Event 36: Chris Barthel Eliminated by Daniel Levin

$1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $798,310 | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  60 of 823

Daniel Levin

Chris Barthel was all in preflop with AhKh preflop, and Daniel Levin had him covered holding pocket aces.

The final board read 9s8d6d6h6c, and Barthel was eliminated in 61st place for a payout of $2,550. Levin stacked up 710,000 after collecting the pot.

Daniel Levin – 710,000 (71 bb)
Chris Barthel – Eliminated in 61st Place ($2,550)

Event 36: Nick Yunis Makes the Easy Call

$1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $798,310 | Structure | Payouts
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  63 of 823

We were starting to get a little worries when popular pro Nick Yunis did not show up for his Day 2. He was stacked big coming into the restart but he was getting (slowly) blinded down.

We should have checked the Twitters:

Congrats to Nick and the family! We’ll watch your stack for you.

Event 36: Results 73rd Through 105th

$1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $798,310 | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  72 of 823

Ryan Hogan finished in 98th place

73rd: Michael Morton – $2,125
74th: Luis Capella Mila – $2,125
75th: Travis Young – $2,125
76th: Eider Da Cruz – $2,125
77th: Krasimir Yankov – $2,125
78th: Spencer Champlin – $2,125
79th: Alexander Borukhovich – $2,125
80th: Michael Savakinas – $2,125
81st: Bradley Beetz – $2,125

82nd: Fred Paradis – $2,030
83rd: Daniel Chalifour – $2,030
84th: Dyanna Lopez – $2,030
85th: Scott Margereson – $2,030
86th: Daniel Quesada – $2,030
87th: Thomas Laviano – $2,030
88th: Lazaro Rojas – $2,030
89th: Ira Schwartz – $2,030
90th: Radu Roscot – $2,030

91st: Randall Wagnon – $1,940
92nd: Jake Schwartz – $1,940
93rd: Alexandre Sako – $1,940
94th: David DiBernardi – $1,940
95th: Zhou Jiang – $1,940
96th: Stanislav Ivanov – $1,940
97th: Scott Zakheim – $1,940
98th: Ryan Hogan – $1,940
99th: Long Nguyen – $1,940
100th: Dave Alfa – $1,940
101st: Matthew Lambrecht – $1,940
102nd: Joseph Hernon – $1,940
103rd: Haim Toorgeman – $1,940
104th: Leonardo Clavel – $1,940
105th: Wesley Haymond – $1,940

Event 36: Salomon Sutton Continues to Lead After Break

$1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $798,310 | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  75 of 823

Salomon Sutton

Event 36 players were sent on a 15-minute break after Level 17 and our starting Day 2 leader, Salomon Sutton, is still the leader and he added a bit more. He is up to 1,138,000 for the top stack followed by Adam Agaev with 786,000 and Kee Fredkove is up among them with 680,000.

They are now back on the regular break schedule with 40-minute levels until going to 60 in Level 17.

Event 45: Final Table Lineup

$1,100 Limit Omaha 8 (Re-Entry)
Structure | Payouts
Returning to Level 16:  8,000/16,000 Limits
Players Remaining:  9 of 59

The $1,100 Limit Omaha 8 table quickly reached its final table this afternoon with nine players remaining and eight getting paid. It’s a tough lineup with Nicolas Milgrom leading and Yuval Bronshtein looking for his 11th career Hollywood win.

Seat 1: Jim Collopy – 109,000 (7 BB)
Seat 2: Roland Israelashvili – 32,000 (2 BB)
Seat 3: Yuval Bronshtein – 262,000 (16 BB)
Seat 4: Jaeli Morón – 180,000 (11 BB)
Seat 5: David Brookshire – 60,000 (4 BB)
Seat 6: Victor Cianelli – 80,000 (5 BB)
Seat 7: Nicolas Milgrom – 630,000 (39 BB)
Seat 8: Eric Polirer – 170,000 (11 BB)
Seat 9: Chris Vitch – 210,000 (13 BB)

Payouts:

1st: $20,600 + Showdown trophy
2nd: $12,100
3rd: $7,585
4th: $5,150
5th: $4,010
6th: $3,150
7th: $2,575
8th: $2,060

Super High Roller: Big Game Set

$50,000 Super High Roller NLH (Single Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1:  500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante

The biggest buy-in tournament on the Showdown schedule gets underway at 1 pm with the $50,000 Super High Roller. It will be a small but special group of players going for the title.

Players start with 125K stacks and all levels last 40 minutes until going to 60 at the final table. Late registration and a single re-entry is available until the start of Level 10 at 9 pm following the 90-minute dinner break.

  • Players begin with 125,000 in chips
  • Levels last 40 minutes; Final table levels last 60 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 10 (9:00pm)
  • This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
  • Super High Roller Structure Sheet

Event 50: Good Start

$2,200 Deep Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Entries:  62

Brian Altman

The $2,200 Deep Stack is off to a great start with plenty of room to great in the Grand Ballroom.

Some early members include Brian Altman, Joe McKeehe, David Moses Paul Snead, and last night’s $1K Turbo champ Michael Rocco and $10K Heads-Up winner Chance Kornuth.

Michael Rocco

Two Restarts Underway

We had two big tournaments restarting at noon with a lot of money and prestige on the line. In the back of the room, Event 36 is back underway for Day 2 of the $1,100 Triple Stack with 105 players returning and a prize pool of nearly $800,000.

And over on Tables 1 and 2 we have two tables returning for the $1,100 Limit Omaha 8 tournament with 14 players remaining and eight getting paid.

Table 1
Seat 1:  Nicolas Milgrom  –  358,000  (22 BB)
Seat 2:  Jaeli Morón  –  175,000  (11 BB)
Seat 3:  Dominick Sarle  –  21,000  (1 BB)
Seat 4:  Roland Israelashvili  –  93,000  (6 BB)
Seat 5:
Seat 6:  Allen Kessler  –  95,000  (6 BB)
Seat 7:  David Brookshire  –  156,000  (10 BB)
Seat 8:
Seat 9:  Chris Labrie  –  59,000  (4 BB)

Table 2
Seat 1:  Jim Collopy  –  144,000  (9 BB)
Seat 2:  Jon Breneman  –  39,000  (2 BB)
Seat 3:  Jason Papastavrou  –  54,000  (3 BB)
Seat 4:
Seat 5:  Yuval Bronshtein  –  274,000  (17 BB)
Seat 6:  Victor Cianelli  –  86,000  (5 BB)
Seat 7:  Chris Vitch  –  193,000  (12 BB)
Seat 8:
Seat 9:  Eric Polirer  –  24,000  (2 BB)

Event 51: Second H.O.R.S.E.

$1,100 H.O.R.S.E. (Re-Entry)
Structure
Level 1:  300/600 Limits

H.O.R.S.E. tournaments are one of our most popular mix events and we put two of them on the Showdown schedule. The second one gets underway at noon with a $1,100 buy-in and two-day structure.

Players start with 30K in their stacks and all levels last 40 minutes. Late registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 10 at 7:30 pm following the 60-minute dinner break.

The tournament will play through Level 15 and survivors at that point will bag up for a Day 2 return tomorrow at noon.

  • Players begin with 30,000 in chips
  • Levels last 40 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Level 10 (7:30pm)
  • Day 1 will end after Level 15
  • Event 51 Structure Sheet