Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Players are on break.
Stephen Zipprich stuck the last 55,000 in from the hijack and Michael Rankins reshoved on the button with ![]()
. Zipprich needed help with ![]()
but the board brought nothing for him.
Stephen Zipprich checked a ![]()
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flop from the small blind and then called Steve Wilkie's 100,000 bet from early position. Both players checked the
, and the river was a
. Zipprich checked and Wilkie instantly moved all in. It was about 250,000.
"You know you can't win unless you bet," Zipprich mused after a couple of minutes in the tank.
Someone called a clock, and Zipprich called just before the end of the countdown. Wilkie showed ![]()
for a wheel, and Zipprich slapped down ![]()
.
Brian Hou was all in for about 180,000 in middle position and Leonardo Valenzuela was in the tank in the big blind. After about a minute, he flicked in a chip.
Hou: ![]()
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Valenzuela: ![]()
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The ![]()
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flop gave Hou a shot to chop but the
and
didn't quite do it for the defending champ.
Level: 21
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
In what looked to be a three-bet pot, Leonardo Valenzuela checked in middle position on ![]()
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. Brian Hou bet 55,000 or so from the cutoff into about 200,000, and Valenzuela announced all in. Hou's cards were instantly in the muck.
Valenzuela turned over ![]()
.
"All right, no more showing," he said.
Caleb Meyer got his last 225,000 or so in with ![]()
but ran into the ![]()
held by Tony Piazza. When Meyer couldn't catch up, he collected an 18th-place payout ticket.
Stephen Tanner shoved for 92,000 in middle position and Sam Benavram had him at risk with ![]()
on the button. Tanner was dominated with ![]()
but he liked the ![]()
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flop as he picked up a pair and a gutter. Running queens sent him to the rail though.