Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
Start-of-the-day chip leader Charbel Azzi took care of a short stack with versus and completed a straight with his kicker on the river to score the knockout.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Charbel Azzi |
630,000
116,000
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116,000 |
Vitaly Kovyazin raised to 17,000 from early position and found two callers including the player in the big blind. The flop came and the player in the small blind checked. Kovyazin bet 36,000 and the first caller opted to fold. After a few moments of thought, the player in the big blind announced that he was all in. Kovyazin immediately leaned back in his chair, tossed his cards into the muck, and shook his head. Despite the small hit, Kovyazin is still sitting with one of the biggest chip stacks in the room with 605,000 in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Vitaly Kovyazin |
605,000
189,500
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189,500 |
Damian Salas lost 15 big blinds in a battle of the blinds with Carter Swidler and was left with only 20,000 in chips. He got that in with against the of Keanu Tabali and the better kicker played on an ace high board.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Keanu Tabali |
428,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
Carter Swidler |
200,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Damian Salas | Busted | |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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S Svedberg | Busted | |
Flavien Guenan | Busted | |
Jean Delay | Busted | |
Boo Jonsson | Busted | |
Yifan Zheng | Busted | |
Gennady Shimelfarb | Busted | |
Leo Wolpert | Busted | |
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Fred Berger | Busted | |
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Andre Schneider | Busted |
Two short stacks were all in for 60,000 and 76,000 when the action got to Stephen Happas one seat over. He tanked for a while and then announced all in himself for 103,000. All other opponents folded and Happas played against and while holding himself.
There was no surprise on the board and Happas knocked out the two short stacks.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Stephen Happas |
240,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
Xiao Peng raised to 16,000 from early position and Jason Shadell called to see the flop. Shadell led out for 25,000 and Peng called before they went on to see the on the turn. Shadell now check-raised all in and Peng had to call 175,000 on top of her bet of 75,000.
The Canadian obliged with for a flush and saw the opponent drawing dead already with . The meaningless river completed the board and Peng is among the biggest stacks with less than 70 players left.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Xiao Peng |
675,000
450,000
|
450,000 |
Jason Shadell | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Akshay Reddy | Busted | |
Fabian Scherle | Busted | |
Tony Cousineau | Busted | |
Tass Robertson | Busted | |
Ying Chan | Busted | |
Damian Salas | Busted | |
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Cossette Spencer | Busted | |
Justin Liberto | Busted | |
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Steven Powers | Busted |
Jose Carlos Garcia raised to 16,000 from early position and Maxim Panyak moved all in for 81,000. After some consideration, Garcia called with and faced . There was a little sweat after the turn but the river blanked out.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jose Carlos Garcia |
530,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Maxim Panyak |
175,000
-160,500
|
-160,500 |
A few photos from players when play got underway today: