$2,650 SHRPO Big 4 Event 21 (Single Re-Entry)
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24: 10,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 385
After two full days of tournament poker, the 385-entry field in the $2,650 no-limit hold’em is down to its final nine players with Faraz Jaka taking a commanding chip lead into the third and final day.
Day 2 started Monday at noon with Raj Vohra leading the 75 players that survived Day 1. In just under three hours, it was Vohra that burst the bubble when his A-Q won a flip against pocket nines. His victory in the hand secured the top 52 players a cash of at least $4,440.
Over the next nine hours, the 52 players were trimmed down to the final table. It was another Vohra victory that secured that milestone as well when he flopped the nut straight against Mike Morton, who turned two pair. Vohra faded a four-outer on the river and will start the final day second in chips.
Outside of Jaka and Vohra, it’s a final table stacked with poker talent, including WSOP bracelet winner Jessica Dawley, WPT Champion Jordan Cristos, as well as high-stakes pros Thai Ha and Justin Zaki. Zaki comes into the final day as the shortest stack with a little more than four big blinds.
The field as a whole was filled with talent and plenty of top pros. Christian Harder, Darren Rabinowitz, Joe McKeehen, Ben Palmer, Blair Hinkle, Tom Koral, Sheddy Siddiqui, Josh Arieh, Justin Liberto, Matt Salsberg, Maria Ho, and James Carroll were among the pros who finished in the money but busted before the end of the day. Palmer earned the best finish of the bunch with an 11th-place finish.
Play stopped concluded with 27:31 left in the current level. The players will finish the level tomorrow before the subsequent levels switch to 90 minutes in length until heads-up play, when they will be reduced to 60 minutes.
Here is a look at the seating arrangement and chip counts for tomorrow’s final table:
Seat 1: Faraz Jaka – 2,485,000
Seat 2: Jessica Dawley – 1,285,000
Seat 3: Jordan Cristos – 1,040,000
Seat 4: Raj Vohra – 1,740,000
Seat 5: Jake Daniels – 570,000
Seat 6: Phil Rigby – 915,000
Seat 7: Thai Ha – 870,000
Seat 8: Justin Zaki – 115,000
Seat 9: Nicholas Zautra – 605,000
Here are the results thus far:
10th: Mike Morton – $20,460
11th: Ben Palmer – $17,250
12th: Joseph McKeehen – $17,250
13th: Darren Rabinowitz – $14,370
14th: Sam Rashid – $14,370
15th: Christian Harder – $14,370
16th: Josh Arieh – $11,800
17th: Paul Snead – $11,800
18th: Hoan Nguyen – $11,800
19th: Matt Salsberg – $9,800
20th: Jeannette Mendez – $9,800
21st: Maria Ho – $9,800
22nd: Justin Liberto – $8,320
23rd: Colin Robinson – $8,320
24th: James Carroll – $8,320
25th: Femi Fashakin – $6,850
26th: Sheddy Siddiqui – $6,850
27th: Glenn Blumberg – $6,850
28th: Armando Jose Collado Lanuza – $5,600
29th: John Richards – $5,600
30th: Kenny Huynh – $5,600
31st: Trung Pham – $5,600
32nd: Brian Arbaugh – $5,600
33rd: Aylar Lie – $5,600
34th: Brian Stewart – $5,600
35th: Kyle Taddei – $5,600
36th: Nam Phan – $5,600
37th: Jeff Trudeau – $5,000
38th: Bryce McVay – $5,000
39th: Steve Karp – $5,000
40th: David Tuthill – $5,000
41st: Harry Cullen – $5,000
42nd: Nelson Beck – $5,000
43rd: Matthew Wantman – $5,000
44th: Otto Palacios – $5,000
45th: Blair Hinkle – $5,000
46th: Harry Ross – $5,000
47th: Adam Demersseman – $4,440
48th: Joseph Couden – $4,440
49th: Noel Atherley – $4,440
50th: Tom Koral – $4,440
51st: Michael Hallen – $4,440
52nd: Ralph Wong – $4,440