PTPRpokerLIVE: BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP LEVEL 14-18

LIVE COVERAGE OF THE BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP

Your unofficial chip counts heading into tomorrow's final table:

Guy Laliberté 21.7M
Brian Rast 11.3M
Phil Hellmuth 10.9M
Antonio Esfandiari 40.5M
Bobby Baldwin 7.2M
Sam Trickett 36M
Richard Yong 7.4M
David Einhorn 8.3M

Talk to you all tomorrow!
Eric

11:58pm PT
Dream final table? Antonio, Rast, Hellmuth, Trickett et al! Esfandiari has just eliminated gentleman Mike Sexton

11:41pm PT
Trickett does it again ... Sam Trickett has eliminated Ilya Bulychev in 10th position. We have an official final table, all nine remaining players are in the money

11:22pm PT
THE FINAL TEN

Seat 1 Guy Laliberté
Seat 2 Brian Rast
Seat 3 Phil Hellmuth
Seat 4 Antonio Esfandiari
Seat 5 Mike Sexton
Seat 6 Bobby Baldwin
Seat 7 Ilya Bulychev
Seat 8 Sam Trickett
Seat 9 Richard Yong
Seat 10 David Einhorn

11:18pm PT
Philipp Gruissem is our 11th place finisher - done in at the hands of Sam Trickett who looks to have approx. 35M chips now. We are re-drawing the final 10

11:08pm PT
Level 18 - 150K/300K blinds, 50K ante

10:55pm PT
UPDATED SEAT DRAW/CHIP COUNTS:

TABLE 446
Einhorn 8.2M, Laliberté 26M, Baldwin 7.7M, Sexton 10.2M, Esfandiari 28.5M, Yong 7.5M

TABLE 447
Rast 13M, Hellmuth 8.1M, Trickett 27M, Gruissem 8.3M, Bulychev 3.1M

10:45pm PT
Break time

10:40pm PT
Sam Trickett spikes a jack on the river, Brandon Steven is your 12th place finisher

10:19pm PT
Back to back for Antonio. He eliminates Tom Marchese. Big Cheese is out in 13th place

10:16pm PT
It was a great run for Fred Banjout ... but, alas, it's over. Antonio's pocket Jacks hold against Banjout's pocket tens, 14th place for Banjout

10:05pm PT
Mike Sexton's kicker is better than Roland De Wolfe's kicker, De Wolfe eliminated in 15th position

9:57pm PT
Beware of the Brat! Phil Hellmuth doubles-up through Ilya Bulychev, he's not dead yet

9:45pm PT
Level 17 - 120K/240 blinds with a 40K ante

9:23pm PT
AJ suited loses to AK suited ... Cary Katz out in 16th place, Philipp Gruissem continues to build a castle

9:07pm PT
Two all-ins!!!

Bobby Baldwin doubles-up through Philipp Gruissem and Roland De Wolfe is saved by a miracle river (ace to give him two-pair; counter-fits the two-pair that Fred Banjout had flopped.

8:47pm PT
Double-up for Sexton. AIPF with pocket 4's - he survives much to the joy of Padraig Parkinson who just yelled from the crowd. Banjout was Sexton's opponent

8:45pm PT
And we're back ... Blinds are 100K/200K with a 30K Ante - Level 16

7:05pm PT
Back in about 85 minutes ... Sweet 16 action continues

7:05pm PT
Minutes before the dinner break - Bobby Baldwin is back in the game! Double-up vs. Rast as Rast's aces are no good, Baldwin (holding KQ) hits a King on the flop and another one on the river

6:48pm PT
After a short break, we are back in action ... here are the updated seat draws (with approx. chip counts)...

TABLE 446
Banjout 5.2M, Einhorn 6.9M, Laliberté 14.7M, De Wolfe 3.5M, Sexton 1.9M, Esfandiari 19.3M, Yong 10.1M, Marchese 4.8M

TABLE 447
Rast 20.5M, Hellmuth 9M, Steven 11.7M, Baldwin 2.1M, Trickett 15.6M, Katz 2.5M, Gruissem 9.4M, Bulychev 3.1M


6:40pm PT
Loto-Quebec's Haralabos Voulgaris is eliminated by fellow Canadian Guy Laliberte ... Guy turns a straight, both players all in, Haralabob's Queens are no good

We now redraw the final two tables

6:23pm PT
Sam Trickett has doubled-up through Antonio Esfandiari ... AK good vs. AQ

6:18pm PT
Ilya Bulychev was moved to Table 447 earlier (to balance the tables following Bill Perkins' elimination)

6:15pm PT
Talal Shakerchi's 9's cannot beat Guy Laliberte when an ace hits the board. Shakerchi is out in 18th position

6:11pm PT
Bill Perkins is out in 19th position

6:07pm PT
UPDATED SEAT ASSIGNMENTS:

TABLE 446
Gruissem, Hellmuth, Bulychev, De Wolfe, Banjout, Rast, Sexton

TABLE 447
Katz, Einhorn, Perkins, Marchese, Trickett, Esfandiari

TABLE 448
Shakerchi, Baldwin, Yong, Laliberté, Steven, Voulgaris

6:03pm PT
Blinds are up again! 80/160K blinds with a 20K ante

5:36pm PT
Pot of the tournament? Top 5 chip stacks collide as Jason Mercier's Kings are done in by Antonio's Aces. Mercier finishes in 20th position

5:23pm PT
Rick Solomon is the next one out. We are down to 20 players.

5:15pm PT
Brian Rast has lost an all-in race - I'm not kidding! Roland De Wolfe double through Rast as he hits a King, besting Rast's A-5 hand

4:59pm PT
We're a few minutes away from Level 14: 60K/120K/15K



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