Level: 11
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Level: 11
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Jamie O'Connor was all in for his last 29,000 in early position and up against Francisco Benitez in the big blind.
Jamie O'Connor: A?10?
Francisco Benitez: 9?9?
O'Connor took the lead on the A?A?6? flop with trip aces, and Benitez couldn't find any miracles on the 2? turn or J? river and handed over the pot to O'Connor.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Francisco Benitez |
75,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
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Jamie O'Connor |
60,000
3,500
|
3,500 |
Action was three ways with what looked like around 100,000 in the pot and a full board of 4?10?A?6?5?.
Play had checked to Eros Calderone, who fired 40,000 from middle position. Sam Grafton called from the big blind and Quan Zhou went into the tank from the next seat over. After a few minutes of thought, Zhou tossed in the chips to call.
Calderone turned over 10?7? for a flopped pair of tens, but Grafton showed 6?5? for two pair. Zhou shook his head and mucked the losing hand and Grafton dragged the pot.
Meanwhile, Tom Vogelsang and Boris Kolev have joined the tournament while Renat Bohdanov and Maher Nouira have hit the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Quan Zhou |
335,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
Sam Grafton |
268,000
104,000
|
104,000 |
Boris Kolev |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Tom Vogelsang |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Eros Calderone |
98,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Renat Bohdanov | Busted | |
Maher Nouira | Busted | |
|
Tom Orpaz increased his chip lead to more than 900,000 by recently busting two players.
According to Orpaz, Renat Bohdanov raised to 8,000 from under the gun and Orpaz called in the small blind with A?4?. The flop came 5x3x2x with two hears, giving Orpaz the straight, and he raised to 18,000 after Bohdanov bet 6,000.
Bohdanov raised to 43,000, Orpaz moved all in, and Bohdanov called for around 100,000 with two fives for a flopped set. The board ran out Q?7? and Orpaz sent him to the rail.
Orpaz busted Nicolas Chouity at this table a few hands earlier with two kings.
"I was reading the updates yesterday and wondered why you kept getting mentioned," tablemate Daniel Rezaei joked with him afterward.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Orpaz |
920,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
Nicolas Chouity | Busted | |
|
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Renat Bohdanov | Busted |
Francisco Benitez bet 10,000 from early position on a flop of Q?5?10? and Daisuke Ogita called in the big blind.
The turn came the 6? and Ogita led out for 16,000. Benitez immediately came back with an all-in shove for 54,000.
Ogita tanked for nearly a minute before mucking as Benitez, the defending champion of this event, took down the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daisuke Ogita |
310,000
40,500
|
40,500 |
Francisco Benitez |
95,000
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
|
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Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Keith Lehr |
100,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
Luis Rodolfo Gonzalez Moran
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Alex Keating |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
[Removed:432]
|
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Nicolas Chouity | Busted | |
|
Heads-up on a board of 10?Q?9?7?, Keith Lehr bet 10,000 from the cutoff and Daniel Rezaei called in the big blind.
The river came the 10? and Rezaei checked over to Lehr again, who this time flicked out a 25,000 chip.
"Come on Daniel. Play for it all," Lehr said as Rezaei tanked for a moment. Rezaei let out a big laugh before tossing his cards into the middle.
Lehr took a deep breath as he dragged in the pot. "It looked like you were about to call," he told Rezaei while showing the A?.
"I was about to call," Rezaei replied.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Daniel Rezaei |
600,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
Keith Lehr | 130,000 |
Just before blinds went up, Eros Calderone raised to 6,000 from late position before Mathias Duarte called from the next seat over. Mladen Nincevic came along from the small blind and Sam Grafton called from the big blind.
The flop was 2?J?5? and action checked to Duarte for a bet of 12,000. Nincevic thought for a moment and raised to 30,000, which sent Grafton and Calderone out of the pot. Duarte called and the turn was 4?.
Nincevic quickly shoved the turn for around 63,000 and Duarte gave it a moment of thought before he called with more. Duarte showed the A?J? for a pair of jacks, which was good enough to beat Nincevic's Q?J? and send him to the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mathias Duarte |
263,000
153,500
|
153,500 |
Sam Grafton |
164,000
-25,500
|
-25,500 |
Eros Calderone |
55,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
Mladen Nincevic | Busted |
Level: 10
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000