Championship: John Barr Knocks Out a Player

$3,500 WPT LHPO Championship
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16:  3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining:  248 of 1,573

John Barr
John Barr

With the board showing Qc4h4d7h on the turn, the UTG+1 player checked, John Barr moved all in from the hijack, and the UTG+1 player thought for a while before he called with 9h9d.

Barr turned over AdAc, and the UTG+1 player needed to improve to stay alive.

The river card was the 2s, and the pocket aces held up for Barr to win the pot and eliminate his opponent from the tournament.

John Barr  –  392,000  (78 bb)


With 248 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 254,000 (51 big blinds), and the final 197 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $6,150 each.

There will be a 90-minute dinner break after Level 17 (about 6:45 pm), and action is scheduled to continue tonight until the end of Level 21, around 12:30 am.