Event 9: Dinner Break

$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: 19 of 689

Sam Panzica
Sam Panzica leads at dinner break

The remaining nineteen players are currently on a forty minute dinner break.

Here’s how they stack up:

Sam Panzica – 1,720,000
Phillipe Pinto – 1,470,000
Roberto Bendeck – 1,425,000
Warren Sheaves 1,205,000
David Mock – 1,200,000
Ryan Olisar – 1,125,000
Richard Alati – 1,000,000
Kurt Lichtman – 950,000
Haim Toorgeman – 920,000
Artem Zverkhovskyy – 900,000
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas – 615,000
Jorge Morales – 520,000
Peter Eichhardt – 450,000
Darryll Fish – 400,000
Kyle Carson – 400,000

Event 9: Phong Tran Nguyen – 24th Place $4,672

$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: 23 of 689

Artem Zverkhovskyy

Phong Than Nguyen moved all in for his last ten blinds with As9h and needed to improve against Artem Zverkhovskyy’s QcQs.

The flop came nine high giving Nguyen some hope, but the rest of the board was bricks and Nguyen became the 24th place finisher. Zverkhovskyy is currently among the chip leaders.

Artem Zverkhovskyy – 1,450,000 (58 bb)
Phong Tran Nguyen – Eliminated

Event 9: Darryll Fish Scores a Double

$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: 24 of 689

Darryll Fish

Darryll Fish is all in from late position for his last 90,000. His opponent called from the blind.

Fish turned over Jh8h and needed to get lucky against his opponent’s KcQc.

The flop came Ah10h4s giving Fish a flush draw. The 7h came on the turn completing his flush. He jokingly called for a straight flush as the 9s hit the river.

Fish said “Step one” as he raked in the pot.

Darryll Fish – 220,000 (9 bb)

Event 9: Engelberth Varela Eliminated by Judy Miller

$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: 24 of 689

Judy Miller
Judy Miller

Judy Miller opened to 65,000 from early position and Engelberth Varela shoved for around 400,000 from middle position. It folded around to Miller who snap called with AdAh.

Varela tabled AsKh and needed to improve to stay alive.

The board ran out 9s7c6s2d10c and Miller’s aces held to eliminate Varela.

Judy Miller – 1,200,000 (48 bb)
Engelberth Varela – Eliminated 

Event 9: Stuart Greenbaum Eliminated

$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: 25 of 689

Stuart Greenbaum
Stuart Greenbaum

A player under the gun opened and Stuart Greenbaum shoved for around 300,000. His opponent called.

Greenbaum tabled KsQs and needed to get lucky against his opponent’s AsKc.

The board came Jh10s2c10c2d and Greenbaum’s king high fell short to his opponent’s ace high.

Stuart Greenbaum – Eliminated

Event 9: Recent Eliminations

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 27 of 689

Mike Wang
Mike Wang

Here’s a look at the eliminations to get the field down to the final three tables:

28th: Philip Rigby – $3,208
29th: Bruno Quinn – $3,208
30th: Mike Wang – $3,208
31st: Justin Carey – $3,208
32nd: Jonah Miller – $3,208
33rd: Jose Reyes – $3,208

Event 9: Final Three Tables

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 27 of 689

The final twenty players are currently redrawing, here’s  a quick look at some counts:

Sam Panzica – 1,250,000
Ryan Olisar – 1,200,000
Judy Miller – 860,000
Michael Dyer – 800,000
Warren Sheaves – 635,000
Patrick Clarke – 625,000
Peter Eichhardt – 500,000
Stuart Greenbaum – 500,000
Darryll Fish – 300,000
Ofer Peleg – 225,000
Phong Than Nguyen – 220,000

Event 9: Ofer Peleg Lays it Down

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining: 28 of 689

Ofer Peleg

Ryan Olisar opened to 35,000 and the start of day chip leader Ofer Peleg three-bet to 110,000 from the small blind.

Olisar jammed for around 750,000 having Peleg covered. Peleg went into the tank and eventually decided to fold AcKs face up.

Olisar grinned and said “We were flipping, I had jacks”.

Peleg said “It’s for all my chips, you know how many times I lose with acc king? Nothing comes”

Ryan Olisar – 910,000 (46 bb)
Ofer Peleg – 580,000 (29 bb)

Event 9: Final Four Tables

$1,100 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$250,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante
Players Remaining: 33 of 689

Kyle Cartwright
Kyle Cartwright

Here’s a look at the payout results from 45th place to 34th place.

34th: William Mical – $3,208
35th: John Despersio – $3,208
36th: Ido Ashkenazi – $3,208
37th: Ory Hen – $2,827
38th: Nancy Birnbaum – $2,827
39th: Eric Baldwin – $2,827
40th: David Baker – $2,827
41st: Kyle Cartwright – $2,827
42nd: Wally Maddah – $2,827
43rd: Eli Levy – $2,827
44th: Aaron Klausman – $2,827
45th: Richard Leger – $2,827

Wally Maddah