Action folded to Matthew McEwan who raised to 80,000. It folded to the big blind Lucas Blanco, who three-bet to 330,000.
Blanco then took some time, before four betting all-in. Blanco then snap folded to give the pot to McEwan.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,100,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
1,450,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
Bogdan Munteanu raised to 80,000 and Georgios Sotiropoulos shoved for 150,000. It got back to Munteanu and he made the cal.
Georgios Sotiropoulos: 5♥5♦ 
Bogdan Munteanu: A♠5♣
No ace appeared on the K♣2♦J♥7♠10♠ runout which kept Sotiropoulos alive with 19 players remaining.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,600,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
400,000
860,000
|
860,000 |
|
||
Level: 24
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 50,000
Action was on the turn with the board reading A♥5♣4♦Q♠. From the big blind, Brandon Schwartz check-raised a bet of 150,000 from Yang Zhang up to 450,000 which Zhang called in the cutoff.
The river came the J♠. Schwartz quickly jammed all in and Zhang folded after a few seconds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,100,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
||
|
2,950,000
1,500,000
|
1,500,000 |
Xuming Qi shoved from the button from 615,000 and Jake Schwartz made the call from the small blind .
Xuming Qi: 5♣5♥
Jake Schwartz: K♣Q♣
The board ran out in Qi's favor as the 10♥2♠8♥10♠10♦ board gave him a full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,500,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
1,350,000
720,000
|
720,000 |
Action was caught after the flop of 5♦J♠K♥ and Ihar Soika led out for 180,000. Mostafa Haidary made the call to the turn.
The turn came the 4♥ and both players were quick to check.
While the river peeled the 2♣, Soika fired for 280,000. Haidary took little time to make the fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,300,000
800,000
|
800,000 |
|
1,000,000
1,130,000
|
1,130,000 |
|
||
Yang Zhang shoved all in from the small blind, and Georgios Sotiropoulos called off his stack of 330,000 from the big blind.
Georgios Sotiropoulos: Q♦7♠
Yang Zhang: Q♣2♣
Zhang improved to a flush draw on the 3♠A♣K♣ flop and paired his deuce on the 2♦ turn. Sotiropoulos needed to find an offsuit seven on the river but the 8♥ wasn't what he was looking for.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,700,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
There will now be a short pause in play while the final 18 players undertake a seat redraw.
| ROOM / TABLE / SEAT | PLAYER | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS | CITY / STATE / COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horseshoe / 626 / 1 | Nenad Dukic | 3,450,000 | 69 | Kragutevae, RS |
| Horseshoe / 626 / 2 | Turbo Nguyen | 2,250,000 | 45 | Tustin, CA, US |
| Horseshoe / 626 / 3 | Richard Dixon | 1,600,000 | 32 | Cheyenne, WY, US |
| Horseshoe / 626 / 4 | Brandon Schwartz | 4,300,000 | 86 | North Bay Village, FL, US |
| Horseshoe / 626/ 5 | Xuming Qi | 1,150,000 | 23 | CN |
| Horseshoe / 626/ 6 | Mostafa Haidary | 1,000,000 | 20 | Guildford, , AU |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 1 | Bogdan Munteanu | 3,300,000 | 66 | RO |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 2 | Sonny Franco | 1,270,000 | 25 | Montagnac, , FR |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 3 | Max Kruse | 2,600,000 | 52 | Hamburg, , DE |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 4 | Pedro Madeira | 725,000 | 15 | Belo Horizonte, , BR |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 5 | Bernd Gleissner | 1,730,000 | 35 | Represa, , DE |
| Horseshoe / 634 / 6 | Ihar Soika | 3,460,000 | 69 | Minsk, , BY |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 1 | Matthew McEwan | 3,200,000 | 64 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 2 | Krasimir Yankov | 1,700,000 | 34 | Blagoevgrad, , BG |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 3 | Lucas Blanco | 1,650,000 | 33 | GB |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 4 | Iaron Lightbourne | 1,500,000 | 30 | LONDON, GB |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 5 | Jake Schwartz | 2,700,000 | 54 | New York, NY, US |
| Horseshoe / 642 / 6 | Yang Zhang | 4,700,000 | 94 | DALIAN, CN |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,700,000 | |
|
|
||
|
|
4,300,000
1,350,000
|
1,350,000 |
|
|
3,460,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
3,450,000
450,000
|
450,000 |
|
|
3,300,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
|
3,200,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
|
2,700,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
2,600,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
|
|
||
|
2,250,000
1,550,000
|
1,550,000 |
|
||
|
1,730,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
1,700,000
600,000
|
600,000 |
|
|
1,650,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
1,600,000
640,000
|
640,000 |
|
1,500,000
450,000
|
450,000 |
|
1,270,000
160,000
|
160,000 |
|
|
1,150,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
|
||
|
725,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
With 14 bracelets and nearly $50 million in tournament earnings between the four of them, there's no denying that Shaun Deeb, Josh Arieh, Daniel Weinman and Matt Glantz are poker crushers. But with resumes that include a $1 million bounty pull, a body fat prop bet victory worth nearly the same amount and a win in the biggest World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in history, it's clear the group of close friends also have luck on their sides.
The four American poker players have branded themselves as "Team Lucky" — a name that Deeb may have come up with, though they aren't certain — as a way of consciously embracing and owning their good fortunes while fighting back against the jaded cynicism all to common in the poker world.
But Team Lucky is about more than once-in-a-lifetime bounty binks and turned two-outers leading to $12 million scores. As PokerNews learned during brunch with its four members, is more about friendship, camaraderie, and shared values than a good run of cards.
