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End of Level 23: Blinds 12,000/24,000/3,000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 22
Average Chips: 442,455
Wounded by Morris, BJ Miller on 1 just took another hit, this time from Robert Levi.
Miller waits for the button, but it’s Levi, lurking in the foreground left, who has the bad news, under the gun.
Levi opens to 55,000 from UTG and is flatted by the button. From the small, BJ ships his stack with 
, only to have Levi follow suit.
The button tank folds, and BJ gets the bad news – Levi has the Birds – 
.
No queen, and Robert gets a double. He’s nearing 700,000 but BJ is crippled to under ten bigs.
Levi recovers. The aces help him get over getting cooled off by Wayne on his right, Levi had peeled with bottom pair, hit trips, and was drawing to one out against a set.
Meanwhile, Jay Morris continues to climb – she’s past 1,500,000, and then – more.
BJ picks up 
with his last two blinds and puts them in agaisnt a fellow short stack’s shove in the 8 seat. Jaye, however, as is her style, had limped in, and now called – that has to be bad news if you are paying attention.
Indeed, the stars were not aligned for BJ Miller today, because his outs were rapidly disappearing – the other in position short stack had as well.
Miller, again in trouble. The big stack Faye Morris takes both tiny stacks.
Faye fades the few aces and kings in the deck and knocks them both out with 
.
She now has over 1,700,000.
Demidenko rising.
Meanwhile, Sergey Demidenko, who just ordered drinks for the “table of sharks,” has felted an adversary. He picked up aces and got the money in on the flop against a draw.
Sergey rises to 1,000,000 and is the second big stack.
Now on break and returning just before 1:00 AM.
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Level 22: Blinds 10,000/20,000/3000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 25
Average Chips: 392,000
Tournament players learn to be aggressive – and that’s working out well for Jaye Morris.
In one hand, BJ Miller showed down a pair to go with the one on the board. He was a little disheartened to discover Jaye had checked over tens full, hoping he’d bite.
Still, a good pot for Jaye.
Read them and weap: Jaye Morris.
Then, taking her time, she limps from LP with 
. Here in position opponent seems eager to limp in too.
He takes his turn value cutting himeself with a flop bet after she flop top pair.
Jaye is at 1,000,000 and ahead of the rising stacks on 3, which Sergey called “the table of sharks.”
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Level 21: Blinds 8000/16000/2000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 27
Average Chips: 262,000
- $14,583
- 8,156
- 4,943
- 3,955
- 2,966
- 2,472
- 1,977
- 1,483
- 1,112
- – 12. 989 13. – 15. 865 16. – 18. 741
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Level 21: Blinds 8000/16000/2000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 27
Average Chips: 262,000
On 3, Katie Stone just finished stacking a pot that put her at nearly exactly 800,000.
Katie opened 
and flatted by the button.
She hit the nut flush draw on 
, and decided got in a check raise to 85,000, which was called.
Seeing a likely brick on the turn of another four, she shoved and was snapped off by an ambitious 
, clearly hoping she had the kind of hand she did.
Right or wrong, Katie hit a spade for the nut flush and now is near even with Jaye Morris for the chip lead.
Afterwards, the table discussed the action pot, and even drew Sergey Demidenko’s attention on adjacent 2.
Meanwhile, Demidenko, 525,000 moves to table 3 as well. That’s Katie two seats down.
We’re now at three tables – the bubble is coming.
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Level 20: Blinds 6000/12000/2000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 35
Average Chips: 280,000
As we head toward the money, Jaye Morris continues to grow her stack.
Now on 4, Jaye has 810,000.
Meanwhile, Ron gambles again – this time for his tournament life. He makes two live cards work, K10 vs. AQ.
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Level 19: Blinds 5000/10000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 44
Average Chips: 222,727
As the table five changed composition, with Pokermantis moved, a shortie busted, and Shaotong Chang moving into the 1 seat, the demeanor had completely changed.
