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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:37 PM Local Time
After racing off the 1000 chips, the players will be on a dinner break. Play will resume in approximately 75 minutes.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:26 PM Local Time
Five players remain with an average stack of 720,000.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:23 PM Local Time
Bart Tichelman had the button in seat 7. John Devia raised to 80,000. Action folded around to Tichelman who reraised to 240,000. Devia made the call and it was heads-up to the flop of
. Devia led out for 160,000 and Tichelman moved all in. Devia folded and Tichelman took down the pot.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:10 PM Local Time
Bart Tichelman had the button in seat 7. John Devia made a raise to 85,000 from under the gun. Mark Garner reraised all in for 230,000 from the cutoff seat. Devia insta-called and the players showed:
Devia:
Garner:
Garner was quite dominated and would need serious help to stay alive. The community cards missed Garner as they came
and he was eliminated in sixth place. Garner will walk away with $64,880 for his strong finish here today.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:05 PM Local Time
Mark Garner had the button in seat 6. Action folded around to Bart Tichelman in the small blind who raised to 90,000. Donald Nicholson reraised all in from the big blind and Tichelman made the call for his remaining 446,000. The players showed:
Tichelman:
Nicholson:
The board missed Nicholson as it filled out
. Bart Tichelman doubled up to just over 900,000 and is now the chip leader.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:04 PM Local Time
In slightly over 100 hands of play, not a single player has limped into a pot from a non-blind position. Every player who had entered a pot from a non-blind position has done so with a raise or a re-raise.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:59 PM Local Time
Bart Tichelman won the last two pots with a preflop raise of 90,000.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:57 PM Local Time
Action folded around to Donald Nicholson in the small blind. He raised to 95,000. Ben Sabrin folded his big blind and Nicholson could only smile and nod as he flipped over the
.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:50 PM Local Time
Ben Sabrin had the button in seat 2 and he raised to 90,000. Giovanni Marcacci made the call from the big blind. The flop came
. Both players checked. The turn brought the
. Marcacci moved all in and Sabrin passed. Marcacci took down the pot which was, as stated by the tournament director, the 100th hand of play at this final table.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:39 PM Local Time
Giovanni Marcacci had the button in seat 4. Action folds around to Ryan Young who moved all in for 229,000. Giovanni Marcacci made the call and the players showed:
Marcacci:
Young:
The board bricked for Young, filling out
and he was eliminated in 7th place earning himself $51,904 in the process.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:38 PM Local Time
It has just been announced that there will be a dinner break at the completion of this level.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:36 PM Local Time
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:20 PM Local Time
Here are the players' current chip counts.
Ben Sabrin - 525,000
John Devia - 704,000
Giovanni Marcacci - 429,000
Mark Garner - 296,000
Bart Tichelman - 512,000
Donald Nicholson - 906,000
Ryan Young - 232,000
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:16 PM Local Time
Play will resume in 20 minutes.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:11 PM Local Time
Don Nicholson had the button in seat 8. Action folded around to Ryan Young in the small blind and he completed. Ben Sabrin checked his option. The flop comes
. Both players checked. The turn came the
. Again both men checked. The
hit the river. Young checked and Sabrin declared "King High." Young turned up
for two pair. Ryan Young took down the pot.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:59 PM Local Time
We haven't seen a showdown since Marcacci doubled through Ben Sabrin. A huge majority of the pots have been won preflop, with the occasional winner being a result of a continuation bet on the flop.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:32 PM Local Time
John Devia had the button in seat 3. Ben Sabrin raised to 57,000 from the cutoff seat and Giovanni Marcacci re-raised all in for 165,000 total. Sabrin went into the tank, at one point mumbling "108 more huh?...108 more?" A few moments later, Sabrin declared "why do I hate math sometimes? well the math is telling me I have to call" as he pushed out 108,000 more chips. The players turned up:
Marcacci:
Sabrin:
The flop gave Marcacci even more outs coming down
. The turn was uneventful as it dropped the
. Despite Sabrin's persistent chant of "red four...red four!" the dealer layed the
on the river giving Marcacci the nut flush and the pot. Giovanni Marcacci stacked the chips as he doubled through Ben Sabrin.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:29 PM Local Time
With just under four and a half hours of play completed, only two players have been eliminated. Tournament officials have joked that "at this pace...we'll be here all night."
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:26 PM Local Time
Donald Nicholson had the button in seat 8. Mark Garner moved all in for 161,000 from late position. Donald Nicholson thought a while before finally calling. All other players folded and the men showed:
Nicholson:
Garner:
Garner paired his queen on the flop and although Nicholson turned an open-ended straight draw, it never came. Garner doubled through Nicholson
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:23 PM Local Time
Josh Arieh, who finished 17th in this event, just stopped by to catch a glimpse of the action. If you recall Arieh got it all in good preflop holding two kings against the pocket tens of John Devia. Devia spiked a ten on the river to end Arieh's quest of the championship.