$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Level 15 Recap
Jun 15, '08
Blinds/Antes: 3,000-6,000-500
Players Remaining: 51 of 2,706
Average Chip Stack: 159,000
Chip Leaders:
Richard Alm - 520,000
Phillip Yeh - 400,000
Harold Akiona - 380,000
John Myung - 360,000
Benjamin Zamani - 320,000
Harold Akiona - 320,000
Malyshev Nikolay - 310,000
Ali Salman - 280,000
Aliaksandr Dzianisau - 260,000
Big Hands and Storylines:
Players frustrated by tourney structure
As the players returned from dinner break, many of them discussed the tournament's structure. With the blinds now heading to four and eight thousand, many players have less than 20 big blinds.
Battle goes Akiona's way
A player from early position raised to 17,000 and three players made the call. The flop came 9
74 and Ben Zamani bet 21,000. Harold Akiona raised to 71,000. The other two players got out of the way and Zamani made the call. Both players checked after the 8 on the turn and T
on the river. Akiona showed KQ for the flush, which beat Zamani's pocket nines for a set. After the hand Akiona had roughly 380,000 chips, while Zamani had 350,000 chips.
Gray makes blind call and wins
A player moved all in from middle position for 31,500. It folded to Jason Gray in the big blind, and he asked a couple times how much for him to call. Finally he made the call and flipped over his hand for everyone -- including himself -- to see. He had 7
2, and was up against his opponent's AT
. But a seven and two came on the flop, and he won the pot with two pair. After the hand Gray had ove 150,000 chips.
Player Tags: Jason Gray, Benjamin Zamani, Harold Akiona
