$350 Big Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Single Re-Entry)Level 26: 15,000/30,000/5,000 Ante 1a655
With 12 players remaining, there was a three-way preflop all-in situation. Here were their cards in descending order of chip counts:
Conley Howard: 
Brian Herzfeld: 
Allan Bieler: 
The board came 
, and Howard’s aces were never in much danger as they held up to win the pot, eliminating both players. The final 10 then redrew for random seats at a single table.
After a few minutes, there was almost another three-way all-in situation.
Jeffrey Trudeau, Sr. moved all in under the gun for 215,000, and Steve Karp called from the hijack. James Mankowski tanked for a while in the big blind before folding J-J face up. It turned out to be the correct play, as Karp showed 
and Trudeau turned over 
.
The board came 
— Karp flopped a set of kings to win the pot and eliminate Trudeau in 10th place. (And everyone notices that Mankowski would have rivered a jack-high straight if he had called.)
That pot propelled Karp to more than a million in chips, and it officially set the nine-handed final table as they headed to a 15-minute break. Here are their official chip counts:
Seat 1. Sean Stoll – 180,000 (6 bb)
Seat 2. Mark Gaudino – 110,000 (4 bb)
Seat 3. Oktay Altiabas – 560,000 (19 bb)
Seat 4. Robert Chusid – 345,000 (12 bb)
Seat 5. Steve Karp – 1,220,000 (41 bb)
Seat 6. Eric Wert – 205,000 (7 bb)
Seat 7. Conley Howard – 500,000 (17 bb)
Seat 8. Mathew Ferrante – 560,000 (19 bb)
Seat 9. James Mankowski – 375,000 (13 bb)
This is the remaining prizepool they’re playing for, followed by a summary of the recent eliminations:
1st: $22,680
2nd: $13,365
3rd: $7,695
4th: $6,237
5th: $4,860
6th: $4,050
7th: $3,240
8th: $2,430
9th: $1,620
10th: Jeffrey Trudeau, Sr. – $1,053
11th: Brian Herzfeld – $1,053
12th: Allan Bieler – $1,053
13th: Mike Telker – $891
14th: Bryan Munoz – $891
15th: Dan Heimiller – $891
16th: Joseph Duchman – $810
17th: Jorge Gomez – $810
18th: Eric Piderit – $810