Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Ivan Kalinski moved all in from under the gun for 95,000. Karen Karnafel snap-called in the big blind covering Kalinski's stack. The players revealed their holdings.
Ivan Kalinski: 9♠9♦
Karen Karnafel: K♥K♣
Kalinski seemed deflated as he saw he was dominated heading to the flop. On a runout of J♠10♥4♠4♦A♣ Kalinski hit the rail as Karnafel stacked her tower of chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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185,900 | |
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Busted |
Chi Nguyen faced a difficult decision against Konstantinos Tsikopoulos, who casually slid chips into the pot while playing online poker on a tablet.
Tsikopoulos three-bet Nguyen preflop to 25,000, then fired 20,000 on the flop 4♥9♣4♦, another 25,000 on the 9♦ turn. He upped it on the river 6♠ with an all-in shove.
Nguyen studied for several minutes — through several of Tsikopoulos' online plays — before reluctantly folding.
Two hands later, Nguyen was all in against Noah Workman for his last 59,500 chips.
Chi Nguyen: A♣8♣
Noah Workman: 8♦8♥
Nguyen took the lead early, pairing his ace, and held on through a board of 3♣A♥6♥4♥K♠ to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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230,000
230,000
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230,000 |
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139,000
139,000
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139,000 |
Brad Owen is in the $800 deepstack and has built up a 175,000 chip stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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175,000
175,000
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175,000 |
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Level: 15
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
"Why do they call it no limit? They limit how much you can bet, your stack, and how little you can bet, the big blind. It should be two-limit hold'em." — David Moses.
"There are more germs on a doorknob than a toilet seat."
"What about poker chips?"
"Doesn't matter, I'll take all those germs."
"Come on dealer, even Ray Charles could see that straight, dead or alive."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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120,000
120,000
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120,000 |
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We picked up the action on the flop with over 100,000 chips in the middle. Yunlamkevin Choi in the small blind was heads-up with Lisa Tan in the big blind. The flop read A♠K♥5♣ and Choi check-called the 30,000 chip bet from Tan.
After the 4♠ turn card, Choi checked, Tan went all-in for 90,500 chips, and was beaten into the middle by Choi.
Lisa Tan: J♠6♠
Yunlamkevin Choi: A♥A♣
Needing to fade a spade, Choi instead improved to quads on the A♦ river, Tan was eliminated shortly after registration closed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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330,000 | |
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Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
As the turn card hit, gasps erupted from the table on a board of 9♥7♥8♥8♦ as Rajesh Vohra was all in for 44,500 against John Armbrust.
Rajesh Vohra: 8♣8♠
John Armbrust: J♥J♠
The river A♥ gave Armbrust a flush but Vohra's four-of-a-kind was the nuts and Arbrust was eliminated shortly after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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96,000
96,000
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96,000 |
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Busted | |
Event 31: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack 8-handed registration is now closed.
This tournament's prize pool is over $3,000,000, and gathered 4,484 entries.