Event 9: Final Table Begins

$570 No Limit Hold’em Double Black Chip Bounty (Single Re-Entry)
Level 19: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

With 11 players remaining, Natasha Barbour (small blind) and Will Failla (UTG) got it all in after a flop of 10c6h3h. Barbour had 3s3c for a set of threes, but Failla turned over 6s6d for a set of sixes.

The turn was the 8h, the river was the Ad, and Failla won the pot with his set of sixes to double thru Barbour.

Will Failla  –  460,000  (76 bb)
Natasha Barbour  –  75,000  (12 bb)

A short while later, at the other table, Gus Maestrales moved all in from the cutoff for 40,000, and Ido Ashkenazi called from the big blind with 3h3d. Maestrales turned over As10c, and he needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came Jd9s5d7s4c, and the pocket threes held up for Ashkenazi to win the pot and eliminate Maestrales in 11th place.

Ido Ashkenazi  –  135,000  (22 bb)
Gus Maestrales  –  Eliminated in 11th Place  ($786)

The remaining ten players redrew for random seats at the final table, and these were their approximate chip counts:

Seat 1.  Eric Ward  –  120,000  (20 bb)
Seat 2.  Will Failla  –  455,000  (75 bb)
Seat 3.  Greg Marcus  –  95,000  (15 bb)
Seat 4.  Natasha Barbour  –  100,000  (16 bb)
Seat 5.  Blair Miller  –  105,000  (17 bb)
Seat 6.  Arkadiy Tsinis  –  75,000  (12 bb)
Seat 7.  Nissim Vaknin  –  210,000  (35 bb)
Seat 8.  John Merchant  –  260,000  (43 bb)
Seat 9.  Ido Ashkenazi  –  135,000  (22 bb)
Seat 10.  Marcus Stein  –  165,000  (27 bb)

Action is scheduled to continue tonight until a winner is reached.