$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out

Level 11:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante (About 30 minutes remaining)

At 3am, they stopped the clock and the remaining players bagged their chips for the night.  They will return at 3pm Wednesday for the finale.

26 players remain.  Average stack is 68k.  Here they are with their table and seat assignments and chip counts:

Table 1

1. Jordan Kaplan 27,700
2. Frank Collins 32,700
3. Tyler Stafman 76,800
5. Cory Zedo 107,700
6. Luke Graham 15,200

Table 2

1. John DiBella 113,900
2. Ben Tanzia 70,100
3. Moe Maghraoui 76,200
4. Cory Burbick 77,800
5. Christopher Bolek 126,000
6. David Bromberg 23,400

Table 3

2. Marshall White 79,300
3. A. Nonymous 55,200
4. Matt Stout 53,400
5. Luke Brereton 94,500
6. Zo Karim 119,400

Table 4

1. Gregory Marcus 48,500
2. Tum Burt 28,600
4. Andy Seth 40,500
5. Elliott ‘Comrade’ Zaydman  57,000
6. Joe Kuether 87,700

Table 5

1. Viet Vo 120,200
2. Nathaniel Falder 43,900
3. Tony March 60,600
4. Jeff Coutroulis 61,900
5. Julian Sacks 71,200

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 11: Blinds 500/1K/ 100 ante

Action is folded to Matt Stout, who fires out 3K from the button. Luke Brereton is in the big blind and makes the call. Flop comes . Brereton checks. Stout bets out 4K. Brereton takes a few moments before raising to another 8K on top. Stout mulls it over for a few seconds before throwing his cards in the muck. Brereton is sitting on about 80K after scooping that pot.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out

Level 11:  Blinds 500/1,000/100 ante

Paul Dlugozima got his last chips in holding against Joe Kuether’s .

The board ran out and was no help to Paul.  He hit the exit as they were nearing the end of play.

Joe’s sitting behind about 100k.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 11: Blinds 500/1K/ 100 ante

On a board showing K9994, Luke Brereton faces a pot sized bet from Viet Vo. He thinks it over for a while before making the call. Vo turns over 55 for a full house, Nines over Fives, inducing an exasperated muck from Brereton.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out

Level 10:  Blinds 400/800/100 ante

29 players remain with an average stack of 61k.

Joe Kuether opened for 1,700 only to have seat 3 raise to 4,300 from the cutoff.  Joe called.

The flop fell and Joe checked.  Seat 3 checked behind.

Turn was the and again Joe checked.  Seat 3 bet 5,200 and Joe called.

River was the and Joe checked for a third time.  Seat 3 bet 7,500 and after about a minute, Joe announced he was all-in (20,200).

After getting the count, his opponent tanked, talking it out: “How do I fold Jacks here? You went all that way with an Ace? I don’t know what to do.  Ace Queen of hearts, Ace Ten of hearts, pocket sevens?”

He finally folded, saying “Did I call your hand?”  After getting no response from Joe, who was stacking his chips, he repeated the question.  Joe said “I didn’t hear what you said,” and that’s all.

Joe chipped up to about 50k with that pot.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out

Level 10:  Blinds 400/800/100 ante

Brian Hastings is a recent departure from the Six Max:

Busto $2200 6max. On the bright side I might get a sympathy follow from @coreyburbick after all the chips I gave him. #onetime?

— Brian Hastings (@brianchastings) August 27, 2014

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 10: 400/800/ 100 ante

We have 32 players left in today’s $2,200 Buy-In Six-Max NLH tournament. We’re playing for another hour or so before bagging and tagging at 3am. Blinds are 400/800/ 100 ante, average stack at the moment is 55K.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out

Level 10:  Blinds 400/800/100 ante

Players are back from their break and only 34 of them remain in action.  Average stack is 52k.

John DiBella appears to be the chip leader with about 125k.

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 9: 300/600/ 75 ante

Players are back from break, playing blinds of 300/600/ 75 for the next hour. Here are a few of the updated chip leaders:

Jordan Kaplan 96,875
A. Nonymous 92K
Karim Zohair 91,200
John Dibella 78,225

$2,200 Buy-In Six-Max No Limit Hold’em Freeze-Out
Level 8: 250/500/50 ante

There are 43 players left in Event 16. In a few minutes they’ll be going on their 15 minute break, with blinds moving up to Level 9: 300/600/ 75 ante when they return. Average stack is 41K.

Here’s a reminder of what they’re fighting for:

Place – Payout
1. $77,880
2. $44,132
3. $29,264
4. $21,004
5. $15,340
6. $11,800
7-8 $7,434
9-10 $5,900
11-12 $4,956