Short stack, Alex Rocha just got knocked out in 14th when he ran his pocket 8’s into Michael Wadlow’s pocket K’s. Congratulations on back to back deep runs in the return of the Big stax series!
Mike Hager just moved all in pre-flop in an already 3-bet pot for 540k and called by Joe Tatarski.
Hager: 1010
Tatarski: KQ
The board ran out J high and Hager’s 10’s held up to double up his stack.
The last of the day 2 chip leaders, AG Gordon was just eliminated in 15th place. Gordon almost didn’t play this weekend, he tells us that it was his birthday, and he ended up being the day 2 chip leader. John Malczan and Gordon were heads up on the turn of a Q9710 board. Malczan checked, Gordon bet 125k, Malczan raised to 300K, Gordon tanked for a few minutes then went all in for a little more, and called quickly by Malczan.
Gordon: 68 for a 10 high straight
Malczan KJ for the nut straight to win the hand and knock out Gordon in 15th place for $7,226
15 players have returned for the final day of the Big Stax 1500. The top 3 in chips happened to redraw right in a row on table 10 seats 2,3, & 4. Below are their start of the day chip counts:
Last Name First Name Chip Count Table Seat
Malczan John 950,000 11 1
Gordon Arnaldo 730,000 11 2
Tatarski Joe 2,215,000 11 3
Cherry Dave 1,100,000 11 4
Lerner Steven 760,000 11 5
Han Boyuan 635,000 11 6
Hager Michael 670,000 11 7
Grabel Kevin 1,950,000 11 8
Huynh Kenny 1,230,000 10 1
Wadlow Michael 2,745,000 10 2
Klein Robert 3,065,000 10 3
Weinstein Scott 2,660,000 10 4
Charette Duff 1,655,000 10 5
Chen Kaiwen 2,080,000 10 7
Rocha Alex 505,000 10 8
The final 15 players have completed play for the day and are now bagging their chips for day 3. Play will resume at noon.
Place Name $ Hometown
| 16 | Michael | Lavin | $5,843 | Beverly, NJ |
| 17 | Chan | Kim | $5,843 | Horsham, PA |
Kevin Grabel raised pre flop to 60K, Chan Kim moved all in for 600k, and Grabel called.
Kim:99
Grabel:AA
Board runs out clean for Grabel to hold and eliminate Kim in 17th place for $5,843.
The field is down to 16 players and the final 2 tables are now re-drawing for new seats.
Join the Parx poker room tomorrow at 1pm for a special one day $500+50+500 purple chip bounty tournament. In addition to the prize pool, for every player knocked out, the winning player will win a $500 bounty off the losing player. Players will start with 25,000 in chips and the levels will be 40 minutes in length. Late entry will be open until the beginning of level 7.
