|
|
610,000 | 120,000 |
|
460,000 | -70,000 |
|
|
330,000 | 35,000 |
|
285,000 | -30,000 |
|
|
255,000 | -40,000 |
|
250,000 | -100,000 |
|
215,000 | 35,000 |
|
170,000 | -100,000 |
|
165,000 | -5,000 |
|
165,000 | 5,000 |
|
160,000 | -20,000 |
|
|
155,000 | -35,000 |
|
|
155,000 | -185,000 |
|
|
150,000 | 20,000 |
|
150,000 | -20,000 |
|
|
125,000 | -25,000 |
|
125,000 | 15,000 |
Dale Friedlander is our last lady standing, and she's sure doing her part to stick around.
Friedlander has been grinding the short stack all day, and we just saw her involved in a pot for her tournament life. It was three-handed when we walked up to a 
flop, and the first player and Friedlander had checked. That brought the action to Marc Levy, and he put out a bet of 80,000 into a pot of about 125,000. The player in the middle tanked and folded, but Friedlander quickly called all in for her last 34,000.
Showdown
Friedlander: 
Oh... well Levy did a bit of a double-clutch before showing down his 
, now drawing slim to four outs. The turn 
was no help to Levy, and neither was the 
river, and Friedlander is sticking around. We've got her at about 190,000 now, her high point of the tournament from what we can tell.
Level: 22
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
We've got two more levels to play tonight. But first, a ten-minute break!
After slipping below the 300,000 mark for a little while, Andrew Touchette is back to around 315,000 after a scoring an elimination.
He opened the action with a raise to 18,000 under the gun. A player in middle position re-raised all in for 76,000 and when action folded back to Touchette, he thought it over for about a minute. He opted to call and tabled 
, racing against his opponent's 
. The board ran out 
to give Touchette a timely boost to his stack.
Austin Bucanan and Zhen Cai are among the chip leaders, and they're seated together at Table Fiftysomething over there. What's more important is the fact that they seem intent on playing big pots with each other.
Just a minute ago, Cai opened to 16,000, and Buchanan three-bet to 48,000 from the blinds. Cai called, and the flop came out 
. Buchanan continued out with a bet of 66,000, and Cai yielded to the aggression.
Just a couple hands later, the preflop action repeated with Cai opening to 16,000 and Buchanan three-betting to 48,000. This time, Cai peeked up from his downward gaze to send one of a meaningful smirks across the table before spinning his cards into the muck.
It feels like there's a million-chip pot brewing between these guys at some point.
Jesse Okonczak is up to about 490,000 after winning a race against an opponent. Okonczak's pocket fives defeated his opponent's 
, even after the flop rolled out 
. The turn and and river did not hit Okonczak's opponent, propelling Jesse to about a half million in chips.
On a 
board, Sangni Zhao found himself all in and in need of help with 
against Jerry Zehr's 
. Zhao found none as the 
turn and river sent him to the pay out line, which is down to about a single-digit wait finally.
Zehr, on the other hand, is going strong with about 660,000.
