Rainer Kempe and
âyoellalaskaâ simultaneously bubble the tournament, the in-the-money bustouts came quick. Among those to walk away with a payday but fall short of the final table were
Dzmitry Urbanovich (12th - $7,423),
Joao Simao (26th - $4,756),
Niklas Astedt (27th - $4,756), start-of-day chip leader
Fabrizio Gonzalez (72nd - $2,265),
Ankush Mandavia (92nd - $1,952), and
Patrick Leonard (150th - $1,451).
After
Ami Barer bowed out in fifth place, the final four players engaged in a lengthy back-and-forth affair. At one point or another, each member of the quartet looked as if they were going to win it. Eventually, Japanâs
Kosei Ichinose fell to Drinan, and then just three were left.
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Blinds: 7,000/14,000/1,750
Rainer Kempe was short, more than doubled, and then tried to parlay his still-short stack into the money. Unfortunately for him, he dwindled down to just 270 as hand-for-hand play progressed. Running cold, he joked in the chat.
In what would be his final hand, there were 302 players still in contention (remember, 300 would get paid) and Kempe was all in via the ante from under the gun. Chris Rudolph raised to 35,000 next to act and the rest of the players got out of the way.
Chris Rudolph:
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Sam Greenwood exited in 11th for $21,660 and the final table began after xyzpoker (10th - $23,260) couldn t get there with ace-jack against the ace-queen held by
Fabrizio Gonzalez.
Joao Vieira began the final table with the chip lead
The final table took slightly more than two hours from start to finish. Blinds were rolled back to assure that the average stack would be at least 40 big blinds as per GGPoker s network policy for events that attract more than 100 entrants.
Vieira kicked off the final table with the chip lead with Peters, Gottlieb, and
Timothy Adams as his closest competitors.