Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 0
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 0
Phillip Reed raised to 6,500 in the hijack seat, Cary Katz called in the small blind before Hoyt Corkins raised the pot from the big blind for around 45,000. Reed and Katz both folded and Corkins showed two red-jacks. Reed responded by telling the table he folded ace-queen.
Antonio Esfandiari raised to 5,100 in the cutoff, Burt Boutin called on the button, JP Kelly called in the small blind as did Marco Traniello in the big blind.
The flop was
and all four players checked. The turn saw the
make an appearance and Kelly bet 12,600, Traniello made the quick call and there were two folds. The river card was the
and the action checked through with Traniello drawing in the pot with
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
150,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
134,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
110,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
110,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
We didn't see how the money got in, but Paul Pritchard committed himself with
on a
flop. He was drawing live for the double as Cary Katz turned over
, but he wasn't drawing live for long.
The
arrived promptly on the turn, and Pritchard was excused one card early. The river was the meaningless
, and Katz stacks up that pot to move close to 200,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
560,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
225,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
225,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
200,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
160,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
149,000
56,000
|
56,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
147,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
|
|
140,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
115,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
110,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
|
110,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
110,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
96,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
90,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
90,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
85,000
26,200
|
26,200 |
|
|
65,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
48,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
48,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
40,000
37,000
|
37,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
22,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
We've just reduced our field down to 45 players, and they're now spread across the final five tables in play.
We've still got more than seven levels to play today, and we figure we'll end with about a dozen players or so by the time the clock runs out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
250,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
185,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
165,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
160,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
155,000
63,500
|
63,500 |
|
|
||
|
|
146,000
33,200
|
33,200 |
|
|
145,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
122,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
121,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
|
120,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
105,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
72,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
52,000
18,700
|
18,700 |
|
|
30,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is up to an ominous looking 160,000 after eliminated Steve O'Dwyer. The action all occurred pre flop with O'Dwyer holding
and ElkY holding
(suited). An ace turned up somewhere on the board and O'Dwyer was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
160,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
Eric Ladny has been eliminated at the hands of Paul Volpe. Ladny entered a pre-flop "potting" war with Volpe; a war that Volpe won when his
held true against the
of Ladny.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
145,000
83,100
|
83,100 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
From the cutoff seat, Shaun Deeb came in raising to 5,500. Leonid Bilokur was on the button and tapping away furiously on his iPad, and he made a reraise to 12,800. Deeb studied for a long while, asked to see Bilokur's stack, then four-bet to 31,700. Bilokur quickly slid out a tower of his high-value chips totaling 83,800, leaving just a few thousand behind. Deeb shoved in, and the cards were on their backs.
Showdown
Deeb:

Bilokur:

Deeb seemed perfectly confident in the abilities of the mighty jack-ten. Sure enough, the
flop gave him a sweat, and the turn
filled in the flush. Deeb needed to fade another heart to secure the knockout, and the river
did just that.
Bilokur tipped over a couple chairs on his way out the door, while Deeb has stacked his way up to about 235,000 chips now.
After the hand, Matt Marafioti needled a bit about the light shove.
"Just pretend I called the three-bet and check-shoved the flop," he said with a smirk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
235,000
93,000
|
93,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
Erik Seidel hopes of the amazing comeback have been dashed by Patrick Cronin. Seidel was reduced to just a single 100 chip after losing a massive pot to Mike McDonald. In the next hand Seidel folded that one chip deciding to wait for a better spot. That better spot appeared when he found
to quintuplet up through Jon Aguiar and Patrick Cronin. That gave him 500 chips and they went into the pot in the next hand. Both blinds called (including Cronin in the BB) and we were three-way to the flop.
Flop:

A bet on the flop by Cronin removed the small blind from the equation and the cards were turned on their backs.
| Cronin | ![]() |
| Seidel | ![]() |
Cronin finds a set and two cards later (
&
) Seidel was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
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