Several players have waited till the very end of late registration to enter the tournament including Brian Rast, Alex Kostritsyn, Scott Clements and JJ Liu.
We caught the action on fifth street, with Brian Rast showing a pair of eights, and putting out a bet. His opponents called before Rast bet out again. This time he faced a raise, which he and the other player in the hand called. On seventh, Rast and the next player checked, before they faced a raise, which they called.
Chris Tryba completed and was met with one call before Frank Kassela two-bet. Tryba three-bet and both players called before he bet out on fourth. Kassela raised, Tryba three-bet and Kassela was all in for 900 as the unknown player folded as both player's boards ran out as follows leading into seventh.
Tryba: /
Opponent: / (folded on fourth)
Kassela: /
With Kassela spiking his flush and taking one of Tryba's full house outs away, Tryba would flip and slam over his on seventh to make a bigger flush then Kassela. With Kassela drawing to the case , he would unfortunately only find the to end his tournament early as Tryba moved to 17,500 in chips.
The player in Seat 1 led on third street and Mike “The Mouth” Matusow called. Matusow then called another bet on fourth street. Both players caught a king on fifth, Seat 1 led again, but folded when Matusow flicked in a raise.
We joined the action on fifth street where Phil Hellmuth led into his opponent in Seat 6 and was called. Hellmuth fired again on sixth and called when Seat 6 raised. Seat 6’s raise was enough to put him all in and
Once seventh was dealt, Hellmuth opened / for two pair jacks and nines, and beat the / (pair of kings) to send Seat 6 to the showers.
Jake Cody’s opponent was showing two- sixes on fourth street, but opted to check-call a bet. Fifth street came, as he checked again, but beat Cody into the pot with his call.
“There’s no point wasting his time,” said Cody’s opponent, happy to check-call it down.
The same happened on sixth and seventh, before Cody tabled his down cards, having two-pair, which was good for the entire pot.
The prizepool of Event 39 has officially been released with the 558-player field forming a $753,300 prizepool with the top 56 players earning a guaranteed $2,809 in prizemoney. Here are the final table payouts: