High Roller Day 1: Down To Fifteen

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000/1000 Ante

After Jason Mercier took a big chunk out of Andy Andrejevic’s stack, David Peters finished him off and then George Dolofan took out Fred Goldberg to take us down to fifteen players remaining with eleven getting into the money.

Here are the seating assignments after the re-draw:

Table 78
Seat 1: Brian Yoon
Seat 2: Ankush Mandavia
Seat 3: Doc Sands
Seat 4: Jason Mercier
Seat 5: Tom Marchese
Seat 6: Raj Vohra
Seat 7: Barry Hutter
Seat 8: Kathy Lehne

Table 84
Seat 1: David Peters
Seat 2: George Dolofan
Seat 3: Sean Winter
Seat 4: Ashwin Sarin
Seat 5: Vacant
Seat 6: James Joyner
Seat 7: Ian O’Hara
Seat 8: Phil Laak

High Roller Day 1: O’Hara Catches Sands, Shorr Gone

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000/1000 Ante

Ian O'Hara
Ian O’Hara

The collisions are getting bigger and bigger and Ian O’Hara just won one of them making the right call and managed to get some chips off Doc Sands.

On a 4c6d3hTs8s board and 144,000 in the pot, Sands fired out 125,000.  O’Hara took his time and made the call.  Sands showed the Js7h bluff and O’Hara flipped up AdAs taking down the pot.

In the meantime, Shannon Shorr was eliminated on another table and we’re down to 17 players left tonight.

Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr

High Roller Day 1: Laak Aces Andy

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000/1000 Ante

Phil Laak
Phil Laak

With a 95,000 chip pot built between Phil Laak and Andy Andrejevic from a 8sAsQh flop, the 4h came on the turn.  Andrejevic checked and Laak fired out 53,000.  Andrejevic made the call and the 5s hit the river.  Andrejevic once again checked and Laak put out another 144,000.  Andrejevic went into the tank and finally made the call.

Laak showed AhAc for the set and Andrejevic mucked.  The hand put Laak just ahead of David Peters for the chip lead with 19 players left.

High Roller Day 1: Level 15 Begins

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000/1,000 Ante

The players return from break to begin Level 15, with increased blinds of 5,000-10,000 and a 1,000 ante.

With 19 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 437,000 (44 big blinds). Action will continue tonight until there are nine players remaining for tomorrow afternoon’s televised final table.

The final 11 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $57,500.

High Roller Day 1: Break Time Chip Counts

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000/1000 Ante

We’ve on break here in our High Roller with 19 players remaining. Here are the chips counts as we near our final table.

Table 77
David Peters – 773,000
Shannon Shorr – 134,000
Jason Mercier – 271,000
Phil Laak – 596,000
Barry Hutter – 569,000
Andy Andrejevic – 622,000

Table 78
Fred Goldberg – 275,000
Raj Vohra – 438,000
Ashwin Sarin – 476,000
Tom Marchese – 321,000
Brian Yoon – 145,000
George Dolofan – 263,000
James Joyner – 429,000

Table 84
Ian O’Hara – 637,000
Doc Sands – 638,000
Ty Reiman – 344,000
Sean Winter – 395,000
Ankush Mandavia – 653,000
Kathy Lehne – 199,000

High Roller Day 1: Out In Front

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Things have tightened up since the rebuy period ended but we do have a few players opening up some space between themselves and the rest of the pack.

Andy Andrejevic, Ankush Mandavia, Ian O’ Hara and Tom Marchese are looking good right now.  Andrejevic stands at 637,000 leading the way.  Mandavia sits at 596,000 with O’Hara at 569,000 and Marchese at 505,000.

24 players remain as we close in on our final table tonight.

Andy Andrejevic
Andy Andrejevic
Tom Marchese
Tom Marchese
Ankush Mandavia
Ankush Mandavia

High Roller Day 1: Byron Kaverman Eliminated by David Sands

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Byron Kaverman was all in from the small blind with Kc10s, and he needed to improve to stay alive against the Ad10d of David Sands in the big blind.

The board came QhJd4c8h4h — Kaverman flopped an open-ended straight draw, but improved no further. Sands won the pot with his ace to eliminate Kaverman from the tournament.

David “Doc” Sands  –  365,000  (46 bb)
Byron Kaverman  –  Eliminated

With 24 players remaining, they redraw for random seats at the final three tables (8-handed play). The average chip stack is about 346,000 (43 big blinds).

High Roller Day 1: Level 14 Begins

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000/1,000 Ante

Level 13 comes to an end, and Level 14 begins with increased blinds of 4,000-8,000 and a 1,000 ante. Play continues without a break.

With 26 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 320,000 (40 big blinds).

The final 11 players will finish in the money, guaranteed at least $57,500 each. Action will continue tonight until there are nine players remaining for tomorrow afternoon’s televised final table.

High Roller Day 1: Hans Winzeler Eliminated by David Peters

$25,400 High Roller Event (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 3,000/6,000/1,000 Ante

Hans Winzeler
Hans Winzeler

Hans Winzeler was all in UTG+1 with KdKc, and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the Ac10s of David Peters in the big blind.

The board came AdQc2hQh2d, and Peters paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Winzeler from the tournament.

David Peters  –  425,000
Hans Winzeler  –  Eliminated

With 27 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 307,000 (51 big blinds).