Event 23: A Round of Chip Counts from Half the Room

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 162 of 529

Kory Kilpatrick – 190,000
Samuel Bernabeu – 170,000
Chino Rheem – 150,000
Scott Clements – 140,000
Bryn Kenney – 100,000
Jonathan Karamalikis – 100,000
Brian Hastings – 62,000
Jared Hamby – 50,000
Tony Cousineau – 50,000
Mike Beasley – 50,000
Shannon Shorr – 44,000
Alex Fitzgerald – 34,000

Event 23: Josh Field Doubles Through Anthony Spinella

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 171 of 529

Josh Field
Josh Field

Josh Field moved all in from middle position for 11,600 and Anthony Spinella moved all in for about 20,000 next to act. Everybody else got out of the way and the cards were tabled.

Field showed AsJh and was flipping with Spinella’s 9s9h.

The board ran out Qs5d2cJc4dand Field turned a jack to stay alive and double up.

Josh Field – 26,800
Anthony Spinella – 9,500

Event 23: George Abdo Eliminated By Stan Jablonski

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 12: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 180 of 529

George Abdo moved all in under the gun for right around 20,000 and action folded to Stan Jablonski, who three-bet all in over the top for 45,000 or so. The blinds both folded and the cards were turned up.

Jablonski: AsKc
Abdo: Ac9c

Jablonski’s kicker had him well out in front, and that’s just where he stayed after the board ran out a clean 3hJs4s3c5c.

Meanwhile, both Allen Kessler and Mike Wang have fell in recent action.

Stan Jablonski – 60,000
George Abdo – Eliminated
Allen Kessler – Eliminated
Mike Wang – Eliminated

Event 23: Nick Palma Eliminated

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 198 of 529

Nick Palma got all in preflop for about 16,000 from middle position against the player on the button.

Palma showed Ac[Qc and needed to hit a queen against the button’s AdKc.

The flop was Qh9s8h and Palma took the lead after flopping a queen. The lead for Palma was short live, however, with the Kd coming on the turn .

The river was the 7d and Palma hit the rail.

Nick Palma – Eliminated 

Event 23: Ryan Tepen Shoves On Chane Kampanatsanyakorn

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 198 of 529

Ryan Tepen
Ryan Tepen

On a flop of Kh9c8h, Justin Young checked from the big blind and Jack Duong checked from under the gun. Chane Kampanatsanyakorn bet 5,000 from middle position and Ryan Tepen raised to 10,000 on the button.

Young and Duong quickly fold. Kampanatsanyakorn called. The turn was the 2s and Kampanatsanyakorn checked. Tepen moved all in for about 20,000 and Kampantsanyakorn folded.

Tepen mucked his hand and took the pot.

Ryan Tepen – 48,000
Chane Kampanatsanyakorn – 29,000

 

Event 23: Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi Falls

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 198 of 529

We missed the elimination of Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi as it happened, but fortunately the man who eliminated him, Gil Morgensztern, filled us in on some details.

As he told it, Mizrachi open-jammed the KxQx8x two-diamond flop holding the 6d7d and a player in between called. Morgensztern then moved all in over the top with QxJx, the other player folded, and Mizrachi bricked on both the turn and river.

Gil Morgensztern – 50,000
Michael Mizrachi – Eliminated

Event 23: Check-Raise for Jonathan Duhamel

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 198 of 529

Jonathan Duhamel (left) and his opponent
Jonathan Duhamel (left) and his opponent

The board was JhJd9d. Jonathan Duhamel was first to act in a three-way pot. He checked as did the opponent to his immediate left and Dan Heimiller on the button.

The turn was the Ks. Duhamel checked again. The opponent bet 10,500 and Heimiller quickly got out of the way. It was back on Duhamel and he reached deep into his stack, sliding out a raise to 23,000. The opponent folded and Duhamel earned the pot.

Jonathan Duhamel – 82,000

Event 23: Another Double for Bryn Kenney

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 11: 600/1,200 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 207 of 529

In a hand between Mike Wang and Bryn Kenney, we picked up the action preflop with the former having 6,600 in front of him in the cutoff and the latter popping it to 13,500 from the small blind. Wang responded by moving all in and Kenney snap-called off for 42,800 total.

Kenney: AdAh
Wang: QsQc

Kenney improved to a set on the As4d3s flop, which left Wang drawing to runner-runner. The 10d turn took away any chance of that happening, and he sent over more than half his stack after the 3c was run out on the river.

Bryn Kenney – 90,000
Mike Wang – 40,000

Event 23: Eric Blair Eliminated

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 225 of 529

A player in early position moved all in and action folded around to Eric Blair in the big blind. Blair took a few moments to think before committing his last 8,200 chips to the pot.

It was a flip with Blair at risk with his As9h up against his opponent’s 3c3h.

The flop was Tc8s7s, which gave Blair an open-ended straight draw with overcards.

The turn was the 4d and the river was the 4s to send Blair to the rail near the end of the level.

“Too many outs,” said Blair as he was getting up from his chair.

Eric Blair – Eliminated 

Event 23: Fours for Bryn Kenney

$2,650 No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)
Level 10: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 234 of 529

After a player in middle position opened with a raise, Bryn Kenney three-bet all in for 18,900 from the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded, and then the original raiser put in the chips to make the call.

Kenney: 4c4d
Opponent: AdQd

It was a flip, and Kenney was just looking to hold to stay alive. That’s just what he did to as the board ran out a safe Jd8h6sKc6h.

Bryn Kenney – 40,000