Avery Bloom was already all in from the small blind by the river of a board with a side pot between Nicolas Milgrom in the big blind and Scott Matejka on the button.
Milgrom showed for a set of queens, while Matejka tabled for an ace-high straight for the nuts.
Bloom couldn’t beat it and was out in fifth place.
Scott Matejka – 690,000 (14 big bets) Avery Bloom – Eliminated in 5th Place ($3,265)
With most of his stack already committed prior to the turn of the board, Matthew Zazaian committed his remaining chips with against Nicolas Milgrom in the big blind who had for an eight-high straight with a 7-6 low.
The river was no help to Zazaian, ending his tournament in eighth place.
Nicolas Milgrom – 370,000 (9 big bets) Matthew Zazaian – Eliminated in 8th Place ($1,980)
Seat 1: Gabe Ramos – 46,000 (1 big bet) Seat 2: Scott Matejka – 320,000 (10 big bets) Seat 3: Avery Bloom – 350,000 (11 big bets) Seat 4: Matthew Zazaian – 155,000 (5 big bets) Seat 5: Phil Hui – 170,000 (5 big bets) Seat 6: Nicolas Milgrom – 155,000 (5 big bets) Seat 7: Mike Hugenot – 175,000 (5 big bets) Seat 8: Michael Rosenberg – 160,000 (5 big bets) Seat 9: Danny Chang – 165,000 (5 big bets)
$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Flight B Entries: 611
Flight B of Event 15 drew 611 entries, making it a total of 1,191 entries through two flights. The $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool should be met tomorrow.
Tonight’s action will continue until only 77 players remain. Players must bag a stack in order to make the money and advance to Day 2, which is Sunday at 1 p.m.
$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 8: 400/800 with a 800 ante Flight B Entries: 587
Anton Kutsenko (left) and Jackson Martin
This is an unusual tale of a man who may or may not be a Russian actor, but he is certainly entertaining a couple of players at his table.
First, Jackson Martin is in seat 2, and gets it all in from the cutoff for 10,300 with , and he needs his aces to hold to stay alive against the big blind’s .
The board came — the big blind paired his queen on the flop and turned an open-ended straight draw, but the aces held up for Martin to win the pot and double up in chips.
Jackson Martin – 21,800 (27 bb)
After the hand, the player in seat 1, Anton Kutsenko, loudly proclaimed himself (in a thick Russian accent) to be Anton Kutsenko, a famous Russian actor. But instead of listing IMDB-style credits (IMDB shows a 2007 film and a 2012 film with Anton Kutsenko), he described it like he was starring in poker hands.
Perhaps in the style of Troy McClure (from “The Simpsons”), he’d say, “Hi! I’m Anton Kutsenko. You might know me from roles such as The Button and The Big Blind.”
Then Kutsenko proceeded to describe a hand between himself and Jackson Martin when he woke up with pocket aces in the small blind. He completed the small blind, Martin raised from the big blind, and Kutsenko called.
But he didn’t just describe the betting, he put out chips from his own stack as if he were re-enacting the hand, then pulled chips from Martin’s stack to indicate his raise. Martin laughed and said, “Dude, you can’t touch my chips!” So Kutsenko told the rest of the tale without the visual aid of actual chips.
Martin was laughing at most of Kutsenko’s story, at one point saying that no part of it is true. So this hand may or may not have happened at all.
Kutsenko claims to have limp-called with his aces from the small blind, and then described himself check-calling on all three streets of a board that came . He then said Martin had ace-king, and that’s how Kutsenko wound up with 39,000 in chips and Martin was down to the 10,300 he had in the (real) poker hand written at the top of this post.
So if you ever have a chance to see a film starring Anton Kutsenko, give it a glance, because this guy is a trip.
Anton Kutsenko – 39,000 (49 bb)
Flight B is up to 602 entries (1,182 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $620,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.
$600 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 6: 300/500 with a 500 ante Flight B Entries: 549
Sheldon Gross
After a flop of , Sheldon Gross bet 5,000 from the big blind, and Chris Perry called from middle position.
The turn card was the , Gross bet 5,000, and Perry called.
The river card paired the board with the , Gross bet 10,000, Perry moved all in, and Gross called.
Perry showed for a full house, kings full of aces, but Gross turned over for a higher full house, aces full of tens to eliminate Perry.
Sheldon Gross – 70,000 (140 bb)
Flight B is up to 549 entries (1,129 overall), and the prizepool is already worth more than $592,000 on its way to the $1 million guarantee.
Registration remains open with a single re-entry option until 10:30 pm. There will be two more starting flights tomorrow (10:00 am and 6:00 pm), with the same schedule on Saturday. Day 2 begins on Sunday at 1:00 pm.
board with a side pot between Nicolas Milgrom in the big blind and Scott Matejka on the button.
for a set of queens, while Matejka tabled 
for an ace-high straight for the nuts.
, giving Bloom an ace-high straight on the river to eliminate Hui in seventh place.
board, Matthew Zazaian committed his remaining chips with 
against Nicolas Milgrom in the big blind who had 
and after a series of bets and raises, Ramos was all in for 105,000.
turn and 
— the big blind paired his queen on the flop and turned an open-ended straight draw, but the aces held up for Martin to win the pot and double up in chips.