$1,500 Main Event Day 2 | 2024 Champions Club Winter Poker Open

02-18-2024 14:02 UTC-5

The Five-Bet Jam from Staats

Kirk Brown

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Randall Brooks opened to 23,000 and was then three-bet by Chris Staats to 60,000. When action folded back to him, Brooks then put in the cold four-bet to 115,000, but Staats responded with the five-bet jam, covering Brooks.

Brooks then went into the tank for a good while, as he would be risking his tournament life.

"You got the goods?" he asked Staats, who did not give any response, "The five-bet is pretty strong."

After another thirty seconds, Brooks decided to let it go and the pot was pushed over to Staats for a nice pickup.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Staats	722,000 382,000	382,000
Randall Brooks	372,000 -71,000	-71,000

Tags: Chris Staats Randall Brooks

02-18-2024 14:22 UTC-5

Sundara Shoves and Shows the Ace-High

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Kirk Brown

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

On a multi-way flop of Q♠8♠4♣, Brad Ruben led for 41,000 and was called by Ravee Sundara and Tai Vo to see the turn fall the 10♦.

Ruben then decided to slow down and check, at which point Sundara moved all in for around 550,000, forcing a fold from both opponents.

He then shows A♠6♠ for the nut flush draw, but essentially just ace-high, and David Shaw lets the surrounding tables know...

"Oh man, Sunny's all in on his first hand with ace-high!"

Sundara just smiled as he collected the pot to put his stack over 900,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tai Vo	1,100,000 -90,000	-90,000

Ravee Sundara	935,000 107,000	107,000
Brad Ruben	550,000 67,000	67,000

Tags: Brad Ruben David Shaw Ravee Sundara Tai Vo

02-18-2024 14:32 UTC-5

First Break

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Kirk Brown

Level 17 : Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

The players remaining in the Main Event are now on their first 15-minute break of the day and will return to battle shortly.

Level: 18

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

02-18-2024 14:56 UTC-5

Big Stacks After Break

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Charles Sinn	2,400,000 530,000	530,000
Kassim Panjwani	1,980,000 -357,000	-357,000

Jacob Daniels	1,480,000 742,000	742,000
Adam Hendrix	1,470,000 70,000	70,000

Charles Dawson	1,300,000 100,000	100,000
Tony Bunch	1,250,000 508,000	508,000
Salman Lakhani	1,250,000 531,000	531,000
Jessica Richards	1,240,000 34,000	34,000
Ryan Griffiths	1,200,000 596,000	596,000
Jerry Yen	1,160,000 474,000	474,000
Michael Moyer	1,120,000 49,000	49,000
Tai Vo	1,062,000 -38,000	-38,000

02-18-2024 15:06 UTC-5

Trevino Moves In

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

On a heads-up flop of K♣3♦Q♥, there was already over 300,000 in the middle when Jason Fitzpatrick bet 88,000 after a check from Cedrric Trevino.

Trevino then responded by check-raising all in, which resulted in a hasty fold from Fitzpatrick.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cedrric Trevino	910,000 46,000	46,000

Jason Fitzpatrick	495,000 101,000	101,000

Tags: Cedrric Trevino Jason Fitzpatrick

02-18-2024 15:24 UTC-5

Champlin Shoves on Chlouber

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Albert Chlouber opened to 27,000 from the button and was called by Richard Fink in the small blind, but then Spencer Champlin three-bet to 127,000. Ony Chlouber called and the two went heads-up tp a flop of 7♦7♥3♠, which saw a bet of 80,000 from Champlin and a call from Chlouber.

On the 9♦ turn, Champliin thought for a good 30 seconds before he announced all in, and Chlouber also went into the tank to think about this one. After a few moments, he tossed his hand into the middle and the pot was awarded to Champlin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Spencer Champlin	875,000 405,000	405,000
Albert Chlouber	370,000 -40,000	-40,000

Tags: Albert Chlouber Richard Fink Spencer Champlin

02-18-2024 15:57 UTC-5

Burchfield Busts with Kings

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Kirk Brown

Level 18 : Blinds 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

After an open to 25,000 and a call from Ghadi Akari, short-stacked Kris Burchfield raised to all but one chip. The original raiser folded and Akari moved all in, to force that last chip into play, which Burchfield quickly tossed in to put himself at risk.

Kris Burchfield: K♠K♣
Ghadi Akari: 9♥10♥

Burchfield was in a great spot to double here with his kings, but the flop of 3♦6♥7♥ was not ideal as it gave Akari a ton of outs with a straight and flush combo draw.

The turn 5♣ was safe, but the river A♥ was the dagger that gave Akari a flush and Burchfield was sent to the payout desk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ghadi Akari	610,000 219,000	219,000
Kris Burchfield	Busted

Tags: Ghadi Akari Kris Burchfield

Level: 19

Blinds: 8,000/1,600

Ante: 1,600

02-18-2024 16:17 UTC-5

Recent Eliminations

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Kirk Brown

Level 19 : Blinds 8,000/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Casey Brown	Busted
William Berry	Busted
Mahdi Jalil	Busted
James Temple	Busted
Drake Roetker	Busted
Kanishak Sethi	Busted
Greg Raymer	Busted

Chezz Romero	Busted
James Rone	Busted
Thai Ha	Busted

Karthick Tamilselvam	Busted
Philip Chow	Busted
Joseph Schneider	Busted
Will Benson	Busted
Jeffrey Nowling	Busted

Jason Faircloth	Busted
Nicolas Trevino	Busted