Joe Lucero and Robert Stocklmeier were just eliminated in short succession to bring the field down to 27. A full redraw for the final three tables is in the haps and the new seat draw will be posted momentarily.
Joe Lucero and Robert Stocklmeier were just eliminated in short succession to bring the field down to 27. A full redraw for the final three tables is in the haps and the new seat draw will be posted momentarily.
Joe Lucero saw action folded to him on the button and shoved all in, receiving a call from Doug Jones in the big blind.
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Lucero Found a sweat on the flop ![]()
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, giving him outs to an open-ended straight, but was unable to fill up on the turn
and river
to result in his elimination.
Andrew Peragallo was standing up from his seat and gathering his belongings as his hand of ![]()
was in the process of being mucked to spell the end of his tournament life.
Peragallo was on the button and had lost to Luis Rosa, who was in middle position and had the pot sent his way for his winning hand of ![]()
tabled on a board of ![]()
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, hitting a straight to take him over 2 million.
The following players finished 37-45th place ($1,076).
Alex Montoya opened to 145,000 under the gun and James Chmilousky three-bet all in for 535,000 from the hijack. Action got back to Montoya and he thought for close to a minute before folding ![]()
face up.
"Good fold," said Chmilousky, showing ![]()
to earn him the pot, giving him more than a 40% increase to his stack by taking down the pot without showdown.
Two players were lost before the break and 35 now remain. Here's an update on the chip counts across the final four tables.
Level: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
The 37 remaining players are on another 15-minute break.
A total of 426,000 was being counted out of his opponent's stack to match the amount Matthew Frisch had left in his stack, paying him off for a double he had just earned.
Frisch's hand of ![]()
was still visible on a board of ![]()
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and he was paid for his winner.
The following players finished 46-54th place ($978).