Moving On
These players won their tables in quick succession.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Brad Helm | 90,000 | |
Jonathan Tamayo | 90,000 | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 90,000 | |
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Matthew Schwarmann | 81,000 |
These players won their tables in quick succession.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Brad Helm | 90,000 | |
Jonathan Tamayo | 90,000 | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 90,000 | |
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Matthew Schwarmann | 81,000 |
Antoine Saout and Marco Antonio Hernandez played heads up for the better part of two levels, and on the final hand, both players flopped a pair of queens on a board of . Saout's trailed Hernandez's however, and the board ran out , , eliminating him from the tournament.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Marco Antonio Hernandez
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90,000 | |
Antoine Saout | Busted |
Christian Harder defeated Michael Benvenuti heads up to advance to Day 2. Harder held against Benvenuti's , and Benvenuti shoved on the river with the board reading . Harder called, and won the match.
On a neighboring table, Ryan D'Angelo put the finishing touches on his heads-up opponent. The player jammed ten big blinds with the button, and D'Angelo called with two deuces, and held.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ryan D'Angelo |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
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Christian Harder |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
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Michael Benvenuti | Busted |
Antonio Esfandiari just defeated Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier in their heads up match. The Magician had the Frenchman severely outchipped and took Esfandiari about 30 minutes to beat him.
Jeff Frerichs, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Hung Tran and Marco Hernandez also moved on from the Silver section.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Antonio Esfandiari |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
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Jeff Frerichs | 90,000 | |
Marc-Andre Ladouceur | 90,000 | |
Hung Tran | 90,000 | |
Marco Hernandez | 90,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Heather Sue Mercer |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
Huy Nguyen |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
Marco Liesy | 81,000 |
So it's time for the dinner break. Players can take the full 90 minutes or some players can stay and play another level and then take a 30 minute break.
John Phan was first to act, and opened for a raise. A player on the button moved all in for 7,725, Matt Jarvis re-shoved for 14,350, and the action was on Mike Leah in the big blind.
"Wow," sighed Leah.
Leah tanked for quite some time before folding, and then Phan went into the tank. He eventually called, and all three hands were tabled.
Phan | |
Opponent | |
Jarvis |
"I folded two black eights," Leah announced.
The flop gave the original shover the lead, but the spiked on the turn, giving Jarvis a leading set of nines. The bricked on the river, and Jarvis shipped the whole pot.
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Melanie Weisner won Table 16, and she'll return for Day 2 tomorrow.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Melanie Weisner |
90,000
81,000
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81,000 |
Justin Bonomo, Hiram Patel and Victor Shuchleib are all moving on to the next round.
Shuchleib defeated Russel Crane to win his table. The last hand saw Shuchleib hold on a board. Crane had pocket queens on his last hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Hirem Patel
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90,000 | |
Victor Shuchleib | 90,000 | |
Justin Bonomo |
81,000
72,000
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72,000 |
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