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Buy-In: $5,000
Prize Pool: $3,199,200
Entrants: 688

$5,000 Main Event $2 Million GTD

  • Jul 17, '17 - Jul 22, '17
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Updates on Final Day (Jul 22, 17)

 
 

Gomez Survives All-In

Gomez had A-8 suited and Hoefer had A-9 off suit, and all the money went in preflop. The board ran out K-10-2-J-A, giving both players the same five-card hand.

Player Tags: Javier Gomez
 

Jacobson Drops A Few

Martin Jacobson

Martin Jacobson is down to about 3.8 million after losing a few pots here after the blinds were raised. Action is still three-handed with $135,000 going to the winner.

Player Tags: Martin Jacobson
 

Blinds Doubled!

They players have agreed to play 100K-200K instead of 50K-100K.

 

Players Have Chopped, But Are Still Playing For $135,000

The final three have agreed to do a “save” but will now play for $135,000 (10 percent of the remaining prize money that goes to 1, 2 and 3).

Here’s a look at payouts after the deal:

Hoefer: $393,621
Jacobson: $398,303
Gomez: $426,349

 

Players Are Talking Deal

The clock has been paused to discuss making a deal. Here are the current chip counts:

Hoefer: 5.175 million
Gomez: 6.67 million
Jacobson: 5.32 million

 

Yan Shing Tsang Eliminated In 4th ($220,745)

Yan Shing Tsang

Javier Gomez opened on the button and Yan Shing Tsang shoved for less than 1 million from the small blind. Jacobson folded. Gomez made the call with AClub Suit6Heart Suit and he was against against KClub Suit3Club Suit.

Tsang and Gomez saw the board run out 7Diamond Suit6Diamond Suit5Club Suit7Club SuitQDiamond Suit, giving Gomez the hand and sending Tsang to the rail. The three remaining players began three-handed play basically even in chips (17.2 million in play).

Player Tags: Yan Shing Tsang
 

Hoefer Wins A Big One

Javier Gomez raised to 210,000 from the cutoffand Paul Hoefer made the call from the big blind.

The flop brought the 10Diamond Suit9Spade Suit3Spade Suit and Hoefer check-called 250,000. The 5Spade Suit hit the turn and Hoefer checked again. Gomez bet 625,000 and Hoefer again called.

The river was the 4Diamond Suit and Hoefer checked again. Gomez checked behind and Hoefer showed the KSpade Suit7Spade Suit for a flush. Gomez mucked and fell to 5,400,000 while Hoeffer chipped up to 4,900,000.

Player Tags: Paul Hoefer
 

Jacobson Doubles Hoefer

Jacobson opened to 225,000 from UTG and Hoefer shoved from the button for 1.6 million. It was folded back to Jacobson and he insta-called with AClub SuitQClub Suit. Hoefer was behind with KHeart SuitQDiamond Suit. The board ran out KSpade Suit5Diamond Suit3Heart Suit10Diamond Suit8Spade Suit to give Hoefer the double. Jacobson was down to about 5 million. Hoefer obviously had about double what he moved in for, so he was sitting with more than 3 million.

Player Tags: Martin Jacobson,   Paul Hoefer
 

Level 32

Blinds are up to 50,000-100,000 with an ante of 10,000 for level 32.

 

Chip Counts At The Break

Rank Player Chip Count
1 Martin Jacobson 6,700,000
2 Javier Gomez 4,550,000
3 Paul Hoefer 2,800,000
4 Yan Shing Tsang 2,100,000
 
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