Event 13
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Level 30: 100,000/200,000/120,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 47
Average Chips: 6,000,000
Rare five way this late in the tourney. Jack Barnes,, seat 3, takes it down with a bet after the PFR check – then shows the flopped nutters.
Taking the spot: Jackob Datashvili shoves over an open, earning a snap fold, then gently slides his holding forward.
Big gain for Purnell on 5: He makes the nuts with the K7cc, breaks his opponent’s high cards, and shoots to over 8 m.
Reversal of fortune: Joe Shady has been short for a long time, and goes with fours, cracking KK on the river. He’s got an average stack, at last.
Lisa Pickell tosses her queens, their shadows over the all in button, in the muck after Oscar M. ships the Ace high board into her. The table breaks, down to six.
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Level 30: 100,000/200,000/200,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 56
Michael Rossitto
Chip leader Michael Rossitto is keeping his foot on the gas and he’s showing no signs of slowing down. He added another big pot to his stack just before the break.
Rossitto won the flip with 
against the 
of his opponent to score the knockout.
He is now sitting behind a mountain of 16,300,000 and he has distanced himself well out in front of the Almighty Stack field with 56 players remaining.
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End of Level 29: 80,000/160,000/160,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 57
Average Chips: 4,800,000
“It’s hard when you get older, with all these young guys,” Gary Gelman ruminated.
They are certainly putting Gary to the test, but he is still here.
At 8/16, Gary opened multiple times, looking to make something happen. Finally picking up 
in the cutoff, this was his spot. He again opened to 400,000, got through the button and small, but the final actor Louis Ditonno ripped in his 15 bigs, putting immense pressure on the middle ace.
Ditonno shoves over Gelman, foreground.
Gary took a long time to decide. He talked about facing ace-jack, but clearly wanted to find a call with the reasonable suited ace. After a while, it seemed a fold was coming, despite not wanting to be bluffed out.
Still clinging to the suited ace, Gary tries to get a read.
When he regrettably threw it away, Ditonno asked if he wanted to see, and offered him the choice of one card.
The 
was shown. Perhaps that made Gary feel better.
Both players remain with enough to shove over an open, but not much more, on one of the shortest stacked tables.
On the next table over, Bhuvin Patel just doubled through the resurgent Calderaro, slowing James down a bit.
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End of Level 28: 60,000/120,000/120,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 60
The Event 13 players are now on a 15-minute color up break. We are down to the final 60 Almighty Stack players and we will pick right back up on the action when play resumes.
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Level 29: 80,000/160,000/160,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 65
Kevin Grabel
The action folded to Kevin Grabel on the button and he moved all in for 2,840,000. Mukul Pahuja went deep into the tank from the small blind. After verifying the chip count he called and the big blind folded.
Kevin Grabel: 
Mukul Pahuja: 
Mukul Pahuja
Grabel was in great shape to double up and he did just that when the board ran out 
.
Kevin Grabel- 6,000,000
Mukul Pahuja- 260,000
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Level 29: 80,000/160,000/160,000 BB Ante
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Players Remaining: 70
James Calderaro
The chips are flying here on Day 2 of the Almighty Stack and there are plenty of big stacks emerging. WSOP bracelet winner James Calderaro has quietly amassed one the largest stacks in the field.
He is now playing about 6,600,000 and has position on the big stack Michael Rossitto. There’s plenty of potential for a monster pot in the future if these two monster stacks elect to clash.
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Level 29: 80,000/160,000/160,000 BB Ante
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Players Remaining: 70
Average Chips: 3,987,000
Rinat Ruvinov slings out the bet into the button, getting the fold.
Ruvinov, one of the largest stacks to make it Day 2, has been averaged stacked and treading water, but with several pots this level has risen to nearly 4.5 m.
Just after showing a bluff to his corner of the table, Geno Raman gets it in good with AK…
…and celebrates the win after his opponent walks to his payout. Still below the average but now a double will make him dangerous.
Getting the count. Fernando DeCruz faces a very tough decision. He gets it in behind but escapes with a chop on five to hang on to his ten bigs and hope.
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Level 28: 60,000/120,000/120,000 BB Ante
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Players Remaining: 85
Michael Rossitto
Michael Rossitto and Bhavin Patel were heads up on the 
board. Patel checked and Rossitto bet 750,000 into a main pot of about 1,100,000.
Patel called and both players knuckled the felt when the 
hit the river. Patel showed 
but Rossitto did one better turning over 
to take the pot and extend his chip lead.
Michael Rossitto- 9,200,000
Bhavin Patel
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Level 27: 50,000/100,000/100,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 90
Mukul Pahuja ($5,050,114 in career tournament earnings)
There are just 92 Almighty Stack players remaining and they are falling fast here on Day 2. One table that will not be breaking tonight is Table 1 and it’s a stacked lineup to say the least.
Dan Buzgon ($2,005,016 in career tournament earnings)
Kevin Grabel is seated in the one seat and Mukul Pahuja is just one seat to his left. Satish Surapenini is in the three seat and Dan Buzgon is filling the four seat.
Kevin Grabel ($860,000 in career tournament earnings)
As we move around the table we see Todd Rebello is seated in the seven seat rounding out this murders row of poker pros.
We will surely keep an eye on this table throughout the night and there should be no shortage of action with this group of dangerous players sharing the felt.
Mukul Pahuja- 4,250,000
Kevin Grabel- 3,500,000
Todd Rebello- 2,700,000
Satish Surapaneni- 1,400,000
Dan Buzgon- 1,000,000
Todd Rebello ($657,179 in career tournament earnings)
Satish Surapaneni ($594,349 in tournament earnings)
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Level 27: Blinds 50,000/100,000/100,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 2,791
Players Remaining: 92
Average Stack: 3 million
Time. Datashvili collects after a river shove with long tank goes uncalled on 6. He shows Irene Carey an ambiguous card when she folds – she stares at him and can only wonder, afterwards.
Three way all in on 4 leaves Derrick Brown, foreground left, with a stack, AA vs AJ vs KQ.
Gary Gelman puts his hand over his head, trying to find the decision against Cody Heushkel’s shove on 5. He passes…
…it’s the right choice. Cody flops make two pair to crack the button’s better ace.
Mike Assante doubles with 99, moving up to 4 m.
We take a short break at the end of this level.