$5,250 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7: 400/800 with a 800 ante
Flight B Entries: 482 (Total Entries: 901)

With the final board showing and about 28K already in the pot, Chino Rheem moved all in from middle position for about 30,000, and Lumni Zhuta went into the tank on the button.

Zhuta eventually folded, and Rheem took the pot, saying, “The river saved you money. I didn’t need that river. I already had it.”

Zhuta responded, “Why didn’t the board pair on the river? I had a set of sixes.”

Rheem said, “You were good on the flop. That was a good check on the turn. You made a good check.”

Zhuta said, “Well, if you had shoved the turn, I call.”

Chino Rheem  –  58,000  (73 bb)
Lumni Zhuta  –  81,000  (101 bb)

At Table 9, with the board showing on the turn, a player in middle position had moved all in for 40,300, and Matthew Zarcadoolas thought for a little while before calling from the cutoff with for a pair of kings.

His opponent turned over , and needed a queen on the river to stay alive.

The river card was the , and Zarcadoolas won the pot with his pair of kings to eliminate his opponent.

Matthew Zarcadoolas  –  140,000  (175 bb)

At Table 10, there was a three-way all-in situation, and if you’re gonna have ace-king against two pairs, it’s a best-case scenario when both of your opponents have each other’s outs with the same pair.

Big Blind:  
Peter Nifakos:  
Small Blind:  

Nifakos was all in for 29,600, and the small blind had a bit less than that, with the big blind covering both of them.

The board came , and Nifakos paired his ace on the flop, leaving his opponents drawing dead to a straight on the board for a chop. But they weren’t that lucky, and Nifakos won the pot with his pair of aces to nearly triple up in chips and eliminate the small blind.

Peter Nifakos  –  85,000  (106 bb)

And now, some updated chip counts from the rest of the field:

Nick Maimone – 276,000  (345 bb)
Chris Hunichen  –  195,000  (244 bb)
Devon Shalmi  –  175,000  (219 bb)
Tim Reilly  –  170,000  (213 bb)
William Tonking  –  130,000  (163 bb)
Tyler Patterson  –  125,000  (156 bb)