Earlier this level Chance Kornuth was knocking on elimination's door, down to what looked to be 20,000 or so. He's now sitting on a stack of 140,000!
His latest victim was none other than Andrew Lichtenberger. It happened when a player opened for 4,000, Kornuth three-bet to 10,500, and Lichtenberger shipped for 50,000 or so. The original raiser folded, Kornuth called with , and his pocket pair held against "Lucky Chewy's" suited.
The 72 remaining players are on their 45-minute dinner break. There are currently 117 entries registered into the tournament, already up 13 more than last year. Registration is open till the end of the dinner break, so the field might just grow even a bit bigger. Check back in 45 minutes as we'll bring you updates for the last 4 remaining levels of the day.
We missed the specifics, but we do know David Peters was just eliminated after bluffing it off against Geoff Mooney.
The board read and Mooney checked. Peters shoved all in and Mooney snap-called with the for quads. Peters went to muck, but since it was an all in the dealer showed his hand, which was the for a missed straight.
Right before registration closed, Brian Rast walked up to the registration desk, handed over another $25,000, and received a ticket to give it one more try. He made his way back to the tournament area, handed over the receipt, and received 50,000 in chips.
There was just one problem, though. Rast had already reentered once, and this event is single reentry only. While Rast was waiting for a hand to be dealt, he was called back by the floor. Rast was told the event was indeed single reentry and that registration had made a mistake. Rast understood and made his way back to registration to get a refund.
The tournament clock tells us a total of 122 entries have been made into this A$25,000 Challenge single reentry 6-max tournament. A total of 64 players remain at this time. The prize pool and pay out have not been released yet, but we expect both shortly.
The action just folded to Darryll Fish in the small blind and he raised to 36,000, basically forcing Kevin MacPhee to play for his tournament life, as he had just 39,000 chips in front of him.
After about 10 seconds, MacPhee called.
Fish:
MacPhee:
The board ran out and MacPhee raked in a nice double up.
Philipp Gruissem just got his last 13,800 in before the flop holding . His neighbor on his left looked him up with but that hand failed to improve as the board came .
One table over Vladimir Troyanovskiy got his last 43,000 or so in with against Niall Farrell's . A board full of blanks later saw Troyanovskiy hit the rail while Farrell got his stack up to over 140,000.
Martin Finger just raised to 4,000 and Eugene Katchalov three-bet from his direct left to 10,000. Igor Kurganov four-bet all in from the small blind for 26,700 and Finger went into the tank. After a while Finger slid forward a tall stack of 5,000 chips, putting Katchalov at risk, and he folded quickly.
Finger:
Kurganov:
The board ran out and Kurganov doubled up, while Finger was left with a very strong stack still.
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and Mooney checked. Peters shoved all in and Mooney snap-called with the 
for quads. Peters went to muck, but since it was an all in the dealer showed his hand, which was the 
for a missed straight.
and MacPhee raked in a nice double up.
. His neighbor on his left looked him up with 
but that hand failed to improve as the board came 
.
against Niall Farrell's 
and Kurganov doubled up, while Finger was left with a very strong stack still.
