$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’emLevel 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante Players Remaining: 9 of 93 Average Stack: 103,000 (51 bb) 2m3r6c

Vincent DeVita raised all in from under the gun for 28,100, John Rembert called from the cutoff, and Nancy Birnbaum called from the big blind.

The flop fell and Birnbaum shoved for about 48,000. Rembert folded face up.

Birnbaum:
Rembert:

The turn and river completed the board, further improving Birnbaum to kings and jacks to score the elimination and the bounty.

Nancy Birnbaum – 132,000 (66 bb)
John Rembert – 156,000 (78 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 14: 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 93
Average Stack: 93,000 (46 bb)

With the eliminations of Robert Nielsen (11th – $569), Jeffrey Wilcox (12th – $569), and Leo Birov (13th – $518), the unofficial final table is set. Here are the seating assignments and approximate chip counts.

Seat 1: Vincent DeVita -30,000 (15 bb)
Seat 2: Thomas Cuce -112,000 (56 bb)
Seat 3: Mark Manesh -40,000 (20 bb)
Seat 4: Richard Wetter -70,000 (35 bb)
Seat 5: Matt Yorra -115,000 (57 bb)
Seat 6: Steven Richardson -70,000 (35 bb)
Seat 7: John Rembert -165,000 (82 bb)
Seat 8: Jorge Gomez -140,000 (70 bb)
Seat 9: Eric Becks – 120,000 (60 bb)
Seat 10: Nancy Birnbaum – 68,000 (34 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 93
Average Stack: 71,500 (44 bb)

Jorge Gomez raised to 4,200 from middle position and Matt Yorra called from the hijack.

The flop fell and Gomez continued for 5,000. Yorra called to see the turn where Gomez bet 10,000. Yorra raised all in for 54,200 and Gomez called.

Gomez:
Yorra:

Both players flopped sets, but Yorra had the better of it. The river was the , safe for Yorra to double up and take the chip lead with 13 players remaining.

Matt Yorra – 120,200 (75 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 48,000 (30 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 13 of 93
Average Stack: 71,500 (44 bb)

Eric Becks raised to 4,000 from middle position, Brian Canin reraised all in from the cutoff for about 29,500, and Becks called.

Becks:
Canin:

The board ran out , not enough help to Canin, locking up the bounty for Becks and making Canin the bubble boy.

Eric Becks – 94,000 (58 bb)
Brian Canin – Eliminated on the money bubble

$130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em
Level 1: 50/100
Entries: 13

Cards are in the air for Event 4, a $130 Deep Stack Turbo No Limit Hold’em. Levels are 15 minutes long and players begin with a stack of 20,000. Registration is open until the start of Level 13 (roughly 9:10 pm).

Here is a link to the structure sheet.

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 13: 800/1,600 with a 200 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 93
Average Stack: 66,400 (41 bb)

The remaining players are in the midst of a 40-minute dinner break.

Play resumes at about 6:15pm and will continue with hand-for-hand play until the money bubble bursts.

Table 40
Seat 1: Eric Becks – 62,500 (39 bb)
Seat 2: Jeffrey Wilcox – 67,000 (41 bb)
Seat 3: Brian Canin – 24,000 (15 bb)
Seat 4: Nancy Birnbaum – 42,500 (26 bb)
Seat 5: John Rembert – 106,000 (66 bb)
Seat 6: Thomas Cuce – 56,500 (35 bb)
Seat 7: Robert Nielsen – 99,000 (61 bb)
Seat 8:  –empty–
Seat 9:  –empty–

Table 41
Seat 1:  –empty–
Seat 2:  –empty–
Seat 3: Matt Yorra – 42,500 (26 bb)
Seat 4: Steven Richardson – 59,500 (37 bb)
Seat 5: Vincent DeVita – 39,500 (24 bb)
Seat 6: Richard Wetter – 81,000 (50 bb)
Seat 7: Mark Manesh – 72,000 (45 bb)
Seat 8: Leo Birov – 63,000 (39 bb)
Seat 9: Jorge Gomez – 103,000 (64 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 11: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 19 of 93
Average Stack: 48,900 (49 bb)

A short-stacked played raised all in from the cutoff for 5,100 and Tim Kegel called from the big blind with , leading his opponent’s .

The board came down , giving Kegel kings and sevens to win the pot and the bounty.

Tim Kegel – 43,000 (43 bb)

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 10: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Entries: 93

The prize pool is set at $30,000, with $9,300 set aside for bounties.

Here is a complete list of the payouts.

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 9: 300/600 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 31 of 93
Average Stack: 30,000 (50 bb)

Registration has closed and the payouts are being calculated. Here were the chip leaders at the second break, along with a few other stacks in the room:

Richard Wetter – 89,500 (149 bb)
Jorge Gomez – 88,000 (146 bb)
John Rembert – 73,000 (121 bb)
Zoltan Czinkota – 26,000 (43 bb)
Tim Kegel – 25,000 (41 bb)
Nancy Birnbaum – 21,000 (35 bb)
Jeff Kessler – 18,000 (30 bb)
Matt Yorra – 17,000 (28 bb)

Among those who have been eliminated include Joel Harwood, Michael Newman, Dimitry Agrachov, and Jeff Fogel.

$350 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em
Level 7: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Entries: 88

A player in middle position opened to 1,000, the player in the hijack reraised all in for about 4,000, Jeff Kessler four-bet shoved from the cutoff for about 35,000, and the initial raiser folded face up.

Kessler showed , racing with the all-in player’s .

The board came down , giving Kessler trip aces to score the elimination and collect the knockout bounty.

Jeff Kessler – 41,000 (102 bb)