Level 27 Update: Pedro Rios Out 8th, Nam Le Out 7th, Mark Teltscher Out 6th
Jun 26, '13
Level: 27
Blinds: 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante
Players Remaining: 5 out of 1,072
Average Chip Count: 1,929,600
Chip Counts:
Seat 3: Niall Farrell – 2,300,000
Seat 6: Zo Karim – 600,000
Seat 7: Martin Hanowski – 2,700,000
Seat 8: Michael Rocco – 2,600,000
Seat 9: Sandeep Pulusani – 650,000
Players Eliminated:
8th: Pedro Rios – $54,053
7th: Nam Le – $70,120
6th: Mark Teltscher – $92,816
Live Updates:
Pedro Rios Eliminated in Eighth Place ($54,053)
Pedro Rios raised all in preflop for 510,000 and Martin Hanowski called. The two players then tabled their hands.
Hanowski: 88
Rios: J10
Board: AK4A9
Nam Le
Rios was eliminated in eighth place and Hanowski grew his stack to 2.8 million after the hand.
Nam Le Eliminated in Seventh Place ($70,120)
Nam Le raised to 90,000 preflop on the small blind and Niall Farrell reraised all in on the big blind. Nam called and the two players flipped over their cards.
Farrell: AA
Nam: KK
Board: J9467
Nam was eliminated in seventh place and Farrell grew his stack to 500,000 thanks to an ace-high flush.
Mark Teltscher
Mark Teltscher Eliminated in Sixth Place ($92,816)
Mark Teltscher raised all in and Niall Farrell reraised all in over the top of him. Everyone else folded and the two players revealed their hands.
Farrell: 55
Teltscher: AQ
Board: J63102
Teltscher was out in sixth place and Farrell took his stack above 2 million thanks to a pair of fives.
Official Final Table Begins for Event No. 44 ($3,000 No-Limit Hold'em)
Jun 26, '13
The final table of Event No. 44 ($3,000 No-Limit Hold’em) has begun, and Card Player will be posting level-by-level updates with all major hands, current chip counts, and prize payouts.
With the elimination of Jacob Schindler in tenth place ($33,421), the nine-handed final table is now set. Play will begin in Level 25 with blinds of 12,000-24,000 with a 4,000 ante, and action will continue until a winner is determined. Play may be extended an additional day if it takes more than 10 levels to reach a winner as noted on the official structure sheet. With cards now back in the air, here is a look at the final table and how these players stack up:
Seat 1: Mark Teltscher – 873,000
Seat 2: Nam Le – 883,000
Seat 3: Niall Farrell – 504,000
Seat 4: Phillippe Vert – 955,000
Seat 5: Pedro Rios – 944,000
Seat 6: Zo Karim – 881,000
Seat 7: Martin Hanowski – 1,004,000
Seat 8: Michael Rocco – 2,868,000
Seat 9: Sandeep Pulusani – 740,000
While only 9 remain, this event attracted a field of 1,072 players, creating a total prize pool of $2,926,560, and the top 117 players made the money. Here is a look at the final table payouts:
Be sure to check back with Card Player at the conclusion of each level for regular updates with all major hands, current chip counts, and prize payouts.
Level 15 Update: Wahlbeck and Greenstein Bust, Zolotow Doubles
Jun 16, '09
Blinds: 3,000-6,000
Players Remaining: 27 out of 185
Chip Counts:
1. Kenny Hsiung – 410,000
2. Chad Brown – 376,000
3. Mark Klecan – 370,000
4. Matt Hawrilenko – 310,000
5. Daniel Alaei – 300,000
6. Kenny SHei – 300,000
7. Soheil Shamseddin – 290,000
8. Ralph Perry – 255,000
9. Howard Lederer – 250,000
10. Matt Glantz – 225,000
Average Chip Count: 132,142
Notable Eliminations:
Ville Wahlbeck
Josh Arieh
Barry Greenstein
Big Hands:
Zolotow Teaches The Professor The Art Of The Moustache
Steve Zolotow was all in for his last 22,000 and Howard Lederer was the man putting Zolotow at risk.
