WPTDS Day 1A: David Farber Still Leads at the Break; Tony Zharnitsky Spikes a 3-Outer to Stay Alive, Then Wins a 3-Way All-In Situation

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Hollywood
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 13:  1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Flight A Players Remaining:  126 of 367

David Farber
Chipleader David Farber

The players return from break to begin Level 13, with increased blinds of 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante. With 126 players remaining, the average chip stack is about 87,000 (44 big blinds).

A scan of the field during the break turned up four players with at least 300K in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard with David Farber still in the lead:

1.  David Farber  –  332,000  (166 bb)
2.  Tony Zharnitsky  –  316,000  (158 bb)
3.  Paul Grigsby  –  312,000  (156 bb)
4.  Jerry Wong  –  305,000  (153 bb)

Tony Zharnitsky
Tony Zharnitsky

Tony Zharnitsky had a great run in the last level before the break to crack the leaderboard. At one point, he got it all in on the turn with AxJx on a board of Ax6x2xXx, but his opponent snap-called with Ax6x for two pair. Zharnitsky was getting up to leave when the dealer put out a Jx on the river to keep him alive and give him the double-up.

Roughly an orbit later, the player who had the ace-six in that hand raised to 4,000, Zharnitsky reraised to 17,500, and another player moved all in for a bit less than 100K. The original raiser and Zharnitsky both got it all in for a little bit more, and all three players turned over their cards:

Tony Zharnitsky:  KxKx
Original Raiser:  10x10x
Short Stack:  QxQx

The pocket kings held up for Zharnitsky to scoop the entire pot, eliminating both players and catapulting up over 300K to reach the leaderboard.

Tony Zharnitsky  –  316,000  (158 bb)