Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Level: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Jesse Rockowitz just open-raised all in for his last 81,000, and the table folded back around to the player in the small blind who called. Rockowitz showed and his opponent .
The flop came , putting Rockowitz out in front. The turn was the and the river the , and Rockowitz doubled back to 170,000.
David Peters opened with a raise to 16,000, Kima Kimura reraised to 32,000, and a third player pushed all in behind. Peters responded by reshoving his big stack, and Kimura called with her remaining chips.
Peters showed , Kimura , and the third player . The flop came , putting Kimura in front. The turn was the . Then came the river -- the -- giving the advantage back to Peters and giving him the big pot.
Two more knockouts there, and Peters moves up over 600,000.
When we arrived at the table, the board spread out . There were three players in the hand, and one of them all in.
The all in player tabled and took the pot. Ognjen Sekularac tabled and was not very happy. He has slipped to 180,000 chips.
A player moved all in middle position for about 76,000 chips and the action folded to Jesse Rockowitz in the small blind. Rockowitz eventually called.
Showdown
Rockowitz:
Opponent:
The board gave Jesse Rockowitz 300,000 chips and his opponent a passport to the rail.
We heard about this one after the fact. A player opened with a raise to 21,000, then Dan Hart made a minimum reraise to 34,000. Micah Johnson then made it 120,000 to go from the button.
The original raiser folded -- pocket queens, he said afterwards -- and Hart, who had Johnson covered, made the call. Hart showed and Johnson .
The flop came -X-X, giving Hart a set. But the turn and river brought two more non-pairing spades, and Johnson's flush was best. Johnson moves to 340,000, while Hart slips to 240,000.
Takashi Ogura has added a few to his stack while knocking out a competitor here in the late stages of play. His opponent was all in with against Ogura's . The flop came and Ogura was still behind. But the came on the turn, giving him a better pair. And the on the river gave his opponent a set, but completed a club flush for Ogura, knocking out his opponent.
He's at 195,000 now.
Jesse Rockstein was given the honor of drawing the card to see how many more hands would be played here at the end of Level 18, and he drew a trey.
Matthew Shepsky had a big stack earlier today, though had slipped back to the middle of the pack as the field began to shrink.
Just now he found himself in a hand in which an opponent raised, he reraised, his opponent shoved, and Shepsky called with the rest of his stack.
Shepsky was in decent shape with against his opponent's . But the board came , giving his opponent the straight and sending Shepsky home just before we wrap it up tonight.