Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
The remaining 118 players are now on their 45-minute dinner break. Play will resume at 6:49 p.m and the plan is to play down to a winner.
The Return - A Borgata Championship Event
$2,200 Mystery Bounty Event ($1,000,000 in Guaranteed Bounties)
Day: 2
Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Lisa Pickell was all in with the 
which was ahead of the 
of Raymond Tetsoshvili.
But the flop came 
to put Pickell on the brink of elimination. The turn was the 
and the river the 
to send her away as Tetsoshvili celebrated collecting his first bounty which he immediately went to go draw before even stacking his new chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
185,000
-31,000
|
-31,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
On the stone money bubble, Day 1b chip leader Soukha Kachittavong opened to 28,000 from under the gun and Zachary Daily three-bet to 58,000 in the small blind. Kachittavong called.
Daily bet 60,000 on the flop of 
and Kachittavong called. Daily then moved all in for around 110,000 on the 
turn and Kachittavong called.
Zachary Daily: 
Soukha Kachittavong: 
Before the cards were flipped, Daily asked his opponent if he had a six. Kachittavong said yes and asked "queens," to which Daily replied with a glum "yep."
"You still have outs," Kachittavong. "A queen could come. Do you have the queen of clubs?"
"Nope," Daily replied after checking his cards.
The 
then bricked off on the river and a visibly flustered Daily hit the rail as the floor announced that the remaining players had reached the money.
From the next table over, Nick Palma lamented that the money bubble had burst so quickly.
"Y'all are lucky!" Palma told his table mates. "I was about to run a clinic on y'all during that bubble!"
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000
595,000
|
595,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Hand-for-hand play has begun with 131 players remaining. The field needs just one more elimination to happen before every other player is in the money.
Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Jeremy Pappano was all in for 339,000 against a shorter-stacked opponent and another who had him covered.
Opponent 1: 
Jeremy Pappano:
Opponent 2: 
"I guess I'm behind," the player with eights said glumly.
The flop of 
was no help to Pappano and he stood from his seat in anticipation of busting out. Right on time, the dealer then put down the 
to give him the lead and nothing changed on the 
turn to win him the huge pot and send one opponent to the rail.
"The fake-out did it!" a table mate said before giving Pappano a fist-bump.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
750,000
668,600
|
668,600 |
Level 19
: Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
The board read 
on the river. Dave Stefanski slid out 46,000 into a pot of about 80,000. His opponent thought it over for a while before he called.
Stefanski showed the 
for two pair and gathered the pot as his opponent mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
185,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Naichang Chen was in middle position in a heads-up pot against the cutoff on a flop of 
.
Chen bet around 25,000 on the flop and the cutoff called. The turn brought the and Chen moved all in for 166,000. The opponent asked for a count but then folded 
face-up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
240,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Christopher Odle raised to 20,000 from the hijack, The cutoff called. Constantine Bogiatzis three-bet to about 80,000 from the small blind. Odle thought a few moments when it was back on him before announcing all in. The cutoff quickly folded and Bogiatzis called.
Odle had the 
while Bogiatzis was trailing with the 
in the massive pot, likely one of the largest of the tournament this far.
The flop came 
. The turn was the and the river was the 
with neither player holding a club and Odle gained the huge pot of over 800,000 to move himself toward the top of the counts, while Bogiatzis was knocked down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
890,000
732,900
|
732,900 |
|
405,000
-435,000
|
-435,000 |
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
||
|
600,000
-130,000
|
-130,000 |
|
520,000
142,000
|
142,000 |
|
400,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
300,000
188,000
|
188,000 |
|
||
|
300,000
121,200
|
121,200 |
|
|
200,000
117,600
|
117,600 |
|
145,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |