Event 5: Lester Trimino Leads at Second Break

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 301

Lester Trimino

After the long long bubble time, the players needed the second break and tournament staff used the time to pull the 1K chips out of play.

Lester Trimino leads the field as the only player over one million with Adi Ben Ami and William Kopp not far behind.

They redrew seats at the last three tables when they returned.

Lester Trimino – 1,050,000 (105 bb)
Adi Ben Ami – 950,000 (95 bb)
William Kopp – 935,000 (94 bb)
Dimitry Agrachov – 760,000 (76 bb)
TK Miles – 745,000 (75 bb)
Julio Delgado – 730,000 (73 bb)
Evgeny Kharchenko – 670,000 (67 bb)
Michael Newman – 630,000 (63 bb)
Jorge Confesor – 610,000 (61 bb)

Event 5: Results 28th Through 38th

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 19:  5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante
Players Remaining:  27 of 301

Frankl Russo finished in 29th place

As players were going on their second break, Steven Karp was eliminated in 28th place. When players return, they will redraw seats at the last three tables.

28th: Steven Karp – $1,040
29th: Frank Russo – $1,040
30th: Joseph Duchman – $1,040
31st: Jose Chapui – $1,040
32nd: Brett Bader – $1,040
33rd: David O’Connor – $1,040
34th: Engelberth Varela – $1,040
35th: Alex Borukhovich – $1,040
36th: Tarun Gulati – $1,040
37th: Richard Whitebrook – $1,040
38th: Mike Amato – $1,040

Joseph Duchman finished in 30th place
Tarun Gulati finished in 36th place

Event 5: Matt Lambrecht Eliminated by Adi Ben Ami on the Money Bubble

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  37 of 301

Matt Lambrecht

After a marathon bubble and the 17th round of hand-for-hand, we had another all-in called.

We caught the three-way action with the flop reading Ts9s3c and Matt Lambrecht all-in for what looked to be about 80,000. Ben Mosche and Adi Ben Ami checked the 8s turn and Mosche checked the 8c river.

Ben Ami bet 125,000 and Mosche thought for a minute before he flashed the Js and mucked.

Ben Ami: QhJd
Lambrecht: KsKd

Lambrecht had a monster but Ben Ami made a queen-high straight to take the pot and burst the bubble.

Adi Ben Ami – 925,000 (116 bb)
Matt Lambrecht  –  Eliminated

To make things interesting, both Steven Karp and Mike Amato were set to be forced all-in on the next hand with short stacks in the big blind. Both survived and Karp is still going.

Event 5: Kyle Sullivan Doubles Through Abi Ben Ami

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  38 of 301

Kyle Sullivan

After ten rounds of hand-for-hand action, we had our first all-in called. Kyle Sullivan was all in for 92,000 and Adi Ben Ami had him covered.

Sullivan: 4c4d
Ben Ami: Kc6c

Not a standard race but a flip nonetheless. Sullivan needed his fours to hold and he faded the 9h5s2d3c8c board to double on the bubble.

Kyle Sullivan – 204,000 (34 bb)
Adi Ben Ami – 850,000 (142 bb)

Event 5: Money Bubble Time

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  38 of 301

Tournament staff put Event 5 into hand-for-hand mode on the money bubble. They will take two minutes off the clock for every hand played until (at least) one player is eliminated to put the field in the money.

1st: $34,000 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $22,600
3rd: $16,800
4th: $12,500
5th: $9,500
6th: $7,200
7th: $5,600
8th: $4,320
9th-10th: $3,380
11th-12th: $2,340
13th-15th: $1,920
16th-19th: $1,560
20th-23rd: $1,240
24th-38th: $1,040

Event 5: Al Norman Eliminated by Mike Chiappetta

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  38 of 301

Al Norman

With 40 players remaining and 38 getting paid, Al Norman was all in for 92,000 and Mike Chiappetta had him at risk.

Chiappetta: 9s9h
Norman: AcQc

It was a race and Norman needed to improve to stay in the game. The board ran out KhTh3c3d8s and no help for Norman.

Tournament staff paused the clock to begin hand-for-hand play on the bubble.

Mike Chiappetta – 490,000 (82 bb)
Al Norman  –  Eliminated

Event 5: TJ Shulman Gets Aces Cracked; Eliminated by Joseph Duchman

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em
$150,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 17:  3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining:  42 of 301

TJ Shulman

After a series of raises, TJ Shulman was all in and at risk from the small blind against Joseph Duchman who had a slightly bigger stack.

Shulman: AsAc
Duchman: QsQh

Shulman was in great shape to pull a big pot but Duchman caught a queen on the Qc8h4d flop. Neither the 5c turn nor the 3s river could return the two-out favor for Shulman, and he was eliminated near the money bubble.

Joseph Duchman – 320,000 (53 bb)
TJ Shulman  –  Eliminated

Joseph Duchman