LIVE EVENTS

Madison was just eliminated in third place for $1,050 ($1,000 + $50 bounty).

Michael Carrington and Ali Keshavarz are now heads up playing down to a winner. As both players have almost equal stacks, they have decided to pay $1,240 for the runner up in second place and $1,364 for the first place champion.

Mike Lagi has been eliminated in fifth place for $1,050 ($1,000 + $50 bounty).

Steven Clement followed in fourth place, also for $1,050 ($1,000 + $50 bounty).

The players have decided to make a deal: each player has locked up $1,000, and every player will also keep their own $50 bounty chip, and play will continue down to a winner who will receive an additional $604 (total $1,604).

Here are the chip counts of the final five players:

Michael Carrington and Martin D. were heads up all the way to the river. On the river, Carrington put in a bet of 70,000. Martin went into the tank, counting and re-counting his stack many times, until finally he made the call.

Carrington opened his hand to show that he flopped the nut flush, and Martin threw his cards into the muck while shaking his head in disgust.

On the next hand Ali Keshavarz opened with a min-raise and Martin shoved his remaining chips. Keshavarz made the call. His timing was spot on as although all he was holding was KQ-high, double suited, he flopped a king and went runner runner boat to knock out Martin in sixth place for $300.

Ali Keshavarz

Peng Peng was in the lead for much of the tournament, however, as fate would have it, he has left the tournament room with only his bounty chips. He had put all of his chips into the middle pre-flop, and Martin D. made the call.

Peng:     
Martin:   

The board ran out and Martin eliminated Peng to bring the tournament to the bubble.

A few hands later there were a few limps pre-flop and the dealer proceeded to fan out the flop:

Madison led out for 15,000 and Yves Perras shoved his short stack, and Madi made the call.

Yves:   
Madi: 

The turn was the and the river was the , giving Madi 2 pair for the win, and putting the remaining players into the money.

Here are the chip counts of the remaining 8 players:

Arriving at the table we had missed the action but the board showed , and Martin put in a large bet only to have Madison throw in his bounty chip. Martin made the call.

Martin: 6JT7 for a flopped straight (we missed the suits as the cards were initially mucked and only opened by the dealer for a few seconds)

Madison: ; he had flopped a straight and had re-draws to a flush, then made two pair on the turn and boated up on the river.

For the last few levels the play has been slow and steady, losing a player every 15-20 minutes or so. On table 28, Peng opened the action with just a little more than a min-raise to 3,600, and had calls by Ali A, Martin D. and Andrew “AJ” Johnson.

The flop came and Peng led out for 16,000, only to be re-raised all in by Ali (56,400). Martin D. then re-potted all in on top. AJ and Peng decided to fold.

Ali: for a flopped straight with a re-draw to a straight flush.
Martin: for a flopped set of 8’s.

The turn was no help to either player but the on the river paired the board to give Martin a boat allowing him to pick up another bounty chip by knocking out Ali.

As the tournament is now down to only nine players, the final table has been formed, and the top six players will be in the money.

Here are the players on the final table (players with an * have the larger stacks):

• Peng Peng*
• Yves Perras
• Ali Keshavarz
• Andrew Johnson
• Steven Clement
• Michael Carrington*
• Martin D.*
• Madison Palaysi*
• Michael “Lagi”*

With a total of 41 players (including 10 re-entries), the total prize pool grew to $8,200 (including 41 x $50 bounties), less the 3% staff gratuity.

Here are the payouts:

The players have just returned from the first break of the evening which also means that late registration is now closed. A total of 41 players have entered (including 10 re-entries), bringing the total prize pool one player north of the $8,000 guarantee (the prize pool includes the regular payouts plus the 41 x $50 bounty chips in play). The prize pool will be announced shortly.

Counting the stacks during the break, there were three players who managed to accumulate over 100,000; Peng Peng is in the lead with 150,700, and has a sweet stack of eight bounties so far!

Here are our leaders in level 7:

With the Button on seat 1, action opened with three limps until it reached Michael Carrington in seat 6 who announced “pot” (9,100 chips). He found a call in seat 7 by Shen Bin and in seat 8 by Dan Vigderhous, and then an “all in under” by Steven Clement in seat 1. Ali Alaoui also made the call and came along to see the flop. Arthur W. folded and provided colour commentary as the hand played out.

With 17,600 in the side pot and close to 30,000 in the main pot, the dealer fanned out and Ali checked, followed by a bet of 30,000 by Carrington. Bin and Vigderhous folded and Ali made the call with his remaining chips.

Clement:
Ali:
Carrington:

Carrington was in the lead but Ali had a ton of outs.

The turn brought the and the river didn’t change anything, and just like that, Carrington picked up 2 bounties and all kinds of chips to dominate the table at the moment.