There will be a new champion of this event as the defending champion Joey Couden was seen walking away from the table, falling just short of the final three tables.
There will be a new champion of this event as the defending champion Joey Couden was seen walking away from the table, falling just short of the final three tables.
Another short stack survives after Corey Emery found a double through Anthony Zinno. The chips went in preflop and the short stack was the favorite to win the hand.
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board and Emery lives on, albeit still one of the shortest left in the field.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 0
Two levels are in the books, which means players are on their first 15-minute break of the day.
Alex Visbisky was extremely short and got the last of his chips in preflop over Angel Martinez's min raise just now to find he was the slight underdog.
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board and was last seen heading towards the payouts desk.
From the big blind, Jordan Spurlin raised to 160,000 pre-flop and was called by Brian Norton. The flop came ![]()
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. Spurlin fired again for a substantial amount of 330,000. Norton raised to put himself virtually all in and Spurlin upped it to put Norton's final couple of chips into the middle.
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of Spurlin. But the run out would be brutal to Norton as it came the
on the turn and the
on the river to give Spurlin a huge chip boon.
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board and Brian Norton checked to Raymond Henson who bet 50,000. Back on Norton and he raised 206,000 all in, which sent Henson into the tank. After a minute or so he called and when the cards were turned over, it was the correct decision, with a pair of kings and a flush draw versus Norton's pair of jacks.
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The river was another
and Norton took the pot with trip tens, whilst Henson took the hit.
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Adrian Jimenez bet 160,000 which was called by James Chen. Jimenez revealed ![]()
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which took the pot.
The next hand Jimenez continued his momentum as he made a hefty river bet that forced Chen to fold his hand after having called up until the river.