$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

We are done for the day in Day 1C of Event 10 and 30 of the original 194 will live to fight another day. This gives us a total of 100 players that will be returning on Sunday at 1 p.m. thus far – that is out of the 594 paid entrants thus far. Ralph Campbell accumulated the most chips in Friday’s evening session with 398K in chips. This is good enough to put him in 2nd place overall behind the 488K of Marvin Young. Finishing 2nd in chips for Day 1C was Jose Delcid with 244K and rounding out the top 3 was Justin Rader with 213K.

The top in chips after the first three flights are as follows:

Full Chip Counts

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 1K/2K Ante 300

The players are on their last break of the day. 51 players remain with one hour of play left. The biggest stack in the room at the moment has approximately 175K.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 800/1.6K Ante 200

We have just started Level 12 and there are 63 players remaining. They will be taking a break at the end of this level.

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$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 500/1K Ante 100

There was a limper for 1K and the player in Seat 7 made it 3.2K to go. Seat 2 was on the button and made it 9K to go. The original limper folded and Seat 7 made the call. The flop came and Seat 7 checked. He had 19.1K behind. Seat 2 said “I’m all in” and Seat 7 couldn’t beat him into the pot any faster as he had pocket Kings. Seat 2 could only shake his head as he turned over Queens and acknowledged his opponents tricky play by saying “nice play”.

Aces were all in at two separate tables. At the first one, they held up against 7-6 suited on a 9-6-2-8 board when the river was another 2. The other pair of Aces was not as fortunate as they got it all on a Q-T-2-J board and were behind the Q-J his opponent held. An ace, ten, or two would have saved him but it was a 6 and the two pair was good enough to eliminate the player with Aces.

There are 72 players remaining as we approach the end of Level 10.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 200/400 Ante 50

Players are on their 2nd break of the evening, a 15 minute color up the green chip break. We’re starting to see eliminations happen quickly now – there are 95 players remaining out of the original 194. Some of the more recent hands:

–Queens losing to Kings, player with Queens eliminated.

–A-J against to double up.

–Pocket 8’s against Kings and 9-8 suited on a flop. Turn and river were and the set wins a monster pot to chip up to approximately 130K, which is probably good for the chip lead of Day 1C at this point.

And last but not least, on the final hand before break. A woman and her foe got it all in on a 9-9-7-J board. The woman had for trips and a gutshot straight draw. Her opponent had T-9 for trips with a bigger kicker. There were still plenty of ways for her to stay alive as any 7, jack, queen, king, or ace would mean a chopped pot and a 8 would give her the pot. The river would give her a straight as it was a ten but that also improved her opponent’s hand to a full house. “It’s been fun guys,” she said as she stood up, a smile on her face. A slight shrug to go with her grin as if to say “what are you going to do?” Sometimes it’s just not in the cards. There’s always tomorrow fortunately.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 300/600 Ante 75

Everyone is upstairs now – 117 players remain out of the original 194. It’s that point of the tournament where you are looking to build a stack. One player recently doubled up when he bet 2.5K on a ten high flop and received a caller from the young lady to his immediate left. The turn was a low card and this time he bet 5K. She again called. The river paired 4’s and with only 6K left, all the guy could do was shrug, look at his chips and say “I’m all in”. He received a call and turned over Jacks. She flashed a ten – top pair was no good in this instance.

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 200/400 Ante 50

There were 194 entrants for this third flight of Event 10. 144 players remain. Here are some random photos from around the tournament:

$300 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack

Blinds 75/150

An hour ago there were 69 entrants. That number is now up to 155 and there is a line of alternates waiting to get in. With 10 minutes left in Level 3, players have approximately 55 minutes before registration closes.