Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
A middle-position player opened to 2,500, and Ray Niepoetter called from the hijack.
The middle-position player continued for 3,500 on the ![]()
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flop, and Niepoetter called.
Facing a 7,000 bet on the
turn, Niepoetter shoved for 37,000, and the opponent tanked for a bit, then folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
56,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
One hand after winning a flip with ace-king against the pocket jack of Brett Reichard, John Dennehey got his last 60,600 chips in preflop and was in rough shape against Paul Flynn.
John Dennehey: ![]()
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Paul Flynn: ![]()
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Dennehey was in rough shape against the aces of Flynn, but the ![]()
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flop bailed Dennehey out with top set. The
turn gave Flynn some chop outs, but the
river instead gave Dennehey quads and the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
125,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
|
25,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Tim Flank limped under the gun, the cutoff raised to 3,500, and the small blind called.
Flank put in the three-bet to 14,800, and both opponents folded. The pot puts Flank over the 70k mark as Level 10 plays on.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
73,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
105,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
90,000
50,500
|
50,500 |
|
|
85,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
77,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
|
73,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
65,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
62,500
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
|
51,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
|
50,000
23,500
|
23,500 |
|
|
37,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
37,000
14,300
|
14,300 |
|
|
26,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
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|
|
22,100
31,900
|
31,900 |
|
|
11,700
18,800
|
18,800 |
Tim Vance raised to 2,500 from early position, and was called by a player in middle position, as well as both of the blinds.
Action checked down to the river of a ![]()
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board, where the small blind led out for 3,000. The big blind folded, Vance called, and the middle-position player folded.
The small blind tabled ![]()
, and Vance, who in 2008 won EPT Copenhagen for over $1.2 million dollars, turned over ![]()
and said, "Chop chop!"
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
With ![]()
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on the board, Michael Lane, in the hijack, and Jason Seitz, in the small blind, got all of the chips in. Lane's 57,200 bet was the smaller of the two.
Michael Lane: ![]()
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Jason Seitz: ![]()
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The turn
and river
changed nothing, and Seitz is near 150k in the aftermath.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
147,000
97,000
|
97,000 |
|
|
Busted |
An early position player opened to 2,200, and got three callers, including Casey Carroll on the button.
The flop came ![]()
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, the big blind checked, and the original raiser continuation bet for 5,000. The player on the direct left call, and Carroll raised to 13,000.
The big blind folded, the original raiser shoved for 45,300, the player on his left called, and Carroll called, pushing his 53,900 total into the middle.
Original Raiser: ![]()
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Direct Left: ![]()
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Casey Carroll: ![]()
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Carroll's set of fours had his two opponents drawing nearly dead, and no miracles came on the
turn and
river.
Carroll's stack had both opponents covered, sending both to the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
142,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
After Jason McQueer raised preflop from middle position, the small blind three-bet shoved for 27,000. McQueer snapped the small blind off.
Opponent: ![]()
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Jason McQueer: ![]()
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"The rich get richer!" one of McQueer's tablemates quipped.
The ![]()
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flop gave the small blind four outs to survive, but the
turn and
river scored the knockout for McQueer.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
185,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
205,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
175,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
120,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
118,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
88,000 | |
|
|
87,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
85,000
12,300
|
12,300 |
|
|
80,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
65,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
57,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
52,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
50,500
18,500
|
18,500 |
|
|
50,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
46,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
40,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
32,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
|
32,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
|
|
31,000
8,900
|
8,900 |
|
|
29,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
|
|
15,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
14,700
4,700
|
4,700 |