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Day 2
As we get closer to the bubble, 337 players will become more conservative. The order to "Shuffle Up
And Deal!" was given and everyone went to work in the Amazon room. Blinds were at 600/1200 with a
100 ante. Players began doubling and growing their stacks. Shawn Deeb doubled up twice early on to
have a stack of 80K chips 45 minutes into the action. After the bubble burst, players were going
out at the rate of 1 per minute.
Seen heading to the cashier's cage were Joe Tehan, Trond Eidsvig, Alex Jacob, Lee Childs,
Sorel Mizzi, Brandon Cantu and Quinn Do after his opponent hit a King high flush on the turn. Then
misfortune placed its touch on Shawn Deeb and he lost all his chips in two hands! Oh well, next
event Shawn.
But not everyone was on the losing end of things. At the end of the day there were 33 left in the field.
Names like Francois Safieddine (215,000 chips), Philip Sousa (278,000 chips), Tom Koral (286,000) and
Jason Riesenberg (318,000) will be at the tables to keep things hopping. Here are the top 9 with counts:
Day 3 -- Final Table
This should be a wild day as there will be 33 players here to compete for the championship and
the gold bracelet. Play continued at level 20 with blinds at 8,000/16,000 and ante of 2,000, just a few minutes
after 1:00 PM. Big pots quickly moved players into the 1 million chip area. Kam Low, Walter Wright,
and Jim McClain did this in the first hour of play. Two hours into the action there were only 18 left
with just 9 to go. When we got down to 10 players, there were two of them with over 2 million in
chips, namely Travis Johnson 2,050,000 and Craig McConville 2,470,000. The 10th player to go was
Jacob Kalb who took his pocket J's all-in preflop and was called by Craig McConville with A K suited.
The flop showed K K 3 and another 3 on the turn, giving Craig a full house and the rest of Jacob's chips.
After dinner break it was time to go back to the table. Kam Low went out in 9th place, losing to the
set of Queens belonging to Travis Johnson. Next hand it was James McClain in 8th, after being set
straight (Queen high that is) by Mark Salinaro. Walter Wright ended his bracelet quest in 7th due to
the pocket 5's of Travis Johnson. In 6th place was Brian McInnis, taking home a six figure payout
for his efforts in this event. For a 5th place finish was Craig McConville who went from over 3.1 million chips to zip after
receiving the thumbs down from the hand of fate. The man who could not lose, started hemorrhaging chips
only to have the last of his stack go to Travis Johnson. That put Travis over the 5 million mark at this final table.
Mark Salinaro had his pocket 7's put to sleep by the paired Kings belonging to Steve Karp for a 4th
place finish for Mark. Then Mike Ciotola ended up in 3rd after seeing the paired Aces of Travis
Johnson.
It was time for heads up between Travis Johnson with 10,000,000 chips and Steve Karp having 2,500,000. After 45 minutes
of Johnson pressuring Karp at every opportunity, the winning hand came. Karp raised and Johnson moved
all-in at which Karp instantly called. Karp produced pocket 5's and Johnson has A Q. The flop was
K 10 4, turn card a Q and the river card a J, giving Johnson a Broadway straight and the gold bracelet!
Travis Johnson