Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/25,000
Ante: 25,000
Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/25,000
Ante: 25,000
Today is the final flight for the B]$1,100 buy-in, $1,000,000 Guaranteed PokerNews Cup at Golden Nugget Las Vegas! Late registration will close at approximately 8:45 p.m. local time.
The tournament featured three starting flights and the surviving players from each flight will return at Noon on Monday, June 27 to play down to the final table, which will play out at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28.
PokerNews will be on-site throughout the duration to offer live updates, videos, social media content, and more.
The elimination of Eric Nathan, AKA Barstool Nate, went unreported when it happened earlier in the day, but PokerNews was able to learn some details after the fact.
The man himself explained that the small blind ripped it preflop with and he called off for 350,000 in the big with the .
Barstool Nate flopped two hearts to go with his overs, which made him a slight favorite, but he bricked both the turn and river to bust the tournament early on Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Barstool Nate | Busted |
Players are on their first break of the day and have been informed it will likely be upwards of 30 minutes instead of 15.
The tournament clock currently shows 893 players remaining, meaning we've lost nearly half the field through two hours of play.
Joining the action on the flop of the big blind checked to Abraham Serrano who bet 40,000 from under the gun. The big blind called.
The turn was the and Serrano bet 100,000 when checked to. His opponent stared him down before deciding to fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Abraham Serrano | 900,000 | 89,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Oscar Zavala | 2,300,000 | |
Marc Wolpert | 1,750,000 | 1,093,000 |
Danny Grogan | 1,300,000 | 292,000 |
David Ivers | 1,200,000 | 532,000 |
Mary Dvorkin | 970,000 | -418,000 |
Donnie Peters | 810,000 | -171,000 |
Ren Lin | 490,000 | 123,000 |
Marle Spragg | 380,000 | 380,000 |
The Day 1a chip leader has continued his form going into Day 2 as he was seen scooping in more chips into his mountain of a stack. He told PokerNews that he had just set over set his opponent to move up to 2,000,000 and likely continued to be the biggest stack in the room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Kao "Flexx" Saechao | 2,000,000 | 486,000 |
Anthony Blanda made the final table of the first Colossus event in 2015. His sister, Donna Capute, is in the field today and just busted two players.
According to Capute, she held two aces against ace-queen and pocket fives to win the pot and climb up near 900,000.
"First brother-sister duo trying to make Colossus final tables," Blanda, supporting his sister on the rail, said.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Donna Capute | 840,000 | 840,000 |
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Joining the action, Arthur Gavrilov was already all in and two other players were acting on the flop of .
The small blind bet 200,000 and the middle position player folded.
Arthur Gavrilov:
Small Blind:
The turn was and the river the which gave Gavrilov the double.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Arthur Gavrilov | 300,000 | 10,000 |