$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 25: 15,000/30,000/5,000 Ante

The seven remaining players took their time to feel each other out after the dinner break, but that only lasted one orbit. Danny Notice opened to 60,000 from under the gun to get calls from Jean Gaspard and James Brown.

Notice checked the flop and Gaspard bet out 90,000. Brown moved all-in and Notice called, Gaspard hemmed before letting his hand go. Notice was on a flush draw with against Brown’s top pair .

Notice missed his flush draw and over card when the board completed to send him out shortly after dinner.

Notice: Eliminated in 7th place
Brown: 1,842,000

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 25: 15,000/30,000/5,000 Ante

Cards are back in the air at the 2015 Coco Poker Open Championship final table.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

Matt Affleck is your dinner time leader by a small bit over Jean Gaspard. No one is in the danger zone with the average stack at 1,464,000 and 49 big blinds when they return to 15,000/30,000 and 5,000 ante.

Seat 1: Matt Affleck – 2,065,000 (69 bb)
Seat 2: Kevin Ho – 1,495,000 (50 bb)
Seat 3: Nathan Bjerno – 1,225,000 (41 bb)
Seat 4: Cord Garcia – 1,585,000 (53 bb)
Seat 5: Danny Notice – 815,000 (27 bb)
Seat 7: Jean Gaspard – 2,025,000 (68 bb)
Seat 9: James Brown – 1,040,000 (35 bb)

Remaining payouts:

1st: $264,000
2nd: $155,000
3rd: $100,000
4th: $70,000
5th: $50,500
6th: $40,500
7th: $31,000

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
End of Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

The remaining seven players are heading on a 60-minute dinner break. Updated counts after staff color off the 1K chips.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

Andre Pillow was limping along after losing an earlier big hand against Kevin Ho and put his last 375,000 in the middle with . James Brown looked him up with the dominating and never had a sweat as the board ran out to send Pillow out in 8th place.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

Matt Affleck limped his button followed by call and check from Kevin Ho and Nathan Bjerno in the blinds. An innocent beginning to the flop.

Ho and Bjerno checked, Affleck bet out 26,000 to get a call from Ho and fold from Bjerno. Ho checked again after the turn and check/raised to 400,000 after Affleck bet 150,000. A four-bet shove from Affleck got a call from Ho with two pair .

Affleck was ahead with and his set of ducks dodged the river for the double.

Affleck: 2,100,000
Ho: 1,550,000

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

Ioannis Patsourakis was milking his short stack for all its might and even laddered up a few spots before running into the “Prince”. He moved all-in for his small 65,000 and Gaspard called next to act. The rest of table let their hand go and the two were off.

Gaspard:
Patsourakis:

Patsourakis was ahead for the tiny double but Gaspard smashed the flop. No miracle for Patsourakis and he was gone in 9th place for $16,000.

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

Kevin Ho and Andre Pillow were heads up to the flop and there they lit the fireworks. Ho was all-in with and needed to catch after Pillow flopped a set with .

His rail was yelling for a King but added a diamond demand after the turn. Ho was delivered the four flush saving river to send him into the lead.

Ho: 2,800,000
Pillow: 305,000

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 24: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

We heard a commotion mid-count update and we got to the table to see Matt Affleck all-in but not sweating it much. He turned over on the to have the mortal nuts against Brown’s to get the big double.

Brown: 925,000
Affleck: 1,290,000

$2,500 Coco Poker Open Championship
Level 23: 12,000/24,000/3,000 Ante

The final table moved into the high limit room to make things a little more intimate. They’ll play down here until we have a winner.

Seat 1: Matt Affleck – 537,000 (22 bb)
Seat 2: Kevin Ho – 970,000 (40 bb)
Seat 3: Nathan Bjerno – 1,000,000 (42 bb)
Seat 4: Cord Garcia – 1,360,000 (57 bb)
Seat 5: Danny Notice – 610,000 (25 bb)
Seat 6: Ioannis Patsourakis – 75,000 (3 bb)
Seat 7: Jean Gaspard – 2,400,000 (100 bb)
Seat 8: Andre Pillow – 1,520,000 (63 bb)
Seat 9: James Brown – 1,750,000 (73 bb)