There will be an extra day of action in the final bracelet event of the summer, as 12 players are still alive looking to become the next Little One for One Drop champion. None other than Matt Berkey will be in the pole position on Sunday, bagging up a monster stack of exactly 12 million in chips. He surged to the top with some late knockouts, including the last of the night against Luigi Knoppers.
Berkey has double the second biggest stack, Giuseppe Pantaleo, who has 5,175,000. DeJuante Alexander is also still alive hoping to one-up his finish in the Millionaire Maker earlier this summer, where he finished runner-up to Pablo Mariz. Alexander was able to score a late night double up when he won a flip against Kyle Shappelle.
There were exactly 100 players that came back on Saturday. Some of those that were lost along the way were Chris Ferguson (96th), Phong "Turbo" Nguyen (72nd), Jean Gaspard (69th), James Calderaro (64th), Upeshka De Silva (58th), Kevin Eyster (55th), Dan Heimiller (48th), Matt Affleck (42nd), and Eugene Todd (23rd).
Below you will see how the remaining field stacks up, as well as where they will be seated on Sunday. The action will pick up again at 2 p.m., and they will play down to a winner. PokerNews will have all of your updates then, including hand-for-hand coverage of the final table, so be sure to come back and enjoy the action!
Jeremy Dresch got his stack in the middle before the flop against Giuseppe Pantaleo who had him covered.
Dresch:
Pantaleo:
Pantaleo had a commanding lead with his kings and Dresch needed a lot of help from the deck in order to survive. The board ran out , which was no help to Dresch, and Pantaleo took the pot to end his run in this tournament on the last hand of Day 3.
Luigi Knoppers got his stack in the middle before the flop against Matt Berkey who had him covered.
Knoppers:
Berkey:
Berkey had the preflop advantage with the better ace and Knoppers needed help from the deck in order to double up. The board ran out which was no help to Knoppers and Berkey took the pot to end his run in this event.
Huihan Wu moved all of his short stack into the middle from the button and Matt Berkey called from the big blind to put him at risk.
Wu:
Berkey:
Wu had the preflop advantage but Berkey caught up when the flop fell to pair his ten. The turn and river were no help to Wu and Berkey took the pot to send him to the cage.
Action folded around to Martin Lesjoe in the small blind, and he took a peek at the stack of Saya Ono in the big blind before moving all in, having her covered. Ono had about 750,000 behind, and she took a look at her cards, hesitated briefly, then called.
Ono:
Lesjoe:
The flop gave Lesjoe a straight draw, and the on the turn paired him up. Ono needed a jack, ten, seven, or deuce to avoid elimination, but the came instead to give Lesjoe an unneeded second pair.
Stephen Russo raised, and Kyle Shappelle three-bet shoved to put Russo to a decision for his stack. After a few moments of thought, Russo called.
Russo:
Shappelle:
Russo was racing for his tournament life and needed to improve in order to double up. The board ran out , which was no help to Russo, and he was eliminated.
Robenito Roxas moved all in for his final 605,000 from under the gun, and it folded around to Giuseppe Pantaleo, who asked for an exact count. Once he got it, he thought for about 45 seconds before calling.
Pantaleo:
Roxas:
The board came down , and Pantaleo scooped the pot to help him bounce back from the aces loss a few moments ago. Roxas was eliminated.
David Bagheri and Richard Dixon went heads-up to a flop. Dixon checked from the big blind, and Bagheri bet 200,000. Dixon called, and the rolled off on the turn. Dixon checked again, and Bagheri moved all in. Dixon snap-called with , and he was well out in front of the of Bagheri.
The finished out the board, and the rest of Bagheri's chips went on over to Dixon, who vaulted up to 2.8 million after that hand.
Eugene Todd moved all in for his final 500,000 from under the gun, and action folded around to Matt Berkey, who made it 1,000,000 to go on the button. The blinds folded, and they were off to the races.
Todd:
Berkey:
Todd jumped out to the lead on the {10h] flop, but Berkey took it right back with the on the turn. Todd could only hope to chop it with a river eight. A jack came instead, and Berkey scored the bounty to jump his stack to over four million.