Players Are On a 20-Minute Break
The schedule says we'll play two more levels tonight, unless we reach the final nine before that point and we'll stop it right there.
The schedule says we'll play two more levels tonight, unless we reach the final nine before that point and we'll stop it right there.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Here at the start of Level 19, Hongvan Tran was all in preflop with , and was hoping to overcome Holly Hodge's .
The community cards came , and Tran is out in 17th. Hodge is now at 367,000.
Stacy Matuson-Taylor opened with a raise all in for 85,000 from middle position, and Kami Chisholm called from the hijack seat.
Matuson-Taylor
Chisholm
The flop came , and Matuson-Taylor was still best with her treys. But the turn was the , putting Chisholm ahead. The river was the , and Matuson-Taylor is out in 16th.
Chisholm -- a.k.a. "Dr. Kamikaze" -- is up to 420,000.
Drama at the feature table just now, with a three-way all-in!
Monica Champa began the proceedings by open-raising all in for 74,000 from the hijack seat. Kami Chisholm called the raise from the button, then Lisa Teebagy reraised all in for about 95,000 more from the small blind. The BB folded, and Chisholm called the additional amount.
The players turned over their cards: Teebagy , Champa , and Chisholm .
No aces or face cards among the community cards -- -- and Chisholm scored a double knock-out. Since Champa started the hand with fewer chips than Teebagy, Champa ends in 15th and Teebagy in 14th, although both earn the same $8,689.
Meanwhile, Chisholm is our leader now with 682,000.
With that dual elimination of Monica Champa and Lisa Teebagy, we're now down to 13 players.
Yu Kurita was just all in for her tourney life with against La Sengphet's . The flop came , pairing Kurita but giving Sengphet an open-ender. The turn was the , and Kurita was still in front. But the river brought the , giving Sengphet the straight and knocking Kurita out in 13th place.
The bustouts keep coming. We may get to that final table tonight. There is about 25 minutes left in this level, and they'll play one more one-hour level after this if needed -- unless we see three more eliminations first.
Timmi Derosa opened for 40,000 from UTG, and Loren Watterworth reraised all in to 66,000 from the cutoff. Derosa called.
Watterworth showed , while Derosa tabled . The board came , and Watterworth doubled to 153,000. Derosa slipped to 140,000.
Kami Chisholm raised to 23,000, and it folded around to Fatima Gaonach in the small blind who reraised all in for 140,000. Chisholm made the call.
Gaonach tabled and Chisholm . The board ran out , giving Chisholm a boat and knocking Gaonach out in 12th.
Chisholm -- our chip leader by far at the moment -- moves up to 865,000 on that one.