$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Level 17: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
It took exactly zero rounds of hand-for-hand action to get the field in the money. As staff were stopping the action, a table in the corner was playing out their last hand.
Melvin Suero did all the work getting them in the money when his flopped trip Fives against and for the double elimination.
It’s impossible to get an accurate count of Suero’s stack at the moment since it’s just a massive, messy pile of chips at the moment but there are just 45 players left in the field as they head off on break.
Mohammed Jaafar and Sean Winter take it to the river on a board of . Sean fired 325k and Mohammed tanked for a couple of minutes, then decided to call.
Sean showed for the nut flush. “Nice hand” said Mohammed as he mucked his hand.
Sean is up to about 4 million while Mohammed’s stack dropped to about 500k.
$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $50,000 Guaranteed Level 17: Blinds 2,500/5,000/500 ante
While most of the attention is on the Championship final table, Event 19 is playing out on the other side of the poker room. Day 2 began with 85 players alive for the title but just 46 remain with 47 getting paid.
They are close to playing hand-for-hand and we’ll follow along.
Mohammed Jaafar got all-in holding a mere and ran into Faraz Jaka’s pocket Queens. It appeared we were looking at the last hand of the night, but the community cards delivered big-time for Mohammad as they came .
Mohammed doubled up to about 1 million while Faraz dropped to about 2 million.
Seven players remain with an average stack of 2.6 million. When one more player departs, the final six will bag up for the night.