More than nine hours ago no one held more chips than Rahul Deevara, who finished as the Day 1b chip leader with 466,000. He no doubt had high hopes of taking down the title, but those hopes just came to an end in 27th place.
We caught the action with roughly 120,000 in the pot and a board reading . Corrie Wunstel had checked and Deevara bet 55,000. Wunstel then woke up with a check-raise to 126,000 and Deevara thought long and hard before moving all in for 370,000 total. Wunstel snap-called with the and Deevara was drawing with the .
Deevara finished in 27th place and earned $6,961 for his efforts.
In a three-bet pot, Daniel Bishop got all of his chips in the middle on a flop of holding . Unfortunately for him, Daniel Weinman had him in rough shape with .
The queens held as the turn and river bricked , respectively, and Bishop was eliminated.
Daniel Weinman opened to 32,000, Robert Panitch called on the button, and Nick Jivkov defended out of the big blind.
The flop fell , Jivkov and Weinman checked, and Pantich fired out 100,000. Only Weinman called.
The turn was the , Weinman checked again, and Pantich tossed out 200,000. Weinman tank-called.
Weinman led for the first time after the completed the board, announcing, "Four-fifty." He cut out 450,000 in blue T25,000 chips, and slid them forward.
Pantich went deep into the tank, eventually taking off his coat. He finally grabbed his cards and tossed them into the muck, leaving himself with 570,000 chips. Weinman now has 2.3 million.
Last year Daniel Lowery made the final table of this very event and ultimately finished in fourth place. After finishing second on Day 1a and capturing the chip lead earlier today, it seemed he was destined for a final table repeat. Unfortunately for him, that dream just came to an end.
It happend when Brad Johnson opened for 40,000 from early position and Lowery, who won his first ring here at Harrah's New Orleans last week, moved all in from the hijack for 392,000. The rest of the field folded and Johnson snap-called off his stack of 384,000
Lowery:
Johnson:
Lowery was in need of some major help, and he got a little on the flop. He paired his nine, but he'd need another or running clubs to clinch victory. The wasn't what he needed, and neither was the river.
Lowery, who was left with only 8,000 in chips, got it in on the very next hand holding the only to run into the of Sandra Wong, who was the River Rock (Vancouver) Casino Champion earlier this season. The aces prevailed once again and Lowery was eliminated in 24th place, falling shy of making the final table for the second year in a row.
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. Corrie Wunstel had checked and Deevara bet 55,000. Wunstel then woke up with a check-raise to 126,000 and Deevara thought long and hard before moving all in for 370,000 total. Wunstel snap-called with the 
and Deevara was drawing with the 
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holding 
. Unfortunately for him, Daniel Weinman had him in rough shape with 
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respectively, and Bishop was eliminated.
, Jivkov and Weinman checked, and Pantich fired out 100,000. Only Weinman called.
, Weinman checked again, and Pantich tossed out 200,000. Weinman tank-called.
, and was in good shape to double up against Brad Johnson's 
, but the 
turned, giving Johnson a pair. The 
flop. He paired his nine, but he'd need another or running clubs to clinch victory. The 
wasn't what he needed, and neither was the 
only to run into the 