Zolotow: A8
Lederer: AK
Zolotow was dominated and needed a generous flop to stand a chance at doubling up. He got his wish as it came 765, giving Zolotow an open ended straight draw. The 4 on the turn made his straight and the 7 finished off the board. Zolotow doubled through Lederer and was at 50,000. Lederer was still doing fine at 230,000.
No Money For Wahlbeck This Time
Ville Wahlbeck was short stacked with 9,000 and shoved that in against Phil Tom. Wahlbeck had king-high but Tom held ace-high. The flop pair Tom’s ace and Wahlbeck never got any help and, in a rare occurrence, Wahlbeck will not cash in this $10,000 buy-in event.
Barry Greenstein Doubles Up, But Busts Later
Action folded around to Barry Greenstein in the small blind and he raised. Mark Teltscher was in the big blind and three-bet. Greenstein moved in and was called.
Greenstein: Q5
Teltscher: KJ
Greenstein was behind until the flop of A52 gave Greenstein a pair and the lead. The turn brought the 10, giving Teltscher outs to a straight. But the 3 was a brick for Teltscher and Greenstein doubled up to 45,000.
Later, Greenstein found his entire stack in the middle again and was holding pocket queens. Steve Kim looked him up holding pocket aces. The board ran out J96103 and Greenstein was eliminated.
Level: 18
Blinds/Antes: 8,000-16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Left: 27 of 497
Average: 771,000
Notable Chip Counts
Nick Schulman - 2,140,000
Steven Landfish - 1,850,000
Hunter Frey - 1,460,000
Jack Wu - 1,135,000
Robert Mizrachi - 1,100,000
In the Money Eliminations
$36,030
34th: Mark Teltscher
33rd: Daniel O'Brien
32nd: Jared Rubin
31st: Luke "IWEARGOGGLES" Staudenmaier
$43,235
30th: David Oppenheim
29th: Bradley Berman
28th: Yehuda Yerushalaim
Big Hands:
Mark Teltscher Runs Into Aces
A short stacked Mark Teltscher was looking to double up but ran into the pocket aces of David Benyamine. Teltscher's flight back to London will have to wait, seeing as McCarran Airport has cancelled most of tonite's flight due to the amount of snow in the area.
Steve Landfish Makes a Nice Call
Sitting with just top pair, Steven Landfish called all in holding just top pair of aces on a scary board of AQ4J4. Luke Staudenmaier could only showdown a pair of fives and Lanfish took the pot, giving him a stack of 1.5 million. Staudenmaier dropped down to 265,000.
Dan O'Brien Eliminated
Dan O'Brien was all in with AJ against Steve Sung's dominated A10. The board ran out 97295 to give Sung a runner-runner flush and eliminate O'Brien.
Mike Matusow Doubles Up
Mike Matusow moved all in from the button with AJ only to run into Mohlsin Charania's AQ. The flop gave Matusow the jack he needed and he doubled up to 500,000 in chips.
Luke Staudenmaier, David Oppenheim Bust
Tom Pniak was all in and barely covered by David Oppenheim. Luke Staudenmaier was also all in and short. Staudenmaier showed AJ, Oppenheim showed QQ and Pniak showed KK. The board filled out KQ598 and Pniak's top set was enough to bust Staudenmaier and leave Oppenheim crippled with just 14,000. Oppenheim was eliminated on the next hand by Hunter Frey. Pniak now has over 800,000.
