$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 5K/10K/ 1K ante
Event 13: Level Up
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 6K/12K/ 2K ante
We’re still at 9-handed play on 2 tables as the blind level goes up to 6K/12K/ 2K ante.
Event 13: Payouts 10-12
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 21: 5K/10K/ 1K ante
Neville Darrell is all-in for his tournament life and Arthur Boatman makes the call.
Darrell:
Boatman:
The board runs out and Boatman turns his pair of Queens to eliminate Darrell in 10th place. Three more knockouts until we reach our unofficial final table of 7 players.
Place – Name – Payout
10. Neville Darrell $1,544
Darrell
12. Mathijs Storms $1,544
Event 13: Payouts 13-15
Event 13: Payouts 16-18
Event 13: Breaking Good
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 2: 4K/8K/ 1K ante
The 15 remaining players are currently on their 15 minute break. When they return they’ll be at Level 20 blinds: 4K/8K/ 1K ante. Average stack is 245K (31bbs). Our chip leader is Abbey Daniels (Coral Springs, FL) with about 590K.
Event 13: Cash Money!
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 18: 2500/5K/ 500 ante
Hand for hand, 19 handed play lasts for over 40 minutes. Finally a player on the button shoves his short stack of 24K and gets looked up by Michael Laake (Sarasota, FL). The cards are:
Laake
Opponent
The board is not kind to the all-in player as it comes to burst the bubble when Laake makes his pair of 10s on the flop to eliminate his opponent in 19th place.
All remaining 18 players are now in the money and have consolidated onto 3 tables!
Event 13: Top pair, Top draw
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2K/4K/ 500 ante
On a flop, Dolphy Garricks (Miramar, FL) re-shoves his stack to isolate a player who’s already all-in. The cards are tabled:
Garricks:
Opponent:
Garricks has top pair and top kicker and has the nut flush draw. The turn and river bring to complete Garricks’ flush and knock out his opponent in 20th place.
Event 13: I’ll show you, but just one time
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 2K/4K/ 500 ante
Morris Heider bets out 11K from the cutoff position. Dolphy Garricks (Miramar, FL) has the button, and makes the call directly to Heider’s left. The flop comes and Heider checks. Garricks then fires out 13K. Heider mucks. Garricks then says “I’ll show you just this one time, but that’s it” as he turns over the to prove he wasn’t bluffing. Garricks is sitting on about 250K (~63bbs). Nice and neighborly, that’s what poker is all about.
24 players remain in Event 13, paying top 18.
Event 13: Back at em
$350 Buy-In Big Stack Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 16: 1500/3K/ 500 ante
Players have just returned from dinner break. 32 players are left. Our chip leader coming back from break in Event 13 is Eric Nuss with 258,500. Here are some other notable chip counts:
David M. 231K
Dolphy Garricks 215K
Arthur Boatman 198K
Stuart Paterson 167K