Event 18 (Day 3)

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante (4:17 remaining)
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  24
Average Chips:  1.79 million

Day 4 begins at 12 noon with 24 returning players.  The seat draw will be posted in the morning, but the chip counts are below.

Liam He – 5,630,000
Oleg Shnaider – 5,020,000
Erkut Yilmaz – 3,065,000
Dhaval Joshi – 2,700,000
Anthony Maio – 2,550,000
Nick Pupillo – 2,535,000
Austin Wentling – 2,520,000
Michael Wang – 1,845,000
Aaron Kweskin – 1,750,000
Almedin Imsirovic – 1,695,000
Greg Himmelbrand – 1,520,000
John Lakatosh – 1,425,000
Chris Grove – 1,400,000
Millard Hale – 1,365,000
TK Miles – 1,285,000
Rick Lee – 1,270,000
Ryan Jones – 1,195,000
Ben Diebold – 1,120,000
Maria Konnikova – 725,000
Trevor Savage – 610,000
John Cosgrove – 430,000
Frank Stepuchin – 425,000
Joe Liberta – 405,000
Noeung Troeung – 395,000

Last batch of bust-outs:

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante (4:17 remaining)
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  24
Average Chips:  1.79 million

Soheb Porbandarwala – 25th Place ($17,326)

Soheb Porbandarwala got his chips in with pocket Aces, but Erkut Yilmaz had flopped a set of 9s.  No help for Soheb and he was felted in 25th place ($17,326).

That brought the player count down to 24, which ends the night.

The clock was stopped with just over 4 minutes remaining in the level.  The final 24 players are bagging their chips for the night.  They’ll return at 12 noon for Day 4 and play down to the final six.

A redraw will be done overnight and new seat assignments will be posted in the morning along with chip counts.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  25
Average Chips:  1.72 million

Christopher Doan – 26th Place ($17,326)

Austin Wentling flopped a set of 4s against Christopher Doan, whose KJ had flopped top pair.  All the chips went in on the turn and it was over for Chris.  He finished 26th.

Austin chipped up to ~2.3 million.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  26
Average Chips:  1.7 million

Rafael Ferreria Oliveira – 27th Place ($17,239)

Rafael Ferreria Oliveira got his last chips in holding A9 against the AJ of Nick Pupillo.  The bigger Ace was good and Nick took the pot, chipping up to a bit more than 2 million.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  27
Average Chips:  1.6 million

Dan Howe

TK Miles (bb) flopped a double-gutter and got there on the turn, making a straight to crack Dan Howe ‘s pocket Aces.  After doubling him up, Dan was left very short-stacked and busted out soon after.

For his 28th place finish, he earned $17,326.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  28
Average Chips:  1.5 million

Adnan Mohammad – 29th Place ($17,239)

Adnan Mohammad’s last hand was AQ and he was flipping against Soheb Porbandarwala’s 77.  Adnan lost the flip and was felted in 29th place.  Soheb’s stacking ~1.1 million.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  29
Average Chips:  1.48 million

Kyle Kenney

Kyle Kenney got his last chips in the middle holding A6 offsuit, running into Oleg ‘the destroyer’ Shnaider’s pocket Tens in the small blind.  The pair held up and Oleg took the pot, chipping up to more than 4 million.

Kyle busted in 30th place, earning $17,326.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  30
Average Chips:  1.43 million

Vinny Pahuja

Vinny Pahuja moved all-in for ~360,000 and Greg Himmelbrand looked him up from the big blind.  Vinny’s was ahead of Greg’s .  The the board came Q 8 4 J Q pairing Greg and shipping him the pot.  He’s up to ~1.5 million.

Vinny, who is a BorgataPoker.com sponsored pro, finished in 31st place, earning $17,326.

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  32
Average Chips:  1.34 million

John Lakatosh

On table 5, Frank Stepuchin opened utg for 55,000, then John Lakatosh made it 135,000 from the cutoff.  Sheddy Siddiqui thought about it, burned one of his Time chips, then jammed from the button for 650,000 total.  Frank folded and John called all-in for 615,000.  His was way ahead of Sheddy’s .

The board came [h] and John doubled up to ~1.4 million.

Sheddy was left with only 35,000 and busted out soon after.  For his 32nd place finish, he will collect $17,326.

Mohammad ‘Sheddy’ Siddiqui

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Level 23: Blinds 15,000/25,000/25,000 BB Ante
Total Entries: 1,075
Remaining:  32
Average Chips:  1.34 million

Athanasios Polychronopoulos

Athanasios Polychronopoulos got his last chips in holding AJ, only to run into the pocket Aces of Liam He.  The Aces held and He chipped up to ~5 million.

Athanasios busted out in 33rd place, earning $14,769.

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