For those wondering about that Onnit Labs' Last Sticker Standing competition, it appears that with Natalia Metlach's elimination there remains but one player sporting the sticker — Jan Howard.
We'll leave the official proclaiming of a winner to Onnit, but it looks as though by outlasting the other 50 or so players who wore the Onnit sticker during Event 51, Howard will be due an extra $750 to go along with whatever she manages to win in the event.
In one of the first hands after players returned from the break, Gaelle Baumann opened for 10,000 from the cutoff, Jamie Kerstetter reraised to 20,000 from the button, then Lara Boutros pushed all in for 31,500 total from the big blind. Baumann responded with an all-in shove of her own for about 72,000 total, and after thinking a bit Kerstetter let her hand go.
Boutros showed and Baumann . The dealer then delivered the community cards... a flop, a turn, and a river. "Straight to the jack," said the dealer, and Boutros survived.
Amber Chatwin opened for 10,000 from the button. Stacey Lynn Nutini then checked her cards in the small blind and declared she was all in for 43,500 total. Candida Ross-Powers then checked her cards in the big blind, and in the process managed to expose one of them. Players across the table noted she had done so, identifying the card as the , and the floor was called.
Exposing one's hand with action pending warrants a one-round penalty, explained the tourney director. "You should give her a warning, not a penalty," said Yen Dang, but the rule offers no such leeway, and Ross-Powers is sitting out the next orbit at Table 441.
Two more eliminations — Emilie Lehmann in 25th place, and Kathy Chang in 24th.
Chang's last hand came in a hand versus Yen Dang. After Chang open-raised all in from the small blind for her last 40,000 or so with , Dang called from one seat over with .
The flop was promising for Chang, coming . But the turn was the and river the , and they are now down to three eight-handed tables.
Just had a blind-vs.-blind hand between Rae Rocco and Monica Hinojosa in which all four betting rounds went similarly.
First Hinojosa open-raised to 9,000 from the small blind and Rocco called from the big blind. Then after the flop, Hinojosa bet 9,500 and Rocco called. The turn brought the and another bet from Hinojosa, this time for 16,000. Rocco called once more.
Finally the river brought the and an all-in push by Hinojosa. Rocco called one more time, committing her last 25,000 chips, and turned over for trip tens. Hinojosa showed , and Rocco claimed the chips.
We've just had two more eliminations in close succession, Stacey Lynn Nutini (in 23rd) and Leo Margets (in 22nd).
Nutini's elimination at the hands of Candida Ross-Powers came as we were gathering another hand, but she gives us the skinny via Twitter:
lasvegaspokers Stacey LynnOut in 23rd. Folded to my button I jam a7, sb calls with 99 and I flop a 7 but don't catch up. $5155. Thanks everyone for so much loveJune 30 2012
For Margets her end came as the result of a couple of hands. The first saw a short-stacked Monica Hinojosa double through Margets with versus Margets's after the board came seven-high.
Soon after that, Margets was down to 50,000, shoving all in from the small blind with , and getting called by Freda Lawrence in the big blind holding . The board ran out , and Margets hit the rail. As Nutini alludes to in her tweet, both she and Margets take away $5,155 for their efforts.
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