Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Level: 20
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Players are now on a 15-minute break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,250,000
290,000
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290,000 |
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1,026,000
631,000
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631,000 |
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942,000
441,000
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441,000 |
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700,000
14,000
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14,000 |
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615,000
80,000
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80,000 |
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480,000
265,000
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265,000 |
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450,000
286,000
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286,000 |
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446,000
310,000
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310,000 |
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235,000
93,000
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93,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Arish Nat, the tournament chip leader just an hour ago, is now absent from the Harveys Lake Tahoe poker room, while Joe Brindle, seated to the left of where Nat was, is on nearly a million chips.
Brindle confirmed to PokerNews that he did indeed knock out Nat, and provided deatils of the big hand.
Nat open raised, Brindle three-bet and Nat called. The flop came ![]()
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, and Nat check-called a 50,000 bet from Brindle.
The turn came
, Nat checked, Brindle bet 120,000, and Nat went all in. Brindle made the call.
Arish Nat: ![]()
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Joe Brindle: ![]()
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Nat's two pair were no good against the top set of Brindle, and a brick river was a formality as Barindle took the chip lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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960,000 |
Joey Weissman opened to 23,000 from the button, and Joe Brindle called from the big blind.
Brindle check-called a 16,000 bet on the ![]()
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flop. Both players then checked the
turn.
Both players again checked on the
river, and Weissman's ![]()
was best against Brindle's ![]()
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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960,000
739,000
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739,000 |
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471,000
251,000
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251,000 |
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Erle Mankin opened to 18,000 from the cutoff, and got callers in Thomas Morris and Wesley Nally in the blinds.
Action checked to Mankin on the ![]()
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flop, and he put out a bet for 27,000, with Morris calling and Nally folding.
The turn came
, and Morris check-folded to a 45,000 bet from Mankin.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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501,000
241,000
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241,000 |
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240,000
63,000
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63,000 |
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200,000
92,000
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92,000 |
John Nethery opened to 21,000 in early position, and got three callers.
The flop came ![]()
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, action checked to Nethery, and he bet 32,000. William Donovan folded from the cutoff, the button folded, and Alex Greenblatt folded from the big blind. Nethery turned over ![]()
as he collectd the pot, good for the broadway straight.
"Fantastic, Zach," said Nethery to the dealer. "Keep ;em coming."
Nethery is among the chip leaders as Level 19 plays on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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686,000
236,000
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236,000 |
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230,000
107,000
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107,000 |
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115,000
45,000
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45,000 |