$2,200 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out)Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 226 5u1e15
Faraz Jaka raised on the button and Sean Perry moved all in for 203,000. Jaka called.
Jaka tabled and had Perry’s dominated. The flop was , keeping Jaka in the lead, but the came on the turn to give Perry the best hand. The river was the and Perry doubled up.
Sean Perry – 424,000 (35 bb)
Faraz Jaka – 470,000 (39 bb)
$2,200 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 22: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 226
Brian Altman
Brian Altman moved all in on the button for 115,000 and Joe McKeehen called from the small blind. Ian O’Hara folded his big blind and Altman’s tournament life was on the line.
Altman showed and was up against McKeehen’s . The board ran out and Altman hit the rail in seventh place, taking home $15,368.
Joe McKeehen – 660,000 (55 bb)
Brian Altman – Eliminated
$2,200 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 21: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 226
Byron Kaverman
Ian O’Hara raised to 22,000 from early position and Faraz Jaka three-bet to 50,000 from middle position. Action folded to Byron Kaverman in the big blind, who moved all in for about 140,000.
O’Hara folded and Jaka called. It was a flip with Jaka’s up against Kaverman’s .
The board ran out and Jaka’s pair won the flip. Jaka dragged the pot and Kaverman was eliminated in eighth place. He took home $12,837 and Jaka neared the million chip mark.
$2,200 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 20: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 226
Charlie Carrel raised to 22,000 from the hijack and Brian Altman called from the cutoff. Joe McKeehen three-bet to about 60,000 out of the small blind and Ian O’Hara thought for a minute before moving all in out of the big blind.
Carrel and Altman folded before McKeehen snap-called, all in for 275,000. McKeehen tabled and had O’Hara’s in terrible shape.
The board ran out and the former WSOP Main Event champion doubled up.
Joe McKeehen – 592,000 (74 bb)
Ian O’Hara – 190,000 (23 bb)
$2,200 Eight-Handed No Limit Hold’em (Freeze-Out) Level 19: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 226
Ian Bankoff
Joe McKeehen raised from middle position and Faraz Jaka called from the cutoff. Ian Bankoff moved all in from the small blind for 121,000, McKeehen folded and Jaka called.
It was a flip between Bankoff’s and Jaka’s . The flop was , putting Jaka in the lead with a pair of jacks. The turn was the and the river was the to send Bankoff to the rail in ninth place.
Bankoff took home $10,274 for his run and Jaka took over the chip lead on the last hand of the level.
Faraz Jaka – 655,000 (109 bb)
Ian Bankoff – Eliminated