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Level 16: Limits 3k/6k (26:17 remaining)
Day 1 is done and the final eight are in the money. They’ve bagged up for the night and will return at 1pm Sunday for the finale. Here’s the lineup with chip counts:
Seat. Player Chips
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Level 16: Limits 3k/6k (26:17 remaining)
Playing Stud Hi/Lo:
Tom Nasuti got his last chip in on 7th street showing Q J 2 2 and was called by both Richard Shtrax and Nancy Cope.
Nancy made a flush and beat Tom’s Kings-up. (Richard missed his draws.)
Nancy scooped the final pot of the night and Tom was busted on the bubble in 9th place.
The final eight are bagging their chips and the chip counts will be posted shortly.
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Level 15: Limits 2,500/5,000
They’ve reached the money bubble with nine players remaining. Here’s the lineup at the final table:
Peter Walsworth is still the chip leader and he’s approaching 200k.
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Level 14: Limits 2k/4k
Michael Ortiz has busted out. They’re down to 13 HORSEs remaining in this race. Average stack is 57k.
The two biggest stacks belong to Peter Walsworth (~135k) and Jack Deutsch (~125k).
Still a ways to go to reach the money, which goes to the final 8.
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Level 13: Limits 1500/3000
Kevin ‘KevMath’ Mathers got his chips all-in on a hand for Razz. By sixth street, he was showing A 2 4 5 5 K for a King-low against Jack ‘Team Snake’ Deutsch’s A 3 3 8 9 J for a Jack-low.
The river brought Kevin a Ten, giving him the best low by a pip, but Jack drew a 6 giving him a 9-low and the pot. Kevin was put to pasture holding while Jack chipped up to about 85k.
Eighteen players remain and only eight get paid, so there’s still a long way to go.
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Level 13: 1500/3000 Limits
Here are the updated chip counts with 20 players remaining:
Table 65:
Noah Maciag – 48,300
John Womack – 27,400
Matthew Fasnacht – 10,700
John Holley – 21,300
Stephen Novak – 17,500
Nancy Cope – 67,100
Peter Walsworth – 51,000
Table 66:
Anita Pearl – 72,200
John Binns – 14,000
Grady Yeager Jr. – 36,700
Thomas Nasatu – 49,200
Bryan Scofield – 17,200
Richard Shtrax – 50,400
Table 73:
Jack Deutsch – 86,000
Kevin Mathers – 7,900
Nicholas Kost – 21,900
Faith Klimzack – 51,400
Jason Unrath – 22,000
Michael Ortiz – 18,900
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Level 12: 1200/2400 Limits
Earlier we had mention a player chasing a draw and building the action. As it turned out, she may have been actually trying to get knocked out of the tournament and it showed on this hand.
Hold pocket 9’s, she showed her cards prematurely but managed to win the hand and still hold around 4-5 bets. The floor was called the the tournament director had no choice but to issue a one-round penalty which equated to about six hands. After leaving the room angrily and the table shaking their heads in disbelief, she came back and asked the TD if she could forfeit her stack because she wanted to get into Flight 1F of Event 8. He told her she could leave and be anted and blinded out so off she went.
Play continued on Table 66 with an empty seat and people asking to hop in and play the vacated stack.
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Level 12: 1200/2400 Limits
After some initial confusion on betting with two players all-in, action continued with three other players in the pot playing Stud Hi-Lo.
After all the cards were dealt, Nancy Cope turned over 7’s and 3’s which would not seem to be a hand to win a five-way Stud Hi-Lo hand. But as the rest of the players turned their cards up, three players showed missed draws include one player who had been dealt a wheel draw on the first four cards and got all paint the rest of the way.
So Cope not only takes the high but scoops the pot and eliminates two more players taking us down to 25 players remaining.
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Level 11: 1000/2000 Limits
For anyone that plays split pot games, keeping your cool isn’t easy when someone is chasing a hand and helping to drive up a pot. This Stud Hi/Lo hand was no exception as Grady Yeager, Jr. was driving the action with kings showing while a second opponent and Anita Pearl were after a low. Pearl with 2-5-7-8 showing was clearly ahead of the second player’s 3-8-9-10 but the action keep flying to Pearl’s frustration. When 7th street came around the opponent sitting between Yeager and Pearl finally folded and they split the pot. Pearl was not clearly not happy about the chase nearly draining her chips and she stacked her share of the pot shaking her head.
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Level 11: 1000/2000 Limits
Kevin Mathers was essentially in for his tournament life with his table playing Razz. Mathers had 
vs his opponent’s 
. On the final card, Mathers confidently fired the rest of this his stack. His opponent said “There’s no way I can win this hand” and folded giving Mathers a de facto double-up to a little over 16,000.
Since the last post, five more players have hit the rail and we’re down to 31 remaining in Event 10.