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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 1:02 PM Local Time
From middle position, Brandon Blake open-raised to 60,000. Action folded to Grant Hinkle in the big blind, who moved all in for about 260,000. Blake tanked for three minutes before making the call. All the drama was for naught, however, as each player held ace-queen and the board bricked out.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:56 PM Local Time
Mat Kearney open-raised from middle position to 50,000. Josh Engerdahl, sitting in the big blind, was the only caller. Both players checked a power flop of
. On a turn of
, Engerdahl bet 75,000. Kearney cut a large stack of green 25,000-chips from his stack before raising to 200,000. Engerdahl instantly folded.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:44 PM Local Time
On the second hand on Green #14, Elia Ahmadian moved all in from the small blind and was snap-called by Theo Tran in the big blind. Ahmadian sheepishly turned over
and was in bad shape against Tran's pocket kings. A flop of
gave him some hope, but the turn
and river
were no help. Ahmadian is the first casualty of the day. He earns $30,569.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:38 PM Local Time
On the first hand of play, action folded around to Chris Ferguson on the button. He raised to 60,000. The small blind passed but the big blind went into the tank, thinking for well over a minute before finally knocking the table and folding. Ferguson flipped over two red jacks.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:33 PM Local Time
The cards are in the air! There are 50 minutes remaining in level 20.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:25 PM Local Time
The final 18 players are unbagging their chips and getting ready for action. Some look well rested, others do not. We'll see what effect, if any, the short break had on the focus and stamina of these players. The cards will be in the air soon so please, stay with us.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 6:48 AM Local Time
Join us today at 1:30 pm for an extended final in Event #2, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Original plans to play all the way down to the final nine had to be scrapped as 6am approached and 18 players remained in the hunt, and a large majority of the surviving players voted to adjourn and return today.
Aaron Coulthard, with 1,327,000 in chips, holds the lead entering the final day's play, with Theo Tran, James Akenhead and Matthew Kearney each also above the million-chip mark.
Here are the seat assignments, home towns (where listed) and chip counts for each of the 18 players:
Table 14:
Seat 1: Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA) 600,000
Seat 2: Elia Ahmadian (Chantilly, VA) 171,000
Seat 3: Theo Tran (Las Vegas, NV) 1,199,000
Seat 4: David Bach (Athens, GA) 168,000
Seat 5: James Akenhead (London, UK) 1,039,000
Seat 6: Eric Hicks (San Francisco, CA) 703,000
Seat 7: Perry Friedman (Las Vegas, NV) 653,000
Seat 8: Joe Rutledge (Pasadena, TX) 486,000
Seat 9: Ferguson (Pacific Palisades, CA) 444,000
Table 15:
Seat 1: Josh Engerdahl (Abbotsford, BC) 930,000
Seat 2: Melvin Jones (Chicago, IL) 660,000
Seat 3: Mike Ngo (New Orleans, LA) 544,000
Seat 4: Grant Hinkle (Kansas City, KS) 281,000
Seat 5: Matthew Kearney 1,024,000
Seat 6: Jeff Wiedenhoeft (Whitewater, WI) 482,000
Seat 7: Brandon Blake (Palmer, AK) 514,000
Seat 8: Aaron Coulthard (Waterloo, ON) 1,327,000
Seat 9: Frank Sinopoli (Hollywood, CA) 165,000