$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 76

Sachi Botner is all in with , and she needs to improve to stay alive against the of Elanit Hasas.

The board came , and the pocket nines held up for Hasas to win the pot and eliminate Botner in fourth place.

Elanit Hasas  –  365,000  (30 bb)
Sachi Botner  –  Eliminated in 4th Place  ($1,317)

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Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 76

Susanna Haedelt moved all in from the button for 96,000, and M.G. Fernandez called from the big blind with . Haedelt turned over , and was dominated as she faced elimination.

The board came , and Haedelt paired her three on the turn to win the pot and double up in chips, knocking Fernandez down to barely more than one big blind.

Susanna Haedelt  –  210,000  (18 bb)
M.G. Fernandez  –  15,000  (1 bb)

The next hand, Haedelt limped from the cutoff for 12,000, Elanit Hasas limped from the button, and Fernandez moved all in from the small blind for 15,000. Suscia Bathgate called from the big blind, and Haedelt and Hasas both called as well.

Bathgate, Haedelt, and Hasas checked all the way down on a board of , and all four players turned over their cards.

Suscia Bathgate:    (six-high straight)
Susanna Haedelt:    (two pair, jacks and fives)
Elanit Hasas:    (ace high)
M.G. Fernandez:    (king high)

Bathgate won the pot to increase her chip lead and eliminate Fernandez in fifth place.

Suscia Bathgate  –  590,000  (49 bb)
M.G. Fernandez  –  Eliminated in 5th Place  ($998)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 76

Suscia Bathgate raised from the button to 35,000, Sachi Botner moved all in from the small blind for about 330,000, and Bathgate tanked for a while before calling all in for 258,000 with .

Botner turned over , and Bathgate needed her hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket queens held up for Bathgate to win the pot and double up in chips.

Suscia Bathgate  –  540,000  (45 bb)
Sachi Botner  –  70,000  (6 bb)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 76

Elanit Hasas moved all in from the small blind for 143,000, and Joanne Milburn called from the big blind with . Hasas turned over , and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Hasas paired her nine on the flop to win the pot and double up in chips.

Elanit Hasas  –  298,000  (25 bb)
Joanne Milburn  –  35,000  (3 bb)

A few hands later, Milburn was all in preflop from the cutoff with , and she needed her hand to hold to stay alive against Sachi Botner’s in the big blind.

The board came , and Botner paired her seven on the turn to win the pot and eliminate Milburn in sixth place.

Sachi Botner  –  330,000  (28 bb)
Joanne Milburn  –  Eliminated in 6th Place  ($798)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 76

With the board showing on the turn and a little more than 90K already in the pot, Sachi Botner moved all in from the big blind, and Sherriee Williams tanked for a while before she called from the cutoff.

“I’m on a draw,” said Williams, as she turned over for a spade-flush draw. Botner turned over for two pair, tens and deuces, and Williams needed an ace or a spade on the river to stay alive.

The river card was the , and Botner won the pot with her two pair to eliminate Williams in seventh place.

Sachi Botner  –  325,000  (33 bb)
Sherriee Williams  –  Eliminated in 7th Place  ($718)

After the hand, M.G. Fernandez called Botner “Miss Ten,” because tens have been good to her today. Botner appeared to accept the nickname, saying, “Well, it is my favorite number. So if there’s a ten out there, just assume I have a ten.”

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 76

Sachi Botner min-raised from the hijack to 16,000, Lauren Failla moved all in from the button for 42,000, and Botner called with .

Failla turned over , and she needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Botner won the pot with two pair, tens and fives, to eliminate Failla in eighth place.

Sachi Botner  –  225,000  (28 bb)
Lauren Failla  –  Eliminated in 8th Place  ($638)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 76

In addition to the “natural” prizepool of $15,960 for this event (listed below), the winner will also receive a seat into the $1,100 main event, along with a prize package from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City that includes a two-night hotel stay, a $200 dining credit for one of their gourmet restaurants, and a $200 credit to the Rock Spa.

1st:  $5,394 + Prize Package
2nd:  $3,112
3rd:  $1,947
4th:  $1,317
5th:  $998
6th:  $798
7th:  $718
8th:  $638
9th:  Patricia Conrad  –  $559
10th:  Lenor Ryan  –  $479

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 76

In the last hand before the break, with the blinds at 3,000-6,000, Patricia Conrad moved all in from the small blind for 93,000, and Joanne Milburn thought for a while before she called all in for 92,000 with .

Conrad turned over , and whoever lost this pot would either be eliminated or down to 1K.

The board came , and Milburn spiked a five on the river to win the pot with a full house, fives full of jacks. Conrad suffered the bad beat to be knocked all the way down to a single 1K chip with the blinds increasing to 4,000-8,000.

Joanne Milburn  –  190,000  (24 bb)
Patricia Conrad  –  1,000 (0.13 bb)

The (tiny) silver lining for Conrad is that she would now be on the button for the next hand, and wouldn’t be forced all in for another seven hands.

Three hands later, Conrad called all in from the hijack for 1,000, and M.G. Fernandez moved all in over the top from the small blind for about 75,000 with .

Conrad turned over , and she needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Fernandez paired her ace on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Conrad in ninth place.

M.G. Fernandez  –  85,000  (11 bb)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 16: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 76

Lenor Ryan moved all in from the hijack for 26,000, and Susanna Haedelt called from the cutoff with . Ryan turned over , and needed her hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , Haedelt paired her king on the turn to win the pot and eliminate Ryan in 10th place.

Susanna Haedelt  –  157,000  (26 bb)
Lenor Ryan  –  Eliminated in 10th Place  ($479)

$250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$10,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 3,000/5,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 76

The $250 Ladies No Limit Hold’em is down to the final 10 players, and they just redrew for random seats at the final table. Here are their chip counts:

Seat 1.  Suscia Bathgate  –  105,000  (21 bb)
Seat 2.  Sachi Botner  –  233,000  (47 bb)
Seat 3.  Lenor Ryan  –  41,000  (8 bb)
Seat 4.  Susanna Haedelt  –  134,000  (27 bb)
Seat 5.  Lauren Failla  –  125,000  (25 bb)
Seat 6.  Elanit Hasas  –  124,000  (25 bb)
Seat 7.  Patricia Conrad  –  103,000  (21 bb)
Seat 8.  Joanne Milburn  –  79,000  (16 bb)
Seat 9.  Sherriee Williams  –  100,000  (20 bb)
Seat 10.  M.G. Fernandez  –  134,000  (27 bb)

And here’s the prizepool they’re playing for:

1st:  $5,394 + Main Event seat and Hard Rock AC package
2nd:  $3,112
3rd:  $1,947
4th:  $1,317
5th:  $998
6th:  $798
7th:  $718
8th:  $638
9th:  $559
10th:  $479