Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:14 PM Local Time
Matthew Ezrol and Jared Jaffee are heads up with a board showing and about 160,000 in the pot. Jaffee bets 52,000. Ezrol tanks and shoves all in for 168,000 and Jaffee snap calls.
Ezrol -
Jaffee -
The board completes with the . Jaffee takes it down with a flopped set of eights and Ezrol is eliminated.
Jared Jaffee - 780,000
Matthew Ezrol - Eliminated
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:14 PM Local Time
Alberto Bari raises to 14,000 and Eugen Fritzler three-bets the button to 36,000. Bari calls and then checks a flop.
Fritzler continues with a bet of 36,000 and Bari calls as the rolls off on the turn and he checks again.
Fritzler bets 70,000 and Bari calls before shoving all-in for 90,000 when the river lands the and Fritzler folds.
Bari shows his for a straight and scoops the pot to move to 390,000 while Fritzler slips to 640,000.
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:13 PM Local Time
Maxime Chilaud raises to 16,000 from the small blind and Andre Akkari calls from the big blind.
The flop falls . Chilaud bets 15,000 and Akkari calls.
The turn is the . Both players check.
The river is the . Chilaud checks. Akkari bets 27,000 and Chilaud calls.
Chilaud shows and Akkari mucks his cards.
Maxime Chilaud - 248,000
Andre Akkari - 303,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:11 PM Local Time
On a flop reading Timothy Moore checks from the big blind. Dmitry Kataev follows from middle position before Pim de Goede bets out 23,000 from the cut off. With the decision back on Moore he moves all in for 113,000 in chips. Kataev waits for a count before opting to fold his hand. De Goede then snap calls for his remaining 95,000.
Moore:
De Goede:
The board runs out the and to see de Goede hold with his pocket pair as he doubles up.
Pim de Goede - 220,000
Timothy Moore - 18,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:10 PM Local Time
Blake Bohn raises to 12,000 in the cutoff, and with action on Shane Klasnimi in the big blind, he shoves all-in. Bohn instantly calls and turns over . Klasnimi shows .
The board runs out to give Bohn trips and eliminate Klasnimi from play.
Blake Bohn - 455,000
Shane Klasnimi - Eliminated
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:06 PM Local Time
Tot Opie raises to 12,000 from middle position and Thomas Yates calls from the hijack. Action comes to Joe McKeehen in the cutoff and he three-bets to 34,000. The button and blinds fold and Opie does the same. Yates calls, leaving the two heads up to the flop.
The dealer fans and Yates checks. McKeehen announces an all in bet, putting Yates to the test for his last 68,000 in chips. Yates think for just under a minute before folding face up for a pair of queens. McKeehen takes the pot and increases his stack to about 1.49 million.
Joe McKeehen - 1,490,000
Thomas Yates - 68,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:05 PM Local Time
Jonathan Borenstein and Michael Cloud get into an all-in preflop confrontation. Borenstein is at risk for his last 122,000, and Cloud has only 20,000 more.
Borenstein:
Cloud:
The flop comes , giving Cloud top set and a virtual lock on the hand. The turn and river brick out. Cloud wins the pot, and Borenstein is eliminated. He earns $19,500 for his efforts.
Michael Cloud - 264,000
Jonathan Borenstein - Eliminated
Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:01 PM Local Time
The action folds around to the button, and Nikita Nikolaev raises to 12,000. From the small blind, Denny Grizzle three-bets to 33,000 and the big blind folds. Nikolaev calls and the pair see a flop.
Grizzle leads out with a bet of 45,000 and Nikolaev calls. The falls on the turn and Grizzle checks. Nikolaev bets 55,000 and Grizzle goes into the tank. After about a minute, he announces he is all in, for about 212,000. Nikolaev calls and flips for trip threes. Grizzle holds and is looking for a queen on the river.
But the river is the and Nikolaev will scoop the pot, eliminating Grizzle.
Nikita Nikolaev - 960,000
Denny Grizzle - Eliminated ($19,500)
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:55 PM Local Time
With the board showing Antonio Payne is all-in and at risk but with the current advantage, as he holds against his opponent's .
"Red, red!" Payne yells, standing in front of his seat shouting for his opponent to miss his flush draw.
He does, as the completes the board and locks up the double for Payne, who steps away from the table to give himself a subdued fist pump before returning to the table to stack his newly won chips and jump on his phone to update his fans on twitter about his double up.
"Always a sweat huh?" a player across the table says, joking that the only non-sweat hands involve "stone cold bluffs".
Payne doesn't seem to be bluffing anyone and is now peaking with just over a half million chips.
Antonio Payne - 525,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:54 PM Local Time
With approximately 80,000 in the pot and a board of , Donald Blum bets 27,000 only to find himself facing a raise from Brian Hastings to 115,000.
Blum thinks for several minutes, looks at his cards, grabs chips as if he is going to call, and takes a quick peek over at his neighbor. He folds, taps the table and says "I almost shoved."
Brian Hastings - 1,160,000
Donald Blum - 525,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:53 PM Local Time
Marco Johnson raises to 12,000 from under the gun and Phil Laak calls from the hijack. Shahriar Fahim moves all in from the big blind for 95,000 and Johnson quickly folds.
