Event #3 is now over after the final three players made a deal. Francis Fan took the win and $6,295 while Jason Ross got second for $5,000. Darcy McDonald ended third but with a slightly bigger stack than Ross, he got $5,200 from the deal.
Level 20: 10000/15000/15000 (PLO)
Entries: 3/101
Level 20 is just beginning and the final three players are moving back to four-card poker.
Level 19: 6000/12000/12000 (NLH)
Entries: 3/101
Ali Khani opened under the gun to 27k and he was called by all three other players for a family pot to the flop of 
. It checked to Khani and he bet 32k. Darcy McDonald and Francis Fan both called while Jason Ross got out of the way.
The 
turn set things off with Fan shoving and Khani reshoving with more. McDonald got out of the way, and it was Khani with a set of tens against the flush draw for Fan with 
.
Fan called for the diamond and it came 
on the river to give him the huge double and leave Khani with about 250k. It went in the next hand and he was pipped with eights against the nines of Darcy McDonald. It was nice revenge for McDonald as he said he folded the ace-high flush draw on the turn after the two all-ins.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Fan |  |
800,000 | 634,000 |
| Darcy McDonald | |
650,000 | 300,000 |
| Ali Khani | |
0 | 0 |
Level 18: 5000/10000/10000 (PLO)
Entries: 4/101
The PLO round is nearing the end now and they are down to four players. Jason Ross raised to 30k under the gun Leo Zhang woke up with ace-ace-king-eight in the big blind and shoved for 97k. Ross called with ace-queen-ten-three with two spades and he turned the flush to send Zhang home in 5th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Ross | |
350,000 | 38,000 |
| Leo Zhang | |
0 | 0 |
Level 18: 5000/10000/10000 (PLO)
Entries: 5/101
They are down to just five players left now as Ogie Orian hit the rail in sixth place. I missed the action as I was in the washroom, but he collected $2,080 to go with the $990 he won earlier today in Day 2 of event #2.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogelio Orian | |
0 | 0 |
Level 18: 5000/10000/10000 (PLO)
Entries: 6/101
Shortly after the PLO restarted, Ray Balante was all in against Ali Khani and Khani turned him dead with a straight. Balante picked up #,##0","3":1},"12":0}">$1,660 for 7th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
760,000 | 75,000 |
| Ray Balante | |
0 | 0 |
Level 18: 5000/10000/10000 (PLO)
Entries: 7/101
In the final hand of Level 17, Brady O'hara shoved and Darcy McDonald called it off with more. O'hara was playing pocket kings against ace-king for McDonald, but he couldn't fade the ace on the river and he hit the cage for $1,250.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darcy McDonald | |
350,000 | 121,000 |
| Brady O'hara | |
0 | 0 |
Level 17: 4000/8000/8000 (NLH)
Entries: 9/101
Harpreet Padda has been nursing a short stack since before the final table convened, but he finally looked down at ace-ten of clubs and shipped his stack. Ali Khani flat-called and the two were off to see five.
Harpreet Padda: 
Ali Khani: 
Khani flopped a flush draw and rivered a king to decisively take the hand and send Padda to the rail in 9th,
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
685,000 | 225,000 |
| Harpreet Padda | |
0 | 0 |
Level 17: 4000/8000/8000 (NLH)
Entries: 9/101
Ali Khani opened the betting from the middle making it 18k to go. Brady O'hara shoved for 60k from his immediate left and they were off to see the board.
O'hara had the best with ace-queen of diamonds against queen-jack of hearts and the ace held to give O'hara the double. After the hand, Harpreet Padda, who had tank-folded pre, said he also had ace-queen.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
460,000 | 103,000 |
| Brady O'hara | |
158,000 | 80,000 |
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
563,000 | 0 |
| Jason Ross | |
388,000 | 0 |
| Darcy McDonald | |
229,000 | 0 |
| Ray Balante | |
202,000 | 0 |
| Rogelio Orian | |
194,000 | 0 |
| Francis Fan | |
166,000 | 0 |
| Leo Zhang | |
110,000 | 0 |
| Harpreet Padda | |
90,000 | 0 |
| Brady O'hara | |
78,000 | 0 |
Level 16: 3000/6000/6000 (PLO)
Entries: 10/101
They are now in the money with 10 players left after Stephen Dauphinais hit the rail in 11th place on the bubble. The money went in blind on blind against Rogelio "Ogie" Orian on the turn of a board reading 
.
Dauphinais was on trip deuces, but Ogie had the boat with a ten-deuce in his hand. Dauphinais called for a jack to give him a better boat, but the river bricked for him and he was on his way home on the bubble.
Level 16: 3000/6000/6000 (PLO)
Entries: 11/101
They are still on the bubble for the start of Level 16 after the two short stacks, Stephen Dauphinais on Table 5 and Harpreet Padda on Table 7, were both all in at risk on the final hand of the two-card Level 15.
Dauphinais had aces and held for the double, while Padda was on a bigger ace and held against Leo Zhang's dominated hand.
