Hand #19: Sean Perry opened to 120,000 in early position and Isaac Kempton three-bet to 360,000. Perry four-bet shoved and Kempton snap-called.
Sean Perry:
Isaac Kempton:
The flop came to give Kempton a full house and have Perry drawing nearly dead. The board finished out to mark the elimination of Perry, who will likely be flying off to Miami now that he is out of the tournament.
Hand #11: Sean Perry opened to 120,000 and everyone folded.
Hand #12: Tony Sinishtaj took a pot off Roland Shen with a river bet of 375,000 on a board of .
Hand #13: Tony Sinishtaj opened to 120,000 and saw a flop against three opponents. The hand checked down on a board of and Alex Livingston won at showdown with .
Hand #14: Isaac Kempton opened to 120,000 and folded when Sean Perry three-bet to 800,000.
Hand #15: Vanessa Kade was in the big blind and got a walk!
Hand #16: Neng Lee and Isaac Kempton chopped a pot when Lee went all-in with ace-queen and Kempton called with ace-jack and the board ran out .
Hand #17: Tony Tran opened to 120,000 and all of his opponents folded.
Hand #6: Isaac Kempton opened to 120,000 from middle position and Sean Perry called the cutoff. Both players checked the flop and Kempton led for 175,000 on the turn. Perry called. The completed the board and Kempton bet 575,000, which Perry called.
Kempton revealed for trips and collected the pot as Perry mucked.
Hand #7: Michael Stembera opened to 130,000 from middle position and everyone folded.
Hand #8: Michael Stembera opened to 130,000 from middle position and everyone folded again.
Hand #9: Vanessa Kade opened to 150,000 from the cutoff and Alex Livingston called the button. The dealer spread the flop and Kade check-called a 175,000 bet. On the turn, Kade check-raised a 400,000 bet up to 1,500,000. Livingston called.
The completed the board and Kade announced she was all-in, as the room started to make noise with the two big stacks getting into it.
"I'll probably take a few minutes on this one, guys," Livingston said as he occasionally stared at Kade and shuffled chips.
Eventually, Livingston folded and Kade took the sizable pot with a small smile as Livingston tried to figure out Kade's holding.
Hand #10: Michael Stembera opened to 130,000 from early position and Roland Shen defended the big blind. The flop fell and Shen check-folded to an 80,000 bet.
Hand #1: Sean Perry opened to 120,000 from under the gun and Alex Livingston three-bet to 350,000 from. the cutoff. Perry four-bet all-in and Livingston quickly folded.
Hand #2: Neng Lee added to his small stack by open-shoving in the cutoff and taking it down.
Hand #3: Isaac Kempton opened to 125,000 and got a call from Roland Shen on the button. Kempton checked on the flop and called a bet of 155,000 from Shen, but opted to fold when facing a bet of 400,000 on the turn.
Hand #4: Alex Livingston opened to 120,000 in early position and saw a flop against Tony Tran in the big blind. Livingston bet 100,000 on the flop of and called a check-raise to 200,000 from Tran.
Tran bet 100,000 on the turn and Livingston called, and called again when Tran bet 450,000 on the river. Tran showed to win the pot.
Hand #5: Sean Perry opened to 120,000 on the button and Tony Sinishtaj three-bet all-in from the big blind. Perry asked to look at Neng Lee's stack and then opted to fold.
Many poker players are likely familiar with Sean Perry through his appearances on PokerGO’s “High Stakes Poker” and his active presence on the high-roller tournament scene.
According to The Hendon Mob, Perry earned his first tournament cash in March 2017 and has racked up an impressive $6 million in cashes since then.
Perry’s largest cash came just a month ago when he took down Event #8: $50,000 PokerGO Cup for $640,000 after defeating Brock Wilson during heads-up play. Days earlier, Perry took down ??Event #2: $10,000 NLH for $200,000 to make him the only player to win two events during the series.
Perry is the son of Ralph Perry, a high-stakes poker pro who himself has $3.4 million in live earnings. You may know the elder Perry as the guy who once called Antanas “Tony G” Guoga with king-jack in the 2006 Intercontinental Poker Championship only to get screamed at and told that his “career is finished.”
The younger Perry enters the final table eighth in chips with 1,700,000 and stated at the end of Day 5 that he “just want(ed) to bust and fly to Miami.” We’ll see if Perry can run up his stack or if he will indeed be Miami-bound.
The ponytail-sporting Michael Stembera enters the final table sixth in chips with a stack of 3,835,000 as he looks to earn his biggest-ever tournament score.
Stembera, a native of San Antonio, Texas, has $558,447 in lifetime earnings that includes a first-place finish in $1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Seniors (Event #1) at the 2019 World Poker Tour - WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $40,970.
Stembera biggest cash came in 2014 when he finished 70th in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $103,025. That means Stembera already has his largest cash locked up as $171,280 is the payout for ninth place.
Stembera stayed relatively quiet throughout Day 5, but we will see if that changes at the final table.
San Jose, California’s Roland Shen will start Day 6 with a stack of 2,875,000 as he looks to continue his hot run in the Wynn Millions Main Event.
While Shen’s short Hendon Mob page only consists of six cashes, those few cashes have racked him up $289,720 in tournament earnings. That includes a second-place finish in the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Thunder Valley Main Event for $116,706.
More recently, Shen finished second in $10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Aria High Roller 38 as part of the 2021 PokerGO Tour Aria High Roller Series, which earned him a payday of $138,000. That means Shen already has his biggest-ever live cash locked up as $171,280 is the prize for ninth place.
Only time will tell if Shen’s seventh Hendon Mob entry will also be his first first-place finish in a live tournament.