Event 12: Joseph Cappello – 3rd Place ($13,900)

$1,650 No Limit Hold’em Purple Chip Bounty
Level 23: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Remaining Players: 3 of 139
Average Stack: 556,000 (46 big blinds)

Joseph Cappello
Joseph Cappello

Joseph Cappello moved all in for 172,000 from the button, and both Joshua Beckley (small blind) and Andre Crooks (big blind) called to put him at risk. “Wow, you guys really want my bounty, huh?” Cappello joked.

The two live players checked through the turn of the KsQh6dTc board, and the river was the 7h. Beckley led out with a big, two-fisted bet, and Crooks folded to let him see a heads-up showdown.

Cappello: 9s9d (pair of nines)
Beckley: ThTd (set of tens)

Beckley was ahead the whole way, and his set of tens was enough to claim the tournament’s penultimate bounty. Cappello was eliminated in third place.

Joshua Beckley – 945,000 (79 bb)
Andre Crooks – 725,000 (60 bb)
Joseph Cappello – Eliminated