Always serious Monro Secor opened from under the gun to 20,000 at 4/8, and Bob Flacco immediately called from the field – likely a very playable hand to expose himself to the three bet this way.
Secor opens, and Flacco, foreground, calls, but the blind needs some time, seeming to consider all three options.
The rest folded, but completing the action was not easy for the big blind. He seemed pained, and finally called. Three players in the pot and already this hand was a tad tense and slow to develop.
On 
, with straight and flush draws available, the tormented blind checked it over to Monro. Secor appeared to want to bet, then decided instead to shove for his remaining stack – a fairly significant overbet.
Flacco got the count and took his time, he went through his stack, counting everything down. Clearly he did not believe Secor, who can be aggressive.
Monro, about to shove into Flacco, seat 1.
However, he pitched in his cards after a good two minutes.
Then the big blind needed time as well. The table, joking a level before, had not said a word the entire time.
Eventually, the big folded, and the hands remained a mystery. However, it’s big pot for Secor nontheless, turning his 127,000 into more than 175,000 with a showdown.
Meanwhile on 1, a more animated debate. Ron Alina took a gamble with an ace-rag versus a short stack, crying out for an ace to save him on the river. But the shortstack wasn’t having any of it.
Alina, not at risk, gets up to see if he can get there. A6 vs. 108 for seat 7, foreground.
“You’ve won enough flips! C’mon.”
Alina smiles and sits down, losing about 32,000.
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Level 18: Blinds 4000/8000/1000
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 44
Average Chips: 222,727
Jaye Morris on 7 has over 550,000, eclipsing Lee Fama two seats to her right.
Sergey Demidenko has 510,000 on two. Wooyang Lin and Mike Marder flank him.
John Wilson and Katie Stone, both on 3, each have 450,000.
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Level 17: Blinds 3000/6000/500
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 57
Average Chips: 171,930
Tables three four and five have been accumulating stacks – including chip leader Josh Wilson who has moved to Katie Stone’s table – but somehow no one on five has anything to work with.
In one hand Dennis Belcher went in blind against Bob Flacco’s open with 
. Dennis woke up with a hand, however, , and the board ran out him out a straight.
Belcher, right, gambles for a small double.
Dennis now again get it in, this time against Yehuda Lieberman’s last blinds, and makes top pair. However, the river gives Lieberman’s a set, and Belcher’s initial celebration turns sour.
The Pokermantis is also looking for the right spot for those 15 blinds. Belcher on his left.
Then Flacco opens from the button, but can’t get any action. He flashes the 
to confirm he had something to work with.
Then Yehudi has an announcement, he tells everyone. Acting as if he is about to shove his twenty blinds, he folds.
Lieberman gets the open right.
Then Yehudi opens for an incorrect sizing, and Flacco, in the blinds, seems to have a decision. He makes Lieberman put out the right amount, then smiles and folds.
Lotsa jokes, but not many blues or reds to go around.
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Level 15: Blinds 2500/5000/500
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 68
Average Chips: 144,118
We are back.
As the break began, a little insanity erupted on table 4, featuring a opens, calls, and at least one back raise all in.
Let’s just get it all over with – half the table about to go all in. Seat 8 has a tough decision with two nines.
A mess for the poor dealer. A10 wins against 99, QQ, and yes, fades the 84ss.
Can you tell he won? Adi Lip over 300,000 now after binking the main pot. QQ takes the sidepot from 99 sustains only moderate damage.
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End of Level 15: Blinds 2000/4000/400
Entrants: 196
Players Remaining: 70
Average Chips: 140,000
Katie Stone is well ahead on table 3 – 365,000.
Josh Wilson is chip leader, with over 470,000. “Too many,” reports Nihal Advani on his right.
Nihal gets it in. “Am I live? Yes!” He survives with an unlikely chop.
Expert pot control: Shaotong Chang check calls a drawing board and shows down two kings on seven. She is healthy with an average stack.
We return at 8:25 from dinner.