Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
Level: 26
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
The clock is stopped and the players are now on a 10-minute break.
Emad Alabsi already won a poker tournament this week... now he's just getting greedy.
Alabsi just scored a huge double through Miguel Borrero - backing up a boast he made moments earlier.
Borrero had chided Alabsi for an unspecified action, with the winner of Event 8 retorting "it doesn't matter anyway, I'm getting all your chips soon!"
Sure enough, after Borrero made an opening raise to 80,000 Alabsi sprung his trap, moving all in for 274,000 more. Borrero called off most of his stack with just - admitting after the hand that his opponent's bluster had goaded him into the decision - only to see Alabsi roll over like a man who speaks the truth.
The final run out of sent Alabsi the pot, as he backed up an earlier boast in style with the bullets.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Emad Alabsi |
775,000
435,000
|
435,000 |
Miguel Borrero |
175,000
-450,000
|
-450,000 |
Bob Gilbert began the final table as the short stack, and soon enough his last eight big blinds went into the middle on a preflop shove.
Ivan Polanco quickly made the call after the table folded around to him, and his had Gilbert's dominated.
The final board ran out and Gilbert could not find a five, leaving him to offer his former opponents a "good game" before heading over to the payout desk to collect next month's rent money.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ivan Polanco |
920,000
355,000
|
355,000 |
Bob Gilbert | Busted | |
|
Titles can often be misleading, but this one is not.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Zhu |
2,100,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
Nick Marino |
1,400,000
1,130,000
|
1,130,000 |
James Boyle |
980,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Satish Surapaneni |
895,000
118,000
|
118,000 |
Miguel Borrero |
625,000
-230,000
|
-230,000 |
Jinwei Wang |
620,000
-105,000
|
-105,000 |
Ivan Polanco |
565,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
Alex Katsman |
470,000
470,000
|
470,000 |
Emad Alabsi |
340,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Bob Gilbert |
330,000
-220,000
|
-220,000 |
|
Take a look at the final table in order of seating position.
After seeing the flop fall Andrew Zhu tapped the table and Matt Chin checked behind. The turn came and Zhu fired out for 100,000, before calling Chin's raise to 350,000.
The river card was the and Zhu bet 400,000 into Chin, who held only 420,000 behind.
Chin counted out the bet and sized Zhu up from across the table, before finally announcing "I think you missed the flush draw" and making the call.
"I have an ace," responded Zhu, telling him Chin the bad news with authority in his voice. Indeed, Zhu's was the winner when Chin's bluff-catcher turned out to be an outkicked .
The 10 players still left with chips have reconvened at the final table, and a full table draw will be forthcoming shortly.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Zhu |
1,850,000
750,000
|
750,000 |
Matt Chin
|
Busted |
Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 4,000
Tim Bryan made his stand with a preflop shove holding , and James Boyle quickly called with to put him at risk.
The final board rolled out queen-high and Boyle's fishhooks were enough to send Bryan out in 12th place.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
James Boyle |
950,000
270,000
|
270,000 |
Tim Bryan | Busted |
Christopher Thompson went broke after getting the last of a short stack in before the flop holding .
Andrew Zhu's held up for the ace-high win even after Thompson flopped a four-flush to nine outs to his arsenal.
Zhu has topped the million-chip plateau with the average stack sitting at a little over 700,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrew Zhu |
1,100,000
770,000
|
770,000 |
Christopher Thompson | Busted |