Level: 16
Blinds/Antes: 5,000-10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Left: 40 of 497
Average: 550,000
Notable Chip Counts
Jack Wu - 1,290,000
Chino Rheem - 1,140,000
Evan McNiff - 1,050,000
Benjamin Straate - 1,000,000
Luke Staudenmaier - 871,000
In the Money Eliminations
$23,420
55th: Tim Vance
54th: Tuan Le
53rd: Shawn Cunix
52nd: Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber
51st: Skip Wilson
$28,825
50th: Henrik Antanesian
49th: Gary Haglund
48th: Allen Cunningham
47th: Nam Le
46th: Matt Gianetti
45th: Elia Ahmadian
44th: Tommy Vu
43rd: Scott Bohlman
42nd: Thang "Kido" Pham
41st: Adam "csimmsux" Geyer
Big Hands:
Tim Vance Starts The Day With a Bust
EPT winner Tim Vance started the day short but was looking to double up with pocket jacks. Unfortunately, Jared Rubin woke up with pocket aces to bust Vance and make him the first the hit the rail on the day.
Shawn Cunix Goes Home
After doubling up Jonathan Little when both players made straights, Shawn Cunix was eliminated when Nam Le paired his jack. Cunix, who was one of the shortest stacks near the bubble, was eliminated in 53rd place.
Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber Eliminated
Daniel Schrieber was looking to duplicate his buddy Bertrand Grospellier's success here at the Bellagio but ran his pocket tens into Matt Giannetti's pocket jacks. The board offered no help and Schreiber was eliminated from the tournament.
Allen Cunningham Suffers a Cooler
Allen Cunningham was all in holding pocket kings, but Benjamin Straate had him crushed with pocket aces. The board failed to give Cunningham any help and he was eliminated in 48th place. After the hand, Straate was nearing the chip lead with 1.2 million.
Nam Le Makes His Exit
After doubling up Yehuda Yerushalaim, Nam Le was short and looking for help. He eventually got it in with A 9 against Hunter Frey's pocket fours. Frey's fours held and Le was eliminated from the tournament.
Mark Teltscher Doubles Up Huge
Mark Teltscher got in a series of preflop raises against Benjamin Straat and found out that his jacks were well ahead of his opponent's A-10 offsuit. The jack on the flop gave him the massive pot of 800,000 and brought Straate back down to earth with about 1 million in chips.
Left In the Deck:
By the way, it's currently snowing on the strip here in Las Vegas.
Tim Bullard limps on the button and Mark Teltscher raises 50,000 more from the big blind. Bullard then makes it 150,000.
Teltscher thinks for a bit before moving all in for about 480,000. Bullard calls with KJ but is dominated by Teltscher's AK.
The flop comes Q94 and Bullard picks up more outs with a gutshot straight draw. The turn is the 3 and Teltscher needs to void a ten or a jack to double up.
The river is the ... J! Bullard takes the pot and the tournament with his pair of jacks.
To his credit, Teltscher takes the bad beat very well and offers a sincere congratulations to his opponent.
On a flop of 887, Mark Teltscher is all in against Michael Mizrachi.
Teltscher shows pocket jacks, but is behind to Mizrachi's A-8 for trips. The turn is the 10, giving Teltscher more outs with a straight draw and the river is the 9, giving him the pot and the double up.
After the hand, Mizrachi was left with 250,000 while Teltscher took an overwhelming chip lead with 700,000.
The first level has just ended and players are breaking so the floor staff can colour up the 25 chips. At the end of the first level of the day the clock reads 78 players left. That's a loss of 31 players or around 30 percent of the field.
Mark Teltscher, at a table with Roland De Wolfe and a short stacked Marty Smyth (4,900 in chips) busted Aliaksandr Marchanka from Belarus, calling his 3,500 or so all in with A-6 and finding Marchanka with K-4 which didn't connect.
Elsewhere Nicolas Levi is another casualty of early play.
Mark Teltscher, from the United Kingdom, has won almost $1.5 million on the European Poker Tour. He has only cashed in 3 EPT events but his results are impressive. During season 2 he won the Grosvenor World Masters in London and earned about half a million dollars. He closed that season out with an 11th place finish in the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. During season 4 he was the runner up in the Barcelona Open and walked away with about $900,000. Teltscher’s most recent tournament cash took place in Australia when he finished 2nd to Howard Lederer in the $100,000 buy-in no limit event and made $572,000.
