$1,100 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

After nearly 15 hours of play, they have finally made the money and bagged/tagged for the day. They will return at 1 pm with 19 minutes left at blinds of 800/1600 and a 200 ante. 104K (65 big blinds) is the average stack. Vladislav Varlashin continues to lead the way with 282,300 in chips. Seth Berger is not far behind with 222,500. Other notables still in the field include Adam Levy, Ryan D’Angelo, and Joey Weissman. Full chip counts and seating assignments for the final nine is below:

Seat 1: Adam Levy – 18.4K (12 BB)
Seat 2: Richard Kessler – 42.9K (28 BB)
Seat 3: Ryan D’Angelo – 68.4K (43 BB)
Seat 4: Seth Berger – 222.5K (139 BB)
Seat 5: Thomas Magni – 40.3K (25 BB)
Seat 6: Francisco Gomez – 139.1K (87 BB)
Seat 7: Vladislav Varlashin – 282.3K (177 BB)
Seat 8: Jamar Lewis – 27K (17 BB)
Seat 9: Joey Weissman – 95.1K (59 BB)

$240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Jay Romano has made quite the bounce back. After losing two big pots earlier to knock himself down to 7K, he’s surged back into contention with his most recent pot being the elimination of Jeff Trudeau when Jay’s K-T was able to win a race against Jeff’s pocket 7’s. Trudeau finishes in 4th place, good for $934.

$240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Pocket 10’s is a big hand five handed – unfortunately for Nicolas Pensa, Chris Lewis had a slightly bigger hand in pocket Jacks. That was enough to cripple Pensa down to 2K and he was eliminated the next hand when Lewis delivered the final blow to pick up the bounty. Pensa finishes in 5th place for $682.

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Event 6: $1,100 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

We’re down to 10 players, one away from making the money. Adam Levy, Joey Weissman, and Seth Berger are still among the hopefuls.

Event 7: $240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Jay Romano has gone from the penthouse to the outhouse in a matter of two hands. First he called Nicolas Pensa’s all in raise with when Pensa held pocket Queens. Pensa would have to fade some outs on the board but he would prevail to move into the chip lead. Then Romano would lose again with J-T but this time he had flopped the nuts on a [9] board. Chris Lewis had pocket 6’s and was in bad shape. The turn was the giving Lewis some outs since he had the (and Romano did not have a diamond). Sure enough the river was a diamond, the and Lewis laughed and said “I’m like Nostradamus” as he crippled Romano and scored a big double up.

$240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 1K/2K Ante 300

On a flop of J-x-2, Joe Pusateri got the last of his chips in with A-J. Unfortunately for him, Nicolas Pensa had flopped a set of deuces. The turn and river would not help Joe any and he is our 6th place finisher.

$240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Jamael Rahill opened the pot to 6K and was called by Jay Romano and Tom Hand. The flop came and Jamael bet 16K and was called by Romano with Hand folding. The turn was the and Rahill moved all in for 32.5K. Romano counted out the call, made a joke about the next pay jump being $100 adding “this is tempting” and then placing the call into the middle while turning over for a gutsthot straight draw and a flush draw. Rahill had . The river was the giving Romano the flush. All Rahill could say was “that’s just disgusting” as he headed to the rail.

$1,100 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 500/1,000 Ante 100

Vlad Varlashin from Russia just scooped a monster pot with pocket 9’s against pocket Kings when they got it all in on a J-J-9 flop. The pot was approximately 300K. For some perspective, there is a total of 936K chips in play meaning Vlad has nearly 1/3 the chips in play with 14 players remaining. The average stack is 67K so there is still plenty of play in this deep stacked, slow structured tournament. Among those still playing are Seth Berger, Joey Weissman, David Diaz, Jake Schindler (who recently won the PCA High Roller event for over a million dollars) and Adam Levy.

$240 Black Chip Bounty No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

With the recent elimination of Gaurav Mirchandani in 8th place, we are down to the final seven in Event 7. Here is the remaining players and what their approximate stack sizes were before Gaurav’s elimination:

Seat 1: Jay Romano (Boca Raton, FL) – 150K
Seat 2: Joe Pusateri (Chicago, IL) – 25K
Seat 3: Tom Hand (Boston, MA) – 120K
Seat 4: Jeff Trudeau (Orlando, FL) – 40K
Seat 5: Nicolas Pensa (Montreal) – 65K
Seat 6: Chris Lewis (Hollywood, FL) – 135K
Seat 7: Jamael Rahill (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) – 50K

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Five handed, the players decided to chop the money and it was Jermaine Phang who was declared the winner. Payouts and order of finish was as follows:

Jermaine is a 34 year old electrical engineer from Pompano Beach. “I play tournaments all the time at the Creek,” said Phang. “I’m going to play the Main,” he said, also adding that this was his biggest tournament win ever. “I’m going to Disney,” he joked. Jermaine said the biggest hand for him was when Wendy Freedman moved all in from the small blind with A-8 when he was in the big blind with A-Q. “That was the hand that got me going,” Phang said. Congratulations on your win Jermaine!

$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-entry)

Blinds 25K/50K Ante 5K

Harold Lamm survived for quite a while with a short stack, even quadrupling up when he hit two pair with A-8. His stack could never gain any momentum, however, and when he moved all in for about four big blinds with , Darryl Fish looked him up out of the big blind with . The first card out of the dealers hand was the prompting Fish to say “not a good start” the next two cards, however, would change that as it was the [9] to give Fish bottom two pair. That would end up holding up to send Lamm to the rail in 6th place.