$1,700 WSOP Circuit Coco Main Event
$1,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 80 of 617

The quick bubble was beneficial to a few players including Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler. He was down to 3.5 big blinds and made it into the money. After the break, he put those chips in the middle in a three-way pot after only seeing one of his cards. It was an ace which was good enough to get them in.

The board ran out and Todd Mercer put out a big stack of chips and picked up a call from the other live stack. Mercer’s was good for a boat over his opponent’s flush.

Then Kessler checked his hole cards and was surprised to see his second card was an ace as well. He picked up a short-stacked but it was third best by the river.

This is Kessler’s 87th WSOP Circuit cash and 165 overall WSOP cash, third-most all-time.

Not long after Kessler was eliminated, Mercer sent Ryan Van Sanford out as well to move his stack up to 778,000.

81st: Buddy Frezza – $2,837
82nd: Sean Small – $2,761
83rd: Kevin Kamminga – $2,761
84th: Ryan Van Sanford – $2,761
85th: Andrew Lauer – $2,761
86th: Marvin “The Duckman” Kharlins – $2,761
87th: Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler – $2,761
88th: Naing Thu – $2,761
89th: Glenn Becker – $2,761
90th: Erik Mason – $2,761
91st: Marcin Plewinski – $2,728
92nd: Victor Figueroa – $2,728
93rd: Fred Taylor – $2,728