Event #31: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Hand #26: Aleksandr Gofman raised to 60,000 and won the blinds and antes when Matt Stout and Peter Gould folded in the blinds.

Hand #27: Robert Schmidt raised to 60,000 and won the pot preflop.

Hand #28: Schmidt raised to 60,000 and Stout three-bet to 145,000 from the cutoff. Schmidt let it go.

Hand #29: Brett Shaffer got a walk in the big blind.

Hand #30: Stout raised to 70,000 and Rob Wazwaz and Schmidt called. The flop came down     and Stout bet out 110,000, winning the hand when both of his opponents folded.

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Hand #11: Brett Shaffer raised to 50,000, Robert Schmidt made the call, and Peter Gould tagged along as well. The flop came    . Gould and Shaffer checked and Schmidt bet out 65,000. Gould called and Shaffer let go of his hand. The turn was the   and both players checked. The river delivered the   and Gould bet out 81,000 to take down the pot.

Hand #12: Jim Jakobsen opened to 80,000, and won the blinds and antes.

Hand #13: Gould opened to 65,000, RJ Sullivan moved all in for 600,000 out of the small blind, and Gould folded.

Hand #14: Action folded around to Rajaee Wazwaz, in the small blind, who opened to 80,000. Schafer then three-bet-shoved all in, and Wazwaz folded.

Hand #15: Aleksandr Gofman opened to 60,000, Gould three-bet from the hijack to 130,000, and Gofman called. The dealer fanned a     flop, Gofman checked, Gould bet 90,000, Gofman raised to 240,000, Gould moved all in and Gofman folded.

Hand #9: Peter Gould raised to 65,000 and won the blinds and antes.

Hand #10: Aleksandr Gofman raised to 60,000 and Matt Stout made the call. The flop came    . Stout checked, Gofman bet 60,000 and Stout called. The   came on the turn. Both players checked and the river came the  . Stout bet out 90,000 and Gofman called. Stout revealed    and Gofman won the hand when he showed    for a pair of nines to go with the twos on the board.

Hand #1: Brett Shaffer raised to 50,000 and won the blinds and antes.

Hand #2: Aleksandr Gofman raised to 50,000 and Jim Jakobsen three-bet to 155,000 and won the pot.

Hand #3: Matt Stout raised to 56,000 and Jason Vanstrom pushed all in. Stout made the call and we had a race.

Stout:   
Vanstrom:   

Stout's pair were better by a small margin, and when the board fell      , his pair held as the best hand. Vanstrom was eliminated in ninth place and earned himself $29,658.

RJ Sullivan raised it up to 50,000 from middle position and Steven McNally took a minute before pushing his stack all in from the big blind. Sullivan made the call with the bigger stand and McNally's tournament was at risk, though he was way ahead preflop.

Sullivan:   
McNally:   

McNally was safe and looking to double on the flop of     as well as the turn of   and his rail was excitedly anticipating his big double. Then Sullivan spiked the   on the river and McNally's supporters erupted with a loud, "Oh!"

McNally was eliminated in 10th place and earned $23,317 for his run.

Ronald Sullivan	1,191,000	201,000
Steven McNally	0	-460,000

In the very first hand after break, Matt Stout pushed all in from middle position after Robert Schmidt opened under the gun. Schmidt made the call and the race was on.

Stout:   
Schmidt:   

Stout was needing to connect somehow to catch up to the pocket pair, and the flop of     was no help. The turn   was the wrong card for him, but the   on the river saved him from elimination.

Robert Schmidt	1,370,000	365,000
Matt Stout	920,000	594,000

With fresh beers in the hands of his supporters on the rail, Steven McNally pushed all in from under the gun and found a call in Ronald Sullivan from middle position. Everyone else gave up their hands and we had a race.

Sullivan:   
McNally:   

The board ran out       and McNally scored the big double with his nines.

"Ahhh, that would've sucked if you busted just as we got these beers," his rail said.

"Yeah, these taste so much better now that you just doubled up," another supporter said.

Ronald Sullivan	990,000	-60,000
Steven McNally	580,000	225,000

Steven McNally pushed all in from middle position and Michael Souza came over the top from the cutoff before all other players folded their hands.

McNally:   
Souza:   

Souza was in need of some help if he were to survive the hand, as he had the shorter stack. The board ran out       and he didn't find any of the cards he needed. Souza was eliminated in 11th place for $36,975.

As we are now 10-handed, players have been combined and are taking seats on the feature table. We'll have a seating chart with chip stacks shortly.

Steven McNally	355,000	35,000
Michael Souza	0	-310,000

Aleksandr Gofman pushed his stack in from the button when action folded to him, and Eric Spitzer called in the big blind.

Gofman:   
Spitzer:   

Spitzer looked to be giving up a a chunk of his stack, and when the board fell      , Gofman's double was secured.

Aleksandr Gofman	940,000	355,000
Eric Spitzer	560,000	-114,000