Level 15: 2500/5000/5000 (NLH)
Entries: 11/101
They are down to 11 players left now, on the bubble to the money after the exit of David Chau. He was very short with just 22.5k in front of him and he shoved the button, getting calls from Darcy McDonald and Leo Zhang in the blinds.
The flop was and McDonald bet 25k to force Zhang out of the hand. He hit the ace with 
and Chau was drawing thin with 
. The 
turn and river just made things worse for Chau, and he hit the rail on the soft bubble in 12th place.
They are now hand-for-hand to the money.
Level 15: 2500/5000/5000 (NLH)
Entries: 12/101
They are now just two off the money after the recent exits of Brad Stevens and Chris Clayton. Level 15 is now just over halfway finished.
Level 15: 2500/5000/5000 (NLH)
Entries: 14/101
Julius Roque just hit the rail in 15th place leaving them four from the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Roque | |
0 | 0 |
Level 14: 2000/4000/4000 (PLO)
Entries: 15/101
Ali Khani limped early and that set off a chain that saw five people to the flop of 
. It checked to Khani and he fired 24k, which cleared out one player before Benny Sarnelli shoved for 50.5k.
That got the hand two-ways as Khani made the call with a flopped set of queens, but he was looking for the board to pair as he was against Sarnelli's flopped flush. The board ran out to five diamonds, leaving Khani to pay off the double.
After the hand, Dary McDonald said he folded the straight flush diamonds.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
220,000 | 20,000 |
| Benny Sarnelli | |
120,000 | 0 |
Level 14: 2000/4000/4000 (PLO)
Entries: 15/101
Shariq Khan was unable to spin his stack back after he ran into Julius Roque's big slick. He got his money in good in the four-card round, but Darcy McDonald hit a straight to kick him to the rail. There have also been two other eliminations to bring the game down to 15 players left, 5 off the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shariq Khan | |
0 | 0 |
Level 13: 1500/3000/3000 (NLH)
Entries: 18/101
Harpreet Padda raised the button to 6,000, but then had to get out of the way when Shariq Khan shoved the small blind and Julius Roque called with less from the big.
Roque was in good shape with ace-king against ace-nine and held for the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julius Roque | |
85,000 | 0 |
| Shariq Khan | |
20,000 | 0 |
Level 13: 1500/3000/3000 (NLH)
Entries: 18/101
They are down to 18 players left on two tables now, just 8 players off the money. It looks like Leo Zhang has taken over the lead now with around 270k while Ali Khani is down to about 240k.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leo Zhang | |
270,000 | 30,000 |
| Ali Khani | |
240,000 | 7,000 |
Level 13: 1500/3000/3000 (NLH)
Entries: 19/101
After a quick look around the room on break, it looks like Ali Khani has the lead right now with just under 250k. Leo Zhang isn't far behind, however, with 240k.
| Player | Chips | Progress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Khani | |
247,000 | 0 |
| Leo Zhang | |
240,000 | 0 |
| Rogelio 'Ogie' Orian | |
170,000 | 0 |
| Francis Fan | |
140,000 | 0 |
| Brady O'hara | |
135,000 | 0 |
Level 12: 1500/2500/2500 (PLO)
Entries: 22/101
The official numbers are in and they are playing for $28,785 in total prizes today in Event #3. The winner is set to get $7,815 and a total of 10 players will get a piece of the prizes.
Level 12 has just begun and they are playing four-card poker for this level. There are 22 players left in the game now and there will be a break following this level. Payouts are listed in the image above and can also be found on the Payouts link.
The Mixed game is now on dinner with the end of Level 8. Calen "Big Wheel" McNeil just made the "lucky number 100" buy in make this the first single-day field of 100 or more for this series.
There is just over an hour left to get into the Mixed NLH/PLO game with action now in Level 7 (NLH) and the field is now sitting at 93 entries for $26,505 in prizes at the moment. Entries are open throughout Level 8 and will close after the dinner break following that level, at around 8 pm.
They are up to 75 entries in the half and half game with 50 players still in the action. Level 5 is about halfway finished and players have until about 8 pm to buy into the game.
Level 3 is nearly complete in the Mixed game today with 57 entries on the board and 50 players still alive at the felt. They'll play one more level of PLO after this one before their first break of the day, and then return for four more levels of poker before dinner and the end of entries.
Level 2 has just begun in the Mixed game and this is the first level with four cards today. The field is up to 37 entries with 36 still alive.
There are 34 players in their seats in Level 1 now in the Mixed NLH/PLO. Entries are open until the end of the dinner break following Level 8 so there are still about 4.5 hours to get into the game.
Updates will be sparse here until later in the day when Event #2 ends, but I'll try to keep the numbers updated at least. I won't be using the blinds for this event as I won't be updating things regularly.
The first of two side events on Saturday kicks off at 3 pm today and will feature alternating rounds of hold'em and PLO. Odd numbered levels will play with two cards while even-numbered levels will play with four cards.
There are 8 levels of entry in this game today with the final chance to enter coming at about 8 pm. This is a one day event so they'll decided a winner before play concludes.
Updates on this game will be sparse until later tonight after Day 2 of Event #2 ends. My focus will be on Event #2 for most of the day, but I should make it over to this one for the final few levels of play.
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