Action folded around to the blinds where Mark Sleet raised and Matthew Davidow moved all in from the big blind for right around a million. Sleet called and it was on to a showdown.
Mark Sleet:
Matthew Davidow:
The flop came ace high with two hearts so Sleet made top pair while Davidow picked up a flush draw, and the turn was the giving more outs to Davidow, but the river was the and that made trips for Sleet who took down the pot while Davidow was sent to the rail. He will collect $24,777 for his run.
It was a span of two hands that send Dylan Honeyman to the rail. We caught the action on the river of the first pot. There was a bit over a million chips in the pot on a board of and Honeyman was first to act. He checked his option over to Addamo who moved all in with a covering stack. Honeyman tanked for several minutes but eventually decided to release, leaving himself with right around 650,000 left.
On the next hand, Honeyman moved all in from middle position and he was called by Bart Lybaert. Everyone else folded and it was on to a showdown.
Dylan Honeyman:
Bart Lybaert:
The board ran out and that would be the end of Honeyman's tournament run. Lybaert made queens and sevens to take down the pot and for his 15th place finish, Honeyman took home $31,076.
Mike Addamo opened with a raise to 90,000 before Joseph Pietrafesa raised to 300,000 from the small blind. Addamo called and the two took a flop.
The flop was and Pietrafesa instantly moved all in. Addamo snap called and it was off to a showdown.
Mike Addamo:
Joseph Pietrafesa:
The board completed with the and the and that improve Addamo to a full house, giving him the big pot and chipping him up to over six million. Pietrafesa will collect $39,449 for his run. His elimination brings the field down to 11.
Jonas Mackoff raised to 115,000 from the under-the-gun position and Bart Lybaert decided to three-bet to 375,000 from the button. The blinds quickly folded and Mackoff considered his options. Mackoff decided to shove for about 1,900,000. Lybaert snap-called.
Jonas Mackoff:
Bart Lybaert:
The board ran out , no help for Mackoff as he was sent to the rail in 11th place.
The ten remaining players will now be redrawn onto one unofficial final table.
Action folded to Bart Lybaert in the small blind who went all-in. Sameer Aljanedi, who had been nursing a short stack for hours, looked at his cards, and decided to call.
Sameer Aljanedi:
Bart Lybaert:
The board ran out to give Lybaert two pair on the flop before "improving" to a still winning higher two pair on the river. Another elimination for Lybaert and Aljanedi was sent home in tenth place.
The final nine players have now reached the official final table and have bagged and tagged their chips. The players will return at 1 p.m. local time, Friday, June 15, to the feature table in the Brasilia room.
A full chip count will follow and recap of today's action is to follow.
After four long, long days, the field in Event #24: $2,620 THE MARATHON No-Limit Hold'em has been cut down to it's final nine. There were 60 players who started the day but that number was cut in half even before the dinner break hit today. Bagging up the chip lead at the end of the night was Mark Sleet who finished the day with 7,725,000. Sleet caught a flush towards the end of the night to scoop a monster pot from 888poker ambassador and former Main Event champion Martin Jacobson. It would give him the chip lead and he held onto it for just a bit longer to remain the chipleader heading into the final day of play.
Jacobson was really the star of the show today, though, as it seemed the Main Event champ couldn't lose a single pot. On the feature table, Jacobson climbed from 811,000 chips to nearly 10 million over the course of the day. Once the end of the live streamed portion of the day was reached, Jacobson dropped a few pots to drop down to 7,345,000, still good enough to lock up second place for the day.
In one of his biggest pots, Jacobson eliminated Javier Fernandez with aces against ace-king, and later he would eliminated Mike Azzaro with ace-queen on a queen-high flop against Azzaro's ace-king. Those two massive pots earned Jacobson more than four million chips and he would ride out the chip lead over the course of the next few hours.
Plenty more went the way of Azzaro and Fernandez though and headed to the payout desk today. Some of those who didn't make it through the day included Joe Elpayaa (57th - $9,616), Martin Staszko (49th - $11,329), Lee Markholt (48th - $11,329), Matt Affleck (44th - $13,520), Faraz Jaka (35th - $16,340), and Salvatore DiCarlo (20th - $19,997) to name a few.
The first to fall at the start of the day was another 888poker ambassador, Chris Moorman. Moorman got it in good against Matthew Davidow with pocket kings against ace-king, but Davidow made a four flush to send Moorman to the rail. For his 60th place finish, Moorman took home $9,616. Davidow would also meet his end later in the day.
Another former Main Event Champion and poker legend also graced this event with his presence and a deep run as well. The 1998 champion Scotty Nguyen made it as far as 46th place. On his final hand, Nguyen flopped a set of sevens, but Sameer Aljanedi turned a straight with pocket eights. The money got in on the turn and Nguyen didn't improve. He collected $11,329 for his deep run in the event.
After dinner break, it was a race to the final table. The final 27 players were witttled down to just 9 players in a little over two 100-minute levels. Players finished play for the day with one hour and thirty minutes still on the clock in level 25 with blinds at 25,000/50,000 and an ante of 5,000.
Four long days have created a stacked final table and is sporting a lot of poker talent. Some others that will return on Friday include Bart Lybaert, Mike Addamo, Cate Hall, Taylor Paur and Anton Morgenstern. Paur and Jacobson are both seeking a second bracelet for this event while everyone else is looking to lock up their first.
Room
Table
Seat
Player
Chip Count
Big Blinds
Brasilia
FT
1
Michael Addamo
6,165,000
123
Brasilia
FT
2
Martin Jacobson
7,345,000
147
Brasilia
FT
3
Ihar Soika
4,990,000
100
Brasilia
FT
4
Taylor Paur
4,815,000
96
Brasilia
FT
5
Bart Lybaert
7,155,000
143
Brasilia
FT
6
Mark Sleet
7,725,000
155
Brasilia
FT
7
Cate Hall
1,175,000
24
Brasilia
FT
8
Ying Chan
1,725,000
35
Brasilia
FT
9
Anton Morgenstern
1,800,000
36
Players will return to the Brasilia feature table at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 15, where the plan is to play down to a winner. The event will be live streamed with a delay, but you can follow along with the live updates here on PokerNews as well. Make sure to return at 1 p.m. as this is one final table you don't want to miss.