Allen Kessler chopped a couple pots with his short stack before finally relinquishing the rest of his chips on the last hand of the O8 round.
In the cutoff seat, Dustin Leary raised, and Allen Kessler considered for just a moment before calling all in for his last 12,000 on the button. Nobody else wanted to tangle, so the cards were turned up on their backsides with Kessler at risk for his full stack.
Leary:
Kessler:
The board frowned on Kessler as it ran out . "Nines full," announced the dealer, and Kessler just sat there shaking his head. He was unable to find a low or any other way to take part of that pot, and he has been knocked off in 13th place. It was another deep run for the man they call The Chainsaw, but he has run out of gas a few places short of another final table appearance.
Blake Cahail has some chips to work with, and he's put them to good use in the hold'em round. Sitting in the small blind, he was the only caller of Hani Awad's pre-flop raise. Cahail led into Awad on a flop of . Awad raised, allowing Cahail the opportunity to three-bet. Awad called that raise, then called a single bet on the turn and the river . At showdown, Cahail showed two jacks, , to claim the pot.
We picked up the action on fourth street as the board showed . Hani Awad was the one doing the betting, and Daniel Ospina made the call to see the river card.
It was the , and Awad fired out with one last bet. Ospina thought it over for a minute, and he eventually decided on the call. The only problem was that he somehow accidentally stacked out 30,000 and slid it foward, 10,000 too much to be a call.
The floor was called over, and he ruled that it was two bets, sending the decision back to Awad. Without missing a beat, he three-bet it, and Ospina sunk in his chair. After a long soak in the tank and many shakes of the head, he made a reluctant call.
Awad tabled , and his straight was good for the pot. His frustrated opponent shook his head a few more times and placed his cards quietly into the muck.
You can see what a big mistake it was; Ospina is left with just 66,000 now.
Dustin Leary brought it in with the , and Chip Jett completed with the showing. Leary raised, and Jett reraised, and the two men went off to fourth street with a big pot brewing.
Leary paired with the and he bet right back out, and Jett called after drawing the .
On fifth street, the hit Leary's board to give him open trips, and Jett blurted out, "Jesus Christ!" He folded before his fifth card even hit the board, and that unfortunate run of cards has put him down to just 41,000 lonely chips.
By the time Robert Mizrachi and Ken Lennaard (the two players interested in playing the $10,000 Heads-Up championship that had to take refunds due to their deep run in this event) reached fifth street, they raised until Lennaard was all in. Lennaard showed two pair, / , and was in great shape against Mizrachi's pair of kings with no low draw. It got even better for Lennaard on sixth street when Mizrachi bricked and Lennaard improved to aces and queens. That left Mizrachi looking for a king on the river, a card he did not find.
At the exact same moment that Ken Lennaard was all in on Red 375, Daniel Ospina moved all in on Red 376. We didn't get to see any of the action, but at the end of the hand the dealer called, "Payout on 376" and Ospina was waiting to be given his payout slip. He is busto.
Danny Kalpakis got his last 37,000 chips into the middle after a preflop raising war with Ken Lennaard.
Kalpakis:
Lennaard:
There was nothing particularly interesting about the community cards as they ran out . Two pair on board gives the pot to Lennaard's ace kicker, and he has eliminated Danny Kalpakis in 11th place.
We caught up with the action on fourth street as Blake Cahail was betting. Regis Burlot quickly called with his six-deuce showing, and he called another bet when he drew the king on fifth. On sixth, Burlot got his final 25,000 chips into the pot, and the cards were turned up:
Burlot: / / (X)
Cahail: / / (X)
Burlot was in the lead with his made eighty-six, and Cahail would need to improve his eighty-seven to earn the knockout. And improve he would as he pulled the on seventh street to make his seventy-five; now it was Burlot needing to catch some help. He turned over his last card, and it was a useless .
Unable to make the best worst hand on his last try, Regis Burlot is out in 10th place. He'll take home a pay bump up to $16,543 for his work over the last three days.
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. "Nines full," announced the dealer, and Kessler just sat there shaking his head. He was unable to find a low or any other way to take part of that pot, and he has been knocked off in 13th place. It was another deep run for the man they call The Chainsaw, but he has run out of gas a few places short of another final table appearance.
. Awad raised, allowing Cahail the opportunity to three-bet. Awad called that raise, then called a single bet on the turn 
and the river 
. At showdown, Cahail showed two jacks, 
, to claim the pot.
. Hani Awad was the one doing the betting, and Daniel Ospina made the call to see the river card.
, and Chip Jett completed with the 
showing. Leary raised, and Jett reraised, and the two men went off to fourth street with a big pot brewing.
, and was in great shape against Mizrachi's pair of kings with no low draw. It got even better for Lennaard on sixth street when Mizrachi bricked and Lennaard improved to aces and queens. That left Mizrachi looking for a king on the river, a card he did not find.
. Two pair on board gives the pot to Lennaard's ace kicker, and he has eliminated Danny Kalpakis in 11th place.
/ (X)
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