We picked up the action on the turn, with a board reading KQJ10. Hevad Khan bets and Mark Teltscher thinks for a long while before making the call.
The river is the 2 and Khan splashes in a bet of just under 15,000. Teltscher responds at the weird bet by saying, "I just don't believe you."
After deliberating for another couple of minutes, Teltscher throws in his chips and sees the bad news. Khan rolls over 98 for the straight flush, and Teltscher says, "Oh, is that all? Nice bet on the river." Khan thanks him and quietly stacks his chips up to around the 55,000 mark. Teltscher is left looking at the void of chips in front of him.
Mark Teltscher, former PokerStars.comEPT winner and second place finisher earlier this year in Barcelona was knocked back to 4,075 in chips after getting into some trouble with aces against a flopped set on a raggy, un-cordinated board.
The floor was called as Teltscher confidently threw 7,000 in chips into the pot on the turn.
It was 4,375 to him but he didn’t announce all-in and claimed that his bet obviously was meant to put his opponent all-in. After a minor kerfuffle the floor ruled that the raise would stand and his opponent confidently threw over 8-8 and with one on the flop and no ace on the river, Teltscher looked rueful while his opponent let out a yelp of delight.
Phil Ivey watched on impassively during the commotion as did father and son Peter and Josh Gould who are sat opposite each other at the table.
Mark Teltscher, from the United Kingdom, has won almost $1.5 million on the European Poker Tour. He has only cashed in 3 EPT events but his results are impressive. During season 2 he won the Grosvenor World Masters in London and earned about half a million dollars. He closed that season out with an 11th place finish in the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. During season 4 he was the runner up in the Barcelona Open and walked away with about $900,000. Teltscher’s most recent tournament cash took place in Australia when he finished 2nd to Howard Lederer in the $100,000 buy-in no limit event and made $572,000.
Ryan Fair was the unfortunate "bubble boy" in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Event. Mark "The Engergizer" Teltscher raised to $4,800 from middle position during hand-for-hand play. Ryan Fair thought for a bit before calling in the big blind. The flop came down 9 9 4 and Fair checked. Teltscher sloppily bet out $7,000 and Fair went into the tank. By this time, all the action around the room had halted as this was the final table playing in the event before the next hand was dealt. Fair decided to push all in for $27,000 total, making it $20,000 for Teltscher to call. Now more and more players, including Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, crowded around the table as Teltscher had a tough decision to make. With the eyes of roughly three dozen short stacks watching him Teltscher made the call after five minutes of deliberation. Fair casually showed his 5 5, and the table assumed they were good, especially after how anguished Teltscher appeared when deciding. Even, Greg "FBT" Mueller, who was seated next to Teltscher, assumed he had A-K. But Teltscher showed 7 7, and was far in the lead. The turn and river came down 9 K, and Fair was eliminated. The announcement came over the system that the bubble had burst and the remaining 300 or so players burst into a mini-celebration, before being ushered back to their tables to keep playing on.
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Zolotow Teaches The Professor The Art Of The Moustache
8
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Barry Greenstein Doubles Up, But Busts Later
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Mark Teltscher Runs Into Aces
Dan O'Brien Eliminated
Tim Vance Starts The Day With a Bust
Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber Eliminated
Nam Le Makes His Exit
Tim Bullard limps on the button and Mark Teltscher raises 50,000 more from the big blind. Bullard then makes it 150,000.
On a flop of 8
We picked up the action on the turn, with a board reading K
Mark Teltscher, from the United Kingdom, has won almost $1.5 million on the European Poker Tour. He has only cashed in 3 EPT events but his results are impressive. During season 2 he won the Grosvenor World Masters in London and earned about half a million dollars. He closed that season out with an 11th place finish in the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. During season 4 he was the runner up in the Barcelona Open and walked away with about $900,000. Teltscher’s most recent tournament cash took place in Australia when he finished 2nd to Howard Lederer in the $100,000 buy-in no limit event and made $572,000.