Level 21 (6,000/12,000/2,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 15 Chip Average: 545,000 Immediately after Anthony Mottola hit the rail, John Monahan joined him, as he got his short stack all-in against Joe ‘Worm’ Palma and chip leader John Germano and was unable to find a triple up. That action was picked up pre flop…
Level 21 (6,000/12,000/2,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 16 Chip Average: 480,000 It’s been over an hour since the last elimination mainly because short stacks just refuse to go away. John Manzella was the most recent short stack to catch a life-saving river and when he did, Anthony Mottola was crippled and then eliminated…
Level 21 (6,000/12,000/2,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 17 Chip Average: 480,000 When we updated the chip counts coming back from the dinner break, Abraham Korotki was working just over a 10 big blind stack. Now, with just under a half hour remaining in Level 21, he’s playing close to 650,000 after getting a…
Level 21 (6,000/12,000/2,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 17 Chip Average: 480,000 Two meaningful pots have played out in quick succession nearly 20 minutes into Level 21, with one short stack getting a much needed double up and another shorter stack increasing his standing with a correct hero call. The first hand saw Frank Ingardia move…
Level 21 (6,000/12,000/2,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 17 Chip Average: 480,000 Eliyah Asur returned from the dinner break as one of the shorter stacks remaining in this Player’s Series event but after two quick doubles on Table 2, he’s now playing over the chip average for the first time in recent memory. The…
Level 20 (5,000/10,000/1,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 17 Chip Average: 480,000 After getting crippled right before the two table redraw, Frank Allen battled back and got himself up to a workable ten big blind stack. He didn’t keep that stack for long though, as he just ran pocket queens into Jordan Allan’s pocket…
Level 20 (5,000/10,000/1,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 18 Chip Average: 450,000 The final 18 players have redrawn for their seats at the final two tables and it should be noted that the chip counts, minus those updated in the previous posts, remain similar to those that we updated after the dinner break. Table…
Level 20 (5,000/10,000/1,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 18 Chip Average: 450,000 Two huge hands played out with ace-king taking down ace-queen, with one crippling a player and another sending John Hackbart to the rail in 19th place. The first hand saw Tony Cheng and Frank Allen get it all-in pre flop, with Cheng…
Level 20 (5,000/10,000/1,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 19 Chip Average: 430,000 The first twenty minutes of Level 20 have seen Joe ‘Worm’ Palma get cut down and then recover, bottoming out to a just twenty big blind stack but then quickly getting himself up and over the chip average. The first two meaningful…
Level 20 (5,000/10,000/1,000) Total BPPS Entrants: 272 Players Remaining: 19 Chip Average: 430,000 Even though this field is just one elimination from the two table redraw, the remaining players chip counts returning from the dinner break are provided below: Table 1 Joe Lachiana – 635,000 Anthony Mottola – 214,000 John Germano – 647,000 Tony Cheng…