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Level 20:  Blinds 5,000/10,000/1,000 ante

We are now down to 40 players and some of them are starting to cross the 1 million chip barrier.

Mohammed Jaafar is currently around 1.2 million, Faraz Jaka stands at 1.1 million and Jonathan Borenstein is just over 1 million with other players closing in fast on that magic number.  Play rolls on here in our Main Event for about 35 mintues before play ends tonight.

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Level 19:  Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante

As expected, mayhem has broken out in the Main Event after the bubble.  Fourteen players have already fallen and the event went from eight tables to six in swift fashion.

As the short stacks filter out, the players can start to think about that massive $480,200 payday for our champion as 49 grinders now remain alive.

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Level 19:  Blinds 4,000/8,000/1,000 ante

The slow trek to the money continues and the field has now gone 10 times around hand-for-hand action with only one player in real danger.

On the 9th hand, it was Bob Bounahra all-in for his final 64,000 and Matt Glantz called. They held the action until the rest of the hands were complete and they saw where they were.

Bounahra was far ahead against the of Glantz. He had a little sweat when Glantz got a piece of the flop but his double came when the board completed to move them into the 10th hand.

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Level 18:  Blinds 3,000/6,000/1,000 ante

With just a few minutes left in Level 18, one of the last two ladies remaining has fallen.

Extremely short stacked, Nancy Birnbaum went all in and faced off with Jamie Rosen.

Birnbaum:
Rosen:

Birnbaum, behind and dominated, got no help as the board ran out and was eliminated. Her elimination leaves Angel Vu as the last woman standing and the rest of the field on the bubble going hand for hand as we head to break with 64 players remaining.

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Level 18:  Blinds 3,000/6,000/1,000 ante

Angel Vu was riding the short stack since dinner and dropped down under five big blinds. She tried to get some action but was unable to find anyone to give her the courtesy double up though she stacked up enough in blind/antes to give her a shot

When she did get a chance for the double, it was against an opponent actually holding less. She called a 49,000 shove from the small blind but Elliott Zaydman was not tricked in the big blind. Vu was ahead with against and pulled the pot when the board ran clean to give her a little more room to move.

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Level 18:  Blinds 3k/6k/1k ante

Tristan Wade (bb) and Jared Jaffee (hijack) took a flop of .  Tristan checked, Jared bet 18k, Tristan kicked it up to 55k, Jared gave it some thought, then jammed.  Tristan snap-called all-in for 164,500 straight.

Jared rolled over for top/top, then groaned when he saw Tristan’s hand: for two pair.

The dealer burned and turned the , which changed nothing.  The river washed up the pairing the board, but leaving Tristan’s two pair the best.  He doubled up to about 380k.  Jared’s stack dropped to about 170k.

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Level 18:  Blinds 3k/6k/1k ante

David Levi got all-in holding and ran into Donald Francois’ .   The board was insufficient to help David as it reeled out .  David exited in 69th place, leaving the field just five spots from the dough.

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Level 30:  Blinds 40,000/80,000/10,000 ante

Brian Morgan put up a spirited fight but this one belonged to Nick Pupillo.

Pupillo, the overwhelming chip leader going into heads-up, pulled out every trick in the book including trying to eliminate Morgan on a play with 7-2 and then finally closed the door.

The final hand saw Morgan give it a shot with and Pupillo holding .  Morgan picked up a gutshot with the flop to add to his outs but the board ran out and ended the tournament.

Nick Pupillo takes down the title and $7,978 while Brian Morgan scores $4,559 for his runner-up finish.

Congratulations to our Event 17 Champion – Nick Pupillo!

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Level 17:  Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante

Players are in no hurry to put their chips at risk so close to the bubble, a change from normal post-dinner activity. Keven Stammen made a small error and it cost him a lot of his stack.

Already short after dinner, Stammen moved in for less than a min-raise over a pre-flop open, but his opponent lost track of the action and didn’t realize action was on him.

Thinking the player called, Stammen prematurely tabled and the floor was called. The other gentleman let his hand go despite the low cost and showed while staff gave Stammen a one orbit penalty.

He joked with the rest of the field but came back to an even smaller stack. Stammen tried for a double several times but it was Angel Vu who finally looked him up from the big blind with . The WSOP and WPT winner needed help with but was left drawing thin after the flop.

The turn left him pulling for a Queen but blanked the river to go out just short of the money.