$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000

On a flop of , Carlos Loving checks and Daren Stabinski bets. Loving check-raises to 60,000 and Stabinski calls.

The turn is the and Loving bets 85,000. Stabinski calls and the river is the . Both players check.

Loving announces king-high and Stabinski shows . Loving flashes a three as well before mucking his hand. Stabinski drags the pot and the two are even in chips.

Daren Stabinski – 700,000
Carlos Loving – 700,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000

Daren Stabinski raises on the button and Carlos Loving defends his big blind.

The flop is and Loving checks. Stabinski bets 25,000 and Loving calls. The turn is the and Loving checks again. Stabinski bets again, this time 35,000 and Loving calls.

The river is the and Loving checks for a third time. Stabinski bets 90,000 and Loving doesn’t waste much time in calling.

“You win,” said Stabinski.

Loving shows , good for a pair of tens and Stabinski mucks his hand.

Loving takes the pot and opens up a bit of a chip lead over Stabinski.

Carlos Loving – 810,000
Daren Stabinski – 590,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000

Carlos Loving is heads-up with Daren Stabinski for the title and $8,120. Here is a look at the chip counts at the start of heads-up play. The runner-up takes home $4,760.

Carlos Loving – 720,000
Daren Stabinski – 680,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 2 of 140
Average Stack: 700,000

Joel Duarte moves all in on the button for about 130,000 and Carlos Loving calls out of the small blind.

Duarte shows and is in the lead against Loving’s .

The flop is and Duarte keeps the lead. The falls on the turn and Duarte lets out a sigh of frustration as Loving takes the lead and Duarte is left with three outs to the river.

The river is the and Loving drags the pot to eliminate Duarte in third for $2,800.

Loving now goes heads-up with Daren Stabinski with almost identical chip stacks and play for the title and $8,120.

Carlos Loving – 720,000
Joel Duarte – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 140
Average Stack: 466,000

Howard Talesnick raises to 20,000 from under-the-gun and Carlos Loving three-bets to 45,000 from the big blind.

Talesnick calls and they are heads-up to a flop of . Loving checks and Talesnick moves all in for 115,000. Loving calls.

Loving shows and is in the lead against Talesnick’s . The turn is the , giving Talesnick two more outs, but the river is the and Talesnick is eliminated in fourth.

Talesnick earns $2,240 and Loving moves over the 500,000 chip mark.

Carlos Loving – 560,000
Howard Talesnick – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 140
Average Stack: 350,000

There is about 60,000 chips in the pot on the turn with the board reading and Daren Stabinski bets 35,000 from under-the-gun.

Joel Duarte raises to 85,000 on the button and Stabinski takes a moment before calling. The river is the and both players check.

Stabinski shows , giving him a flush and Duarte mucks his hand. Stabinski drags the pot and has almost half of the chips in play.

Daren Stabinski – 650,000
Joel Duarte – 155,000

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 4 of 140
Average Stack: 350,000

Daren Stabinski raises to 16,000 under-the-gun and Donte Larsen three-bets to 41,000 from the cutoff. Stabinski moves all in and Larsen calls.

Larsen is the player at risk and is all in for about 170,000. Larsen shows and Stabinsi shows .

The board runs out and Stabinski wins the flip to eliminate Larsen. Stabinski takes the chip lead from Carlos Loving and nears half a million chips.

Daren Stabinski – 490,000
Donte Larsen – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 140
Average Stack: 280,000

Joel Duarte raises to 18,000 from the cutoff and Eric Riley moves all in on the button for about 45,000. Duarte calls and the cards are tabled.

Duarte shows and is dominated by Riley’s .

The flop is and Riley flops top set, but Duarte is drawing live with a flush draw. The turn is the , keeping Riley in the lead, but the river is the to give Duarte a flush and eliminate Riley.

Riley takes home $1,400 for his sixth place finish and Duarte picks up another $100 for the bounty.

Joel Duarte – 310,000
Eric Riley – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 140
Average Stack: 233,333

Seth Gilson moves all in from the hijack for 57,000 and Joel Duarte calls from the cutoff.

Gilson shows and is dominated by Duarte’s . The board runs out and Gilson hits the rail in seventh place.

Gilson earns $1,120 and Duarte moves up the chip counts.

Joel Duarte – 310,000
Seth Gilson – Eliminated

$350 No Limit Hold’em Black Chip Bounty
Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 140
Average Stack: 200,000

Shawn Nguyen raises to 12,000 from middle position and Daren Stabinski calls from the cutoff.

The flop is and Nguyen checks. Stabinski bets 15,000 and Nguyen check-raises to 35,000. Stabinski moves all in and Nguyen calls off his stack, all in for about 70,000 total.

Nguyen shows , giving him an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. He has lots of equity against Stabinski’s , good for bottom pair.

The turn is the and the river is the to brick off for Nguyen and give Stabinski the pot. Nguyen is eliminated in eighth place and takes home $840 for his final table appearance.

Daren Stabinski – 260,000
Shawn Nguyen – Eliminated