Laak inquires to Fahim about the strength of his hand. "This might be a race, and [Johnson] might have had one of your aces," says Laak.
After a few moments Laak folds, but not without saying, "I can't win the Main Event playing this tight," and laughs as Fahim takes the pot.
Shahriar Fahim - 130,000
Phil Laak - 377,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:53 PM Local Time
Mukul Pahuja raises to 14,000 from middle position, and Phil Hellmuth calls from the big blind. The flop comes , and Hellmuth checks. Pahuja continues for 8,000, and Hellmuth check-raises to 17,000. Pahuja calls, bringing the on the turn. Hellmuth bets 16,000, and Pahuja folds.
Phil Hellmuth - 148,000
Mukul Pahuja - 206,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:51 PM Local Time
Nicholas Abou Risk raises to 14,000 from mid position. Antonio Esfandiari calls from the big blind. The flop comes . Both players check and the turn comes . Esfandiari bets 17,000 and Abou Risk comes along. Fifth street brings the . Both players check the river. Esfandiari shows for two pair, nines and tens. Abou Risk mucks his cards and Esfandiari takes it down.
Antonio Esfandiari - 260,000
Nicholas Abou Risk - 315,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:50 PM Local Time
Henrik Tollefsen and Aaron Been are heads-up on a board. Tollefsen checks to Been, and Been bets 22,000. Tollefsen check-raises to 53,000, and the action is back on Been. Been takes a minute or so before he moves all-in. Tollefsen quickly calls all-in for 190,000 quickly.
Henrik Tollefsen:
Aaron Been:
Been needs a queen for a straight, or a diamond for a flush. But there's no help for him on turn, or river.
Henrik Tollefsen - 420,000
Aaron Been - 145,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:50 PM Local Time
Catching the action on the board of , Dimitry Chop checks to Shawn Nguyen and he bets 55,000.
Chop calls, and then checks the on the river as Nguyen bets out 85,000.
Chop folds and takes a hit down to 890,000 as Shawn Nguyen climbs to 1,050,000.
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:48 PM Local Time
Adam Dahlin raises to 13,000 in middle position, and Raul Mestre calls on the button. With action on Jonathan Gilliam in the small blind, he shoves all-in. Dahlin asks for a count and upon hearing the total, 59,000, Dahlin folds. Mestre calls on the button.
Raul Mestre:
Jonathan Gilliam:
Mestre remains in the lead with a pair of tens on the flop.
The turn and river do not improve Gilliam and he is eliminated from this year's Main Event.
Adam Dahlin - 100,000
Raul Mestre - 500,000
Jonathan Gilliam - Eliminated
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:42 PM Local Time
Khoa Nguyen opens for 13,000 and a short-stacked Ryan Riess moves all in. Nguyen thinks for a bit and folds and Riess stays alive.
Ryan Riess - 113,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:37 PM Local Time
Phil Hellmuth raises to 12,000 from the button, and the blinds both fold. Hellmuth wins the first hand back from break and is now up to 129,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:34 PM Local Time
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Saturday, July 11, 2015 2:19 PM Local Time
Level 16 concludes, and the players are taking a 20-minute break.
From the 661 players who started the day, 531 survived the first two-hour level. Amar Anand entered the day with the chip lead at 1.139 million, one of only three players with a seven-figure stack. Through one level of Day 4, at least ten players have had their hands on a million chips at some point, through a few of those have dipped back into six figures as the level comes to a close.
Michael Shanahan is the current chip leader, sitting atop the counts with 1.66 million. Shanahan began the day with just less than 800,000 chips, and his first level went about as smoothly as he could have hoped. He reached 1.1 million in a big hand against Brandon Adams, then passed 1.5 million with a runner-runner knockout about an hour into the day.
Daniel Negreanu had a good level, too. The six-time bracelet winner began the day with 444,000, and he quickly added to that at the hands of Ryan Teves. A few orbits later, he took a dent out Shanahan's towering stack, running down the nuts with queen-ten suited. Negreanu ended the level with 713,000 chips.
With the eliminations coming quickly, several of the short-stacked notables were unable to stay afloat. John Monnette got the last of his chips in with ace-seven against ace-king, and a king-high flop meant the end of his day. Chris Bjorn got his money in good with aces against ace-jack of hearts, but three more hearts on board sent Bjorin to the payout desk. Fellow bracelet winners Ben Volpe, Davidi Kitai and Vladimir Shchemelev were also eliminated before the first break.
Jonathan Duhamel, the 2010 Main Event champion, was eliminated by Shawn Keller. Duhamel took his stand with king-queen, and he was unable to overcome Keller’s ace-seven on a board that ran out ace-high. His exit leaves four former Main Event champions still alive: Phil Hellmuth (112,000), Jim Bechtel, Joe Hachem, and Ryan Riess (89,500).
Apart from Riess, there are another seven former November Niners still alive, too: Matt Jarvis, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (343,000), John Racner, Andoni Larrabe, Anton Makiievskyi (412,500), JC Tran (277,000), and Scott Montgomery (697,000).
Play resumes in 20 minutes.