The final nine players have taken a short break and action will be underway shortly.

Dan Smith started out a recent hand by making it 53,000 preflop from the button. After the small blind folded action was on Noah Vaillancourt who three-bet to 128,000. Smith then countered by moving all in, and Vaillancourt made the call after a few seconds.

Smith:
Vaillancourt:

A flop gave Smith a pair of sixes, but they were still second best to Vaillancourt's eights. A on the turn actually gave Vaillancourt a straight flush. There was no card that could come that would save Smith, but a fell on the river none the less.

We are now at our official nine-handed final table, we will have official chip counts shortly.

Noah Vaillancourt	2,100,000	730,000
Dan Smith	0	-540,000

Noah Vaillancourt opened for 48,000 and Jamie Armstrong made it 125,000 from the button. The blinds released and Vaillancourt called. The flop came and both players checked. The turn came , Vaillancourt checked and Armstrong bet 88,000. Vaillancourt made a sloppy call and the river came . Both players checked and Vaillancourt tabled to take the pot.

The first few hands here at this final table of ten have consisted of raises preflop that end with the table folding. Joshua Fields and Jason Manggunio have also been pushing all in preflop and have taken down the blinds and antes with no show downs.

The final ten players have taken their seats and here are their counts.

Jamie Armstrong	2,400,000	-100,000
Noah Vaillancourt	1,370,000	-80,000
Jean-Louis Santoni	1,000,000	619,000
Michael Gathy	930,000	550,000
Eric Baldwin	900,000	180,000
Dan Smith	540,000	5,000
Joshua Field	360,000	-10,000
Eric Davis	320,000	-240,000
John Esposito	320,000	-68,000
Jason Manggunio	210,000	-135,000

Cards are now in the air on the Mother Ship, aka, the ESPN Main Stage.

Feature Table

The field is on their first break of the day. They will do a compete redraw and combine at ten players on the ESPN Main Stage in the Amazon Room.

On the very next hand after Derek Wolters was eliminated, we had an all in preflop situation between Michael Gathy and Hok-Leung Wong.

Wong:
Gathy:

The board ran [X] and Gathy made the straight to eliminate Wong.

Hok-Leung Wong

0

-270,000

We missed the preflop raising but the short story is that Derek Wolters and Jean-Louis Santoni had an all in preflop showdown.

Wolters:
Santoni:

Santoni came from behind right way when a jack spiked on the flop. The board ran and Wolters was eliminated.

Derek Wolters

0

-403,000

Dan Smith started the action by opened to 42,000 and Noah Vaillancourt raised to 93,000 from the cutoff. The blinds released and Smith re-raised to 177,000. Vaillancourt took some time to think and then called.

The flop came , Smith bet 146,000 and Vaillancourt called. But that took quite some time. The turn came which both players eventually checked. The river brought the , Smith checked and Vaillancourt bet 238,000 after an excruciatingly long tank. Smith folded rather quickly compared to the pace of the hand and Vaillancourt chipped up significantly.

All in all the hand took about ten minutes to play out.

Noah Vaillancourt	1,450,000	390,000
Dan Smith	535,000	-535,000

Joshua Field was on the button and opted to make it 40,000 to anyone who wanted to see a flop. Glen McCaffrey in the small blind then took a few moments before moving all in for about 340,000. Jamie Armstrong in the big blind then moved all in. Field quickly folded and we had a showdown.

Armstrong:
McCaffrey:

A board was exposed and McCaffrey was sent to the rail with 13th place's money.

Jamie Armstrong	2,500,000	600,000
Glenn McCaffrey	0	-240,000

Here is an update on how table #440 is fairing.

Jamie Armstrong	1,900,000	100,000
Eric Baldwin	720,000	-167,000
Eric Davis	560,000	33,000
Joshua Field	370,000	217,000
Jason Manggunio	345,000	-55,000
Glenn McCaffrey	240,000	-3,000

Randy Green managed to get all in versus Jamie Armstrong and looked to be in great shape to double up as he tabled . Armstrong could only counter with and needed some help if he wanted to knock out another player.

A board came out and the two jacks were enough to send the unfortunate Green home.

Jamie Armstrong	1,800,000	160,000
Randy Green	0	-270,000

Jonathan Poche opened a recent hand by moving all in from the cut off. Jamie Armstrong in the big blind completed the call and Poche was at risk.

Poche:
Armstrong:

After a board ran out Poche was eliminated and we were down to 14 players.

Jamie Armstrong	1,640,000	206,000
Jonathan Poche	0	-320,000

We caught up with this hand on the turn between Dan Smith and Jean-Louis Santoni. The board showed and Santoni bet 145,000. Smith called after a bit and the river came .

It took Santoni quite a bit of time to consider his action on the river. So much in fact John Esposito asked, "Is it someone's turn here?"

Santoni finally checked and Smith bet 263,000. Santoni took just a moment to fold.

Noah Vaillancourt opened for 33,000 and Derek Wolters called behind him. Hok-Leung Wong moved all in for the small blind for 112,000 more. Vaillancourt folded and Wolters called.

Wolters:
Wong:

The board ran out clean for Wong and he doubled up.

Derek Wolters	590,000	-275,000
Hok-Leung Wong	310,000	65,000

Eric Baldwin is one of the most dangerous players on the felt today. Take a look at What To Watch For.

Mitch Merritt was eliminated in unknown action.

Mitch Merritt

0

-388,000

William Fichman started a recent hand out by opening for 50,000. Action folded around to Jonathan Poche who moved all in for around 400,000. The action then came around to the short stacked Randy Green on the button who called and was all in for 70,000. Finchman also made the call and was at risk.

Poche:
Fichman:
Green:

After a flop was unleashed on the felt it was realized that no one was safe, and anyone could come away from this pot a winner. If Poche could hold he would deliver the double knock out, and we would be 15 handed. A on the river helped no one, but the on the river gave Green the straight and he was allowed to tripple up. Poche also managed to get a piece of the pot, and took the remainder of Fichman's stack as his pair of kings were still better than a pair of queens.

Fichman heads to the rail and is our 17th place finisher.

Jonathan Poche	320,000	60,000
Randy Green	270,000	174,000
William Fichman	0	-178,000