Faraz Jaka was in the big blind, facing an all-in bet of 3,500 from a player in early position. Jaka eventually called to put his opponent at risk of elimination.
Jaka:
His opponent:
Jaka had his opponent dominated preflop and then crushed on the flop because it fell , leaving his opponent drawing dead. The and completed the board and boosted Jaka's stack up towards 14,000.
According to Ryan Laplante's Twitter feed, the man from Minnesota has 370 physical chips in his stack, which when added together equal 47,000. This is enough to see Laplante top our current chip counts, but as he says himself, there is a long way to go.
The action passed around to Brandon Meyers on the button and he raised to 900. The small blind folded. Scotland's Niall Farrell took a peek at his hole cards and rested them in front of his chips before three-betting to 2,700.
Meyers asked for confirmation of the bet amount before putting an additional 5,000 into the middle. Farrell had seen enough and mucked his holding.
Event #23 has drawn a total of 1,473 entries, creating a prize pool of $1,325,700. There will be 171 players making the money. The winner will take home a World Series of Poker gold bracelet and $251,969. A min-cash is worth $1,749.
Here are a few more chip counts from around the room. There were a total of 1,473 entrants, which is down slightly from last year. 550 remain and what was once a jam-packed Brasilia room is now half empty. We'll have prize pool and payout information posted soon.
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completed the board and boosted Jaka's stack up towards 14,000.
