2009 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas

$5,150 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2009 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
$237,692
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,000
Entries
187
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
20,000 / 40,000
Ante
4,000

Break

The players are on break for an undisclosed amount of time. Justin Bonomo is going to color up some chips during the break while everyone else does what they do.

Dwyte Pilgrim Eliminated in 6th Place ($44,848)

Dwyte Pilgrim
Dwyte Pilgrim
Dwyte Pilgrim won't score back-to-back victories today. Pilgrim, the winner of the WSOP Circuit event in Rincon, played tough all day, but just couldn't get anything going.

His tournament ended when he shoved preflop with ace-king and got called by Justin Bonomo, who held pocket jacks. Pilgrim couldn't connect on a board of {3-Spades} {6-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {4-Spades} {9-Diamonds} and walked away in sixth place. He earned nearly $45,000 for his efforts.

Bonomo, on the other hand, has solidified his chip lead. His two million chips give him a better than 2-to-1 edge over Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi who sits in second with 900,000.

Tags: Dwyte Pilgrim

Gone Quiet... Mostly

Men "The Master" Nguyen
Men "The Master" Nguyen
At six-handed play, the table has gotten very quiet. Except for Men "The Master" Nguyen, who has been steadily drinking Coronas. His game doesn't seem to be loosening up along with his mouth though, and he's still sitting on more than 450,000.

A Very Accomplished Final Six

The final six players we have are an extremely accomplished group of players combined.

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has over $6.5 million in tournament earnings, including multiple cashes in the biggest tournaments around the world. He has two WPT titles and numerous wins on the felt in various events.

Dwyte Pilgrim owns two Circuit championship rings. He won the last WSOP-C event at Rincon and will be looking to go back-to-back. Jeremiah "dantes" DeGreef also holds a Circuit ring from when he won the $2,000 event here at Caesars just a few days ago.

Matt Graham has almost $1 million in tournament earnings along with a WSOP bracelet to his name. He also won an event at the 2008 Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

Justin Bonomo is an excellent player with over $1.5 million in career tournament earnings and a fairly long list of cashes all over the world. Bonomo is an accomplished online player as well.

Last, but not least, is Men "The Master" Nguyen. With over $8 million in tournament winnings and a whopping six WSOP bracelets to his name, Nguyen has the most decorative poker resume out of everyone left in the tournament. He also has four WSOP-C victories and will be going for his fifth here today.

Tags: "dantes""Mattg1983""The Grinder""The Master"Dwyte PilgrimJeremiah DegreefJustin BonomoMatt GrahamMen NguyenMichael Mizrachi

Graham Doubles

Graham - sportin' the guns and now a bigger stack
Graham - sportin' the guns and now a bigger stack
Matt Graham raised to 45,000 from under the gun and action folded over Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi. Mizrachi looked around to study everyone's stack size from the small blind, and then announced that he was all in. As soon as Dwyte Pilgrim folded from the big blind, Graham snap-called.

Showdown:
Graham: {A-Clubs} {K-Diamonds}
Mizrachi: {K-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}

The flop came down {9-Diamonds} {8-Spades} {5-Spades}. The turn was the {A-Spades} and Graham clapped his hands together, but made sure to double check to see if The Grinder held a spade. The river was the meaningless {2-Clubs}.

Graham had a total of 330,000 chips and is now a little over double that.

Tags: "The Grinder"Matt GrahamMichael Mizrachi

Jack Schanbacher Eliminated in 7th Place ($35,878)

Jack Schanbacher
Jack Schanbacher
Jack Schanbacher raised to 42,000 from the cutoff and was immediately reraised to 110,000 by Justin Bonomo on the button. The action circled back to Schanbacher, who shipped all in for 600,000 and Bonomo made the snap-call.

Schanbacher showed {7-Spades} {7-Diamonds} and was behind Bonomo's {K-Spades} {K-Diamonds}. The board of {5-Hearts} {3-Diamonds} {9-Diamonds} {3-Spades} {5-Clubs} offered no help, and Schanbacher left the table with a seventh-place finish worth $35,878.

The hand brought Bonomo's chip stack to over 1.2 million.

Pilgrim Doubles Through Bonomo

Dwyte Pilgrim raised to 50,000 from early position and action folded over to Justin Bonomo. Bonomo reraised to 145,000. When action got back to Dwyte, he put all his chips into the middle and Bonomo quickly called.

Bonomo tabled {A-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds} and Pilgrim held {5-Diamonds} {5-Hearts}. Bonomo failed to improve and Pilgrim was able to double up for 250,000 total. He now has over 500,000 in chips.

Tags: Dwyte PilgrimJustin Bonomo

Updated Chip Counts

Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi - 1,140,000
Justin Bonomo - 970,000
Jack Schanbacher - 800,000
Jeremiah DeGreef - 500,000
Men "The Master" Nguyen - 480,000
Matt Graham - 375,000
Dwyte Pilgrim - 350,000

Nashaat "Tony" Antonious Eliminated in 8th ($29,151)

Nashaat "Tony" Antonious - 8th Place
Nashaat "Tony" Antonious - 8th Place
Right after the last bust-out, there was some more big action.

Nashaat "Tony" Antonious raised to 50,000 before Jack Schanbacher reraised to 140,000. Action was back on Antonious and he moved all in for about 400,000. Schanbacher made the call.

Schanbacher turned over pocket jacks and Antonious revealed Big Slick, {A-Hearts} {K-Spades}. The board ran out {Q-Clubs} {8-Diamonds} {4-Clubs} {9-Hearts} {7-Clubs} and that was it for Antonious. He took home just under $30,000 for his eighth-place finish.

Tags: Jack SchanbacherNashaat Antonious

Evgeny Serebryakov Eliminated in 9th Place ($24,666)

Evgeny Serebryakov
Evgeny Serebryakov
Evgeny Serebryakov's squeeze play didn't work the way he hoped.

After Justin Bonomo called Matt Graham's 42,000 preflop raise, Serebryakov shoved from the big blind for a total of 328,000. Graham folded and Bonomo tanked for almost a minute before reluctantly making the call and turning up {K-Clubs} {Q-Clubs}, while Serebryakov showed {2-Clubs} {3-Diamonds}.

When the board ran out {7-Clubs} {10-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {4-Hearts} {10-Clubs}, Bonomo took the pot and Serebryakov exited in ninth place with a payday of $24,666.