Level 20 is done and 95 players remain. They’re currently enjoying a break.
Harrison Gimbel has chipped up nicely, approaching the 1 million chip mark. Also still in the hunt are Noah Schwartz, Jamie Gold, Stuart Paterson, Mike Wang, and Jake Bazeley.
Don’t worry Brynn, PawPaw is still in as well! Perry Johnston’s hanging on with 159,000 (about 13 big blinds).
While playing hand-for-hand, Douglas Claybrook (Vidor, TX) was all-in for his last 16k and called by Julian Gallo in the big blind.
They had to wait patiently until the action was finished on all the other tables and after another player busted out. If Douglas also busted, he would share 120th place money.
When it was their turn, Douglas revealed pocket Tens. He was ahead, but racing against Julian’s AJ suited.
The board bricked out K 7 4 9 6 and Douglas survived, doubled up, and is now in the money!
$570 Deeper Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) Level 20: Blinds 5,000/10,000/1,000 ante
After a little administrative counting, the field went into hand-for-hand mode with 121 players remaining.
It only took one time around to get two all-ins called.
The short stack doubled on Table 5 but we knew it was going to be tough going for the shorter on Table 13. No one revealed their hand before action completed at the other tables but everyone knew it was Aces versus Kings.
Domenico Maurici (Hialeah, FL) was the shorter of the two stacks and rolled over . Troy Bercot (Palmetto, FL) had him dominated with and never had a sweat as the board ran out to send the pot to Bercot, Maurici out in the unpaid 121st spot, and the rest of the field in the money.
Then he flopped a set of 9s to bust Joe Gibbons, who had flopped top pair. That put him up to ~900k.
Then a short-stack was all-in and dominating with AQ againt Svi’s A6. The board fell 8 9 7 K 5 giving Svi a straight and the pot. He’s now up to about 1.2 million.
Players are back from their break and only 162 remain (average stack is ~183k).
128 players were dispatched in 120 minutes of action. Now another 42 must go to reach the money. If the departures continue apace, we’ll be there in under an hour.
Stuart Newman has also hit the rail, according to his Tweet:
Opens KTcc – go 3 ways – Flop KT4hh – I bet 15k – guy shoves like 200k – He has A3hh and I will be watching NFL now @shrpo 500k GTY — Stewart Newman (@stnewman) November 23, 2014