Event 9: Kurt Lichtman – 9th Place ($12,264)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 689

Kurt Lichtman

Kurt Lichtman called all in for around 500,000 with 10c10s and was racing against Roberto Bendeck’s QcJc.

The flop came AsQs5d and Bendeck flopped a pair of queens to take the lead.

The board came running eights and Bendeck wound up with two-pair to eliminate Lichtman in ninth place.

Roberto Bendeck – 1,200,000 (20 bb)
Kurt Lichtman – Eliminated in 9th Place ($12,264)

Event 9: Haim Toorgeman – 10th Place ($10,159)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 689

Haim Toorgeman

Haim Toorgeman moved all in for 595,000 from lat position and got called by Richard Alati.

Toorgeman tabled AhQh and was racing against Alati’s 8d8h.

The board ran out Kd10h8s2c9h and Alati flopped a set of eights to eliminate Toorgeman in tenth place.

Richard Alati – 3,700,000 (62 bb)
Haim Toorgemen – Eliminated in 10th Place ($10,159)

Event 9: Richard Alati versus Roberto Bendeck

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 28: 30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 689

Richard Alati
Richard Alati

Richard Alati opened under the gun and Roberto Bendeck three-bet from late position, Alati called.

The flop came 10s5c3c, Altai checked and Bendeck bet 225,000. Alati called.

The turn brought the 3s, Alati checked again and Bendeck bet 325,000. Alati called again.

The river was the Jh, Alati checked and Bendeck snap through his cards into the muck. Alati mucked as well as he raked in the pot.

Richard Alati – 3,050,000 (51 bb)
Roberto Bendeck – 650,000 (11 bb)

Event 9: Final Table

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 689

Here’s a look at how the final ten stack up and what’s at stake:

Seat 1: Roberto Bendeck – 2,100,000 (42 bb)
Seat 2: Philip Pizzari Pinto – 2,190,000 (44 bb)
Seat 3: Ryan Olisar – 2,245,000 (45 bb)
Seat 4: Kurt Lichtman – 850,000 (17 bb)
Seat 5: Judy Miller – 940,000 (19 bb)
Seat 6: Haim Toorgeman – 830,000 (17 bb)
Seat 7: Markus Gonsalves – 2,250,000 (45 bb)
Seat 8: Kyle Carson – 940,000 (19 bb)
Seat 9: Richard Alati – 1,725,000 (35 bb)
Seat 10: Sam Panzica – 4,080,000 (82 bb)

1st: $122,609
2nd: $85,967
3rd: $55,425
4th: $40,695
5th: $31,077
6th: $24,775
7th: $20,518
8th: $16,334
9th: $12,264
10th: $10,159

Event 9: David Mock – 11th Place ($10,159)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27: 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 689

David Mock

David Mock moved all in for around 700,000 with KdJs and got called by Markus Gonsalves’s AhKh.

The board came clean for Gonsalves and Mock became the final table bubble boy.

The final ten players are now redrawing and filling out their bio sheets.

Markus Gonsalves – 2,225,000 (45 bb)
David Mock – Eliminated 

Event 9: James Salmon III – 14th Place ($8,127)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 689

James Salmon III
James Salmon III

Sam Panzica opened to 80,000 from late position, James Salmon shoved for 540,000 from the button and Philipe Pizzari Pinto called from the small blind. Panzica laid it down and it was a race heads up.

Pinto turned over JhJs against Salmon’s KdQd.

The board came Ac8h2dAs4c and Pinto’s pocket jacks held to eliminate Salmon in fourteenth place.

Philipe Pizzari Pinto – 2,300,000 (58 bb)
James Salmon – Eliminated 

Event 9: Joseph Di Rosa Rojas – 16th Place ($8,127)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 15 of 689

Joseph Di Rosa Rojas
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas

Jorge Morales opened from the cutoff and WSOP Bracelet winner Joseph Di Rosa Rojas shoved for around 400,000 from the button.

It was a classic race as Morales tabled 9h9s against Di Rosa Rojas’s AsJd.

The board ran out 5c4sKh8dQs and Morales’s nines held to score the knockout.

Jorge Morales – 1,000,000 (33 bb)
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas – Eliminated 

Event 9: Peter Eichhardt – 17th Place ($6,757)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 16 of 689

Peter Eichhardt
Peter Eichhardt

Haim Toorgeman opened and Peter Eichhardt jammed and Richard Alati called. Toorgeman got out of the way.

It was a cooler situation as Eicghhardt tabled pocket kings against Alati’s pocket aces. Eichhardt couldn’t improve and became the seventeenth place finisher.

Richard Alati – 1,650,000 (55 bb)
Peter Eichhardt – Eliminated in 17th Place ($6,757)

Event 9: Darryll Fish – 18th Place ($6,757)

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 689

Darryll Fish

Darryll Fish moved all in for around 250,000 from middle position. It folded around to chip leader Sam Panzica in the big blind who snap called with AdAc.

Fish tabled QhQs and needed to get lucky.

The board ran out 9d3d3h4d8h and Fish couldn’t catch up as he became the eighteenth place finisher.  He said “Cool.. yay poker” as he collected his payout card.

Sam Panzica – 2,400,000 (80 bb)
Darryll Fish – Eliminated in 18th Place ($6,757)

Event 9: Final Two Tables

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24: 10,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining: 18 of 689

Artem Zverkhovskyy

Here’s a look at the recent eliminations that led to the final eighteen players:

19th: Artem Zverykhovskyy – $5,534
20th: James Sowers – $5,534
21st: Phong Than Nguyen – $5,534
22nd: Ofer Peleg – $4,672
23rd: Alejandro Herrera Gonzalez – $4,672
24th: Engelberth Varela – $4,672
25th: Stuart Greenbaum – $3,936
26th: Michael Dyer – $3,936
27th: Bryce McVay – $3,936