Phillip Hui completes the small blind and Jordan Chizick checks his option in the big blind.
The flop is and Hui bets. Chizick raises, Hui makes it three-bets and Chizick gets all in for about 50,000. Hui calls.
“You got the king?” asks Chizick, tabling .
Hui shows and has a bigger full house.
“I’m drawing dead,” says Chizick. “Give me my money.”
The turn is the and the river is the to officially eliminate Chizick and secure the pot for Hui. Chizick falls just shy of another Hard Rock Trophy and takes home $1,862 for his fourth place finish.
On a flop of , Leonard Germain checks from the small blind and Phillip Hui bets from the big blind. Hoyt Verner called from the cutoff and Germain check-raises. Hui makes it three bets, Verner calls and is all in for less. Germain calls as well and there is already a side pot brewing between Germain and Hui.
The turn is the and Germain checks. Hui bets and Germain calls. The turn is the and and Germain checks. Hui bets and Hui calls.
Hui shows , good for the second nut low and the nut flush. Germain shows his hand briefly and then mucks it. Verner shows and is eliminated in sixth place. He takes home $1,396.
When the final table started, Robert Campbell had just a little more than one big bet. He survived the money bubble and ran his stack up to almost 100,000 before being eliminated in 7th place.
He takes home $931 and the final six players are all guaranteed a four-figure payday.
Action gets capped preflop between Hoyt Verner in middle position, David Prociak in the hijack and Leonard Germain in the cutoff. Verner is all in for 25,000 and there is a side pot already in the making between Prociak and Germain.
The flop is and Prociak checks. Germain bets and Prociak calls. The turn is the and Prociak checks. Germain bets and Prociak folds.
“This is such a tight fold,” says Prociak as he tosses his hand into the muck.
Germain shows , good for the nut flush. He wins the entire side pot and chops the main pot with Verner’s .
The river is an irrelevant and Verner stays alive.
Leonard Germain – 210,000 Hoyt Verner – 40,000 David Prociak – 140,000
Phillip Hui raises from early position and Lazaro Rodriguez calls and is all in for 9,000 from the cutoff. Ronnie Morone calls on the button and David Prociak defends his big blind.
The flop is and Prociak checks. Hui bets, Morone calls, and Prociak folds.
The turn is the and Hui bets again. Morone calls. The river is the and Hui bets.
“Thanks for three-quartering me,” says Morone as he tosses in a call.
“Ace-deuce and queen-high hearts,” says Hui.
“Yeah, I got ace-deuce,” says Morone. “You get three-quarters.”
Hui shows , Morone shows , and Rodriguez shows his as a formality. Rodriguez is eliminated in eighth place and takes home $745 for his finish.
Al Green gets all in for 11,000 out of the big blind and gets action from Ronnie Morone in the small blind, Hoyt Verner from under the gun and Robert Campbell in the cutoff.
Everybody checks the whole way down as the board runs out and Campbell shows . Morone shows , Verner mucks his hand, and Green’s hand was only tabled momentarily before being quickly scooped into the muck.
Morone and Campbell chop the pot with jacks and sevens, while Green is eliminated in ninth place. Green takes home $558.
Robert Campbell – 90,000 Ronnie Morone – 65,000 Al Green – Eliminated