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| Seat | Player | Chip Counts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phil Laak | 846,000 |
| 2 | Nick Binger | 453,000 |
| 3 | Bryce Yockey | 579,000 |
| 4 | Allen Kessler | 728,000 |
| 5 | Nick Schulman | 648,000 |
| 6 | Trevor Reader | 401,000 |
| 7 | Peter Charalambous | 181,000 |
| 8 | David Bach | 910,000 |
| 9 | Bjorn Verbakel | 371,000 |
| 10 | Brent Wheeler | 166,000 |
With our field reduced to ten players, the chips have been racked up, and the players have been moved over to the secondary featured table. It's the unofficial final, and they'll play for one more knockout to set the official final table.
Ah, but first! We've decided to take our dinner break about 45 minutes early, so the players have been sent off for one hour. We'll be back in action at 8:00 P.M.
Kirill Rabtsov was under the gun and moved all in for his last 43,000. Bryce Yockey made the call from the button, only to have Allen Kessler three-bet to 158,000 in the small blind. Yockey insta-folded and it was heads up.
Kessler: 
Rabtsov: 
"I folded kings," Yockey chimed in as the dealer put out the 
on the flop, which wasn't too kind to Rabtsov.
"Low," Rabtsov pleaded after the 
hit the turn to give him some hope for half the pot. Unfortunately for him, the 
blanked on the river. Rabtsov was eliminated from the tournament in 11th place.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminato |
With 84,000 in the pot and a board reading 
, Nick Schulman check-called a bet of 70,000 from Bryce Yockey. When the 
hit the river, Schulmn checked, Yockey bet all in for 203,000, and Schulman hit the tank. After two minutes, Schulman made the call.
"Flush," Yockey said as he turned over 
. Schulman double checked his cards before tossing them in the muck.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
630,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
||
|
620,000
-86,000
|
-86,000 |
|
||
Austin Marks opened his penultimate pot to 28,000, and Allen Kessler three-bet to 125,000. Marks took hardly any time to consider before surrendering.
On the next hand, Marks made the same open, this time from under the gun. Bryce Yockey three-bet him this time, making it 102,000 total. Marks had 142,000 to start the hand, and he moved all in to try for the double-up.
Showdown
Marks: 
Yockey: 
Neither player had a particularly premium hand, and Yockey in particular was surprised to see that he was in decent shape, even slightly ahead. And his hand would come out best in the end, too. The board ran through 
, and two pair gets the job done. Marks couldn't catch a piece of that board, and he's been eliminated in 12th place. That's good for a pay bump up to $25,874 for the young man in the Yankess hat.
We didn't catch all the preflop action, but we do know that Peter Levine was all in for his last 100,000 or so and up against Allen Kessler.
Levine: 
Kessler: 
Levine was at risk and watched as the flop came down 
, improving him to two pair. The 
turn gave Kessler a pair of queens and a flush draw to go along with his low draw, and much to Levine's dismay, the 
river completed both draws. Kessler scooped the pot with nut-nut as Levine made his way to the payout desk in 13th place.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
660,000
118,000
|
118,000 |
|
Eliminato |
We didn't catch the action, but we witnessed Brent Wheeler holding on a 
board. We do know that he doubled his stack of 108,000 through David "Doc" Sands, although we did not manage to get the latter's cards. Sands was left with just 10,000.
In the very next hand, Peter Charalambous raised from the cutoff and Sands called all in from the small blind.
Charalambous:
Sands: 
The board ran out 
and Sands hit the rail in 14th place.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
225,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
220,000
76,000
|
76,000 |
|
||
|
Eliminato | |
Alexander Dovzhenko raised to 42,000 under the gun only to have Bryce Yockey three-bet pot to 144,000. Nick Binger then called off for 86,000 while Dovzhenko called off for around 80,000 total.
Dovzhenko: 
Yockey: 
Binger: 
The put out a lot of possibilities, but it was the turn that gave Binger trips and a good lead. The 
river was also great for Binger, as it gave him the best low and allowed him to scoop the entire pot. As a result, Dovzhenko was eliminated from the tournament in 15th place.
| Giocatore | Chip | Avanzamento |
|---|---|---|
|
|
355,000
-83,000
|
-83,000 |
|
|
||
|
260,000
148,000
|
148,000 |
|
|
||
|
Eliminato | |
One thing we're keeping a good eye on this summer is the race to qualify for the new Epic Poker League, run by Federated Sports + Gaming. There were about a dozen players in the hunt coming into the Series, and one of them has just punched his Epic ticket.
Phil Laak was short by $20,298 for his 2-year B card. Making it to the final 15 players of this event will earn him at least $20,299, and he's officially gotten over the hump. By $1. But Laak has his sights set on bigger things today, it appears. Some recent chip movement puts him near the top of the counts, and even the dealers have been commenting about how unusually quiet and focused the Unabomber seems today.
The ticket is punched, but Laak likely only has one thing on his mind right now: bracelet number two.
| Player | Points | Cashes | Final Tables | Bracelets | Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Hellmuth | 710.25 | 5 | 3 | 0 | $1,591,004 |
| Ben Lamb | 659.05 | 4 | 3 | 1 | $1,331,832 |
| Brian Rast | 550 | 3 | 2 | 2 | $1,976,522 |
| Chris Moorman | 486.20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | $1,051,466 |
| Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier | 479.25 | 4 | 2 | 1 | $811,639 |
| Sam Stein | 416.13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | $731,279 |
| Joe Ebanks | 410.25 | 3 | 1 | 1 | $1,179,031 |
| Owais Ahmed | 408.03 | 5 | 2 | 1 | $764,997 |
| Mikhail Lakhitov | 401.80 | 5 | 2 | 1 | $851,058 |
| Jason Mercier | 385.33 | 5 | 3 | 1 | $696,438 |
| Mitch Schock | 364.81 | 5 | 3 | 1 | $406,018 |
| Sean Getzwiller | 343 | 3 | 2 | 1 | $672,627 |
*Through